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Hey everyone, as most of you know, Catera Combs is hosting this month's Cinnamon challenge #ShowMeTalent. This week I got inspired by some new entries added by Riley, Patty and Lego and decided to participate too!

I was born in Brazil and the first time I saw snow was shortly after I moved to the US, I was 34 years old. I had never been to a ski resort until then and the whole Winter & snow concept was all very foreign to me. I grew up in a tropical country and had never owned any heavy Winter gear like gloves, hats and lined coats.

I tried to ski but was not very successful, it's not easy to learn certain skills when you're not exposed to them as a child and Winter sports are definitely in that category. My main issue with skiing was that I wasn't confident I would be able to stop when needed, so I was that type of very tentative skier that moves slow and is kind of in the way of others.

All that changed at age 40 when I decided to try snowboarding. I had to work hard to learn and it wasn't something that I mastered overnight, but I did learn and now it's one of my favorite things to do!

My husband is American and grew up skiing and snowboarding, he is the main reason I was able to learn, he spent hours and hours with me on the mountain patiently teaching me and *very* patiently waiting on me. But all that wait paid off because now we can have lots of fun playing on the snow together.

Enough talking! Let me show a little bit of the snowboarding talent I worked hard for! I also included some footage of moments when things didn't go as planed :–)

https://www.cinnamon.video/watch?v=371875848669627544

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