In my childhood, I never though that studying the Universe was something that you could do for a living. I was living in a very small town where the future for a woman was most of the time just to have a family and take care of everyone at home. Fortunately for me, my father is the kind of man that is always looking for opportunities to grow personally and professionally. In my teens, we move from my mother's hometown to the state capital and there was the first time I realize how great science was. My Physics courses full of experiments were the best. One of the experiments I remember most was a raft that we build from scratch using plastic bottles. Our teacher take us to the beach, we put the raft into the water and it actually worked! I was amazed at how something as common as a plastic bottle could be used as a mean of transport just by considering physical laws when we build the raft. From then on I was convinced that physics was something more than a regular high-school class to me and a couple of years later, I enrolled in the school of physics and mathematics to pursue a bachelor degree. Astrophysics will come afterwards, when I had the chance to take some fundamental astronomy courses in my university. I continued my career path to become a professional astronomer by pursuing a PhD in astrophysics which I awarded in 2014.