My Year Living in Paradise

The ups and downs of calling the Cayman Islands home

Paola Faben Oliveira
The Memoirist
Published in
5 min readMar 20, 2024

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Photo of a beach path with the ocean in the back and the sky coloured by the sunset
Photo by the author. A sunset in the Cayman Islands.

I woke up in a jump, sitting in the bed with a high heartbeat. It was a dream, a recurrent dream where I saw an airplane crashing right in front of me.

“It was a dream”, my mind said, but my heart was not listening, my breathing was getting faster and faster.

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Paola Faben Oliveira
The Memoirist

I'm a Brazilian living in Tallinn, Estonia. I write about my life experiences, lessons and some random reflections.