According to a research made by the Brazilian Ministry of Education in 2013, more than 15 thousand students leave their home state so they can get in college, which corresponds to 13% of the amount of students who use Sisu (United System of Selection), a federal program that offers scholarships. Even though Cásper Líbero University doesn’t participate of this initiative, its reality isn’t very different.
The perfect example for this statement is the apartment located in 620 Paulista Avenue, where Camila, Elisa, Luiza and Roberta live. The Casperian version of Fantastic Four is completely formed by Radio, TV and Internet sophomores, who came from different cities: Camila is from Jundiaí, a city that belongs to the state of São Paulo, like Santos, where Roberta was born and raised. Elisa and Luiza are from different states than the other two girls, coming, respectively, from Varginha, in Minas Gerais, and Vitória, in Espírito Santo.
Camila and Roberta (both from the state of São Paulo) “meditating” at Paulista Avenue
Elisa (from Minas Gerais) and Luiza (from Espirito Santo)
At the beginning of their collegiettes lives, the girls lived apart: Luiza was living with one of her mother’s friends, while Elisa shared an apartment with three unknown women. In opposition, Camila and Roberta were still living with their families, and made daily trips to São Paulo. They were very unhappy about their routines: the trips were exhausting and expensive, and the roommates could be better. In a very short time, Elisa and Luiza started looking for an apartment together and, about a month after they moved in, Roberta joined them. The last one to complete the team was Camila, who came six months later.
The work/internship question was also a decisive point that inflected their choices. “Even if tried to come to São Paulo just for my classes and go back to my city after they’ve ended, there wasn’t an audiovisual market in Jundiaí. Moving out, I’d be close to my work and my college”, says Camila. Besides that, the girls agree that candidates who live far away from what they’re applying to tend to be casted-off from job and internships interviews. “Employers must be afraid that people from other cities don’t have a big time availability”, complemented Elisa.
Since they moved in together, the girls feel like living an eternal party, watching movies, eating junk food and throwing shades on people they don’t like (you know the saying: my friend’s enemy is my enemy). On the other hand, the group also feel that they’ve kind of lost their individuality, but believe it’s a natural thing when you share a home. These crises are solved when Camila and Roberta go visit their families on the weekends, letting the other girls rest and enjoy the silence. “Me and Elisa cross each other at the hallway, say a small ‘good morning’ and that’s that. We stay at our bedrooms, know that the other one is in her room, but simply stay alone and breathe”, says Luiza, laughing. Roberta’s hair loss is another important discussion between them, since it affects the bathroom cleaning and organization and also includes Camila’s supposed hair problems – which she strongly denies.
Girls having pizza
Another problem they used to have was that, since they live so close to the college, lots of their classmates saw their home as a breakpoint. People had lunch, slept and spent their free time at the apartment, and, most of the times, left all the mess for the house owners. “There was a point that we had fifteen unknown toothbrushes in our bathroom. That’s when we decided to control our visitors better”, told Elisa.
The toothbrushes incident
Even if college life has its difficulties, our interviewees found a way to survive: despite Roberta’s hair problems and the unknown toothbrushes, they formed a Casperian family completely made of shades, Nutella and love. And, as every family, they also have their small problems, but nothing that can’t be solved with lots of talk and specific shampoos.
The roomies together at Cásper Líbero’s third floor
They have also shared some pictures of their apartment facilities, where all of the nice facts and stories told in this article happened. Check this out:
Carol’s movie poster and their amazing view
Camila at her living room
Their bookshelf
Girls’ amazing window view