PedroUpike is the username of Pedro Santos, which is an international student in the University of Pikeville. Pedro decided to study in another country with 18 years old; he is now 20. He dropped his old college chasing this dream. Pedro pretends to graduate in Business and come back to Brazil after college. Pedro loves his home country despites all the problems that the country is having nowadays.
Pedro has two younger brothers, Victor and Arthur. He is son of Marcia and Luciano. He loves his family and would do anything to protect them, as the worse part to live in another country is the distance between him and his family. That is one reason why he likes Internet so much; Internet connects him with his family and makes the months easier to support. He is a Flamengo fan and so addicted to it. He and his father would never loose any opportunity to go to a Flamengo’s game and support their team. This is when Pedro, which was a shy kid started to have a social and healthier life. He started to play soccer when he was ten years old, which is very old for any Brazilian kid. Nowadays Pedro cannot stand his life without soccer.
Pedro is a film addicted too. If he could choose between any movie and the book the film was based, he would choose definitely choose the movie. Pedro is lazy and probably that is why he does not like to read much books. He likes to read the newspaper and books with real stories of real people; in fact, he likes to read about successful people as famous managers and businessmen.
He is in love with his dog, called Jay. For instance, he would never give him this name. In fact, Pedro has more love for his dog than his brothers that live with Jay. Pedro likes to be healthy and take care of his body as both of his grandparents did not and they are already dead. Pedro thinks that a healthy life style can only bring good things for you life, but he cannot think about the vegan idea. Pedro already was an actor back in Brazil, when he was ten. He played Hansel in Hansel and Gretel and his grandmother never forgave him for quit the stages.
Pedro likes to know about political issues in his country and thinks that things will only become better if the military take control of the country for the second time. He thinks that Brazil is socialist sometimes and he hates all kinds of socialism. His thesis statement for this subject is: If you like the socialism, why are you not leaving in Cuba? Pedro thinks that people always want to talk but they do not want to be example.
Pedro likes to play chees with his father and having a nice time in the beach with his family. The beach to Pedro is like a sacred place. He always go there when he has any kind of problems.