My name is Jonatas Teixeira Prates. I am an 18-year-old international student from Brazil, currently in my second semester at Georgia State University, studying International Economics and Chinese.

I have lived in Curitiba, Brazil for the first seventeen years of my life. In 2015, I decided to move to the United States with my family, in order to finish my studies and get an American college degree.

As any good Brazilian, I enjoy soccer a lot, and my favorite team is Gremio Porto-Alegrense. I also like fencing and tennis, and practice both sports.

I also have many interests aside from sports. I like listening to and playing music, and I play the guitar, ukulele, and mandolin. I love playing video-games, and I collect retro gaming consoles.