Name: Marian Soto Coronado
Age: 50
Where do you call home? Oliva de la Frontera (Badajoz), Spain.
Education/Career: I’m a school graduate and I have an administrative assistant degree. Currently, I am a housewife.
Who do you live with? With my husband and my two children.
What’s a typical day for you? I get up and have breakfast, I gather everything I can and I put on the washing machine, then I make lunch…
In the afternoon, I do gymnastics and then a little pool workout, some days I spend some time with my friends at my house and the time I have left, I read or watch TV etc. I try to be with my children as long as I can between one thing and another.
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Marian Soto Coronado
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Josué Lira
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Name: Josué Lira
Age: 22
Where do you call home? I live in a rural area around the city of Sao Caetano, in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Education/Career: I finished high school.
What’s a typical day for you? I spend my days taking care of the cattle on my parent’s farm. I start my day having breakfast and watch my mother milk the goats. After the milk is collected, I help her to take the herd back to the pasture and sometimes my nephew helps us. The next round is to feed the chickens and collect their eggs. In the afternoons I walk the farm with my dog and do some weeding. This is an everyday job and essential to keep the pasture productive.
Sajmir Pjetri
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Name: Sajmir Pjetri
Age: 29
Where do you call home? Burrel, Albania
Education/Career: I finished high school
Who do you live with? I live with my parents and brother. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister. 2 brothers and my sister live abroad. They are all married and blessed with children. I am a lucky and happy uncle.
What’s a typical day for you? I try to do daily exercises, read books, watch movies and play chess.
Max Corrigan
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Name: Max Corrigan
Age: 19
Where do you call home? I am from Bristol in the U.K.
Education/Career: I have my math GCSE and I am working towards a Media degree, so I can work at home.
Who do you live with? I live with my mum, stepdad, and sister, but I would love to move out. I just need to be in the right situation first.
What’s a typical day for you? I wake up at about 6am and workout for a little while, then I do college work, edit or game in the afternoon, and finally shower late as I feel most confident with my walking ability.
María Mercedes Sebastián
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Name: María Mercedes Sebastián
Age: 32
Where do you call home? I’m Ecuadorian, but my parents and I are living right now in Madrid, Spain.
Education/Career: I studied administration and I also have an MBA, but actually I’m not working because working demands a lot of energy that unfortunately I don’t have at the moment. I use my time to prepare my knowledge in other areas like how to be happy and feel near to God. In fact, I’m thinking about studying a new career with something to do with Religious Sciences, I have a couple of options but I don’t decide which one yet.
Who do you live with? I live with my parents, and I’m so thankful for them and me be their daughter because they are the best parents ever always thinking of me, willing to serve and help me.
What’s a typical day for you? A typical day for me is: I wake up like at 8am, then I start the day watching a YouTube video called 10 minutes with Jesus that is about the reading of the day of the Holy Scriptures (I really think that helps me to start my day in a better way). Then my father gives me my breakfast, and when I’m finished with my breakfast, my mother helps me to have a shower. My mom helps me to get dressed and when I’m ready, I exercise like for an hour and a half with my father (because I’m not going to physiotherapy because of the virus). I listen to some music, and like at 2pm my mom calls me to lunch. At 3 pm I start my prayers, (I can’t explain how much peace it gives me I feel that is the moment of the day where I rest). When I finish my prayers, I watch Masterchef Ecuador by YouTube and then some Catholic conversion testimonies and some predications. I eat dinner and finally I read the Scriptures and Catholic Cathesism, at 10pm I brush my teeth, then I say a short prayer and after everything I sleep.