Maria Gustafson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“Romance on a boat ? ” by Maria Gustafson

My parents and I had been traveling around Europe for almost six months when we decided to go to Greece. Since we were in Italy, we planned to take an enchanting cruise ship from Bologna to Patras. The name of the ship was “Saronic Star”. We were a group of forty-three people out of whom I was the youngest by far. Since most of the couples on the trip had left their kids behind, they all treated me as if I were their own daughter. I had like twenty fathers and mothers, which was, sometimes, really inconvenient. Back in Florence, we had celeb...

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“Traveling” by Maria Gustafson

Submitted to Contest #74

A couple of years ago I traveled to Europe with a one of my friends from school. I flew to Paris, went to the hotel to leave my luggage and then took a cab to pick her up at the Eastern train station. It was so emotional to see her! We had been in contact but I hadn't seen her for more than 20 years! We then went to the hotel to leave her suitcases and, afterwards, we started going around the city of lights. We first went to the Place de la Concorde and the Place Vendome. We visited some of the most expensive stores there, among whic...

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I'm a PROZ Sworn Translator (ATA Member), a Simultaneous Interpretation, a Certified Court Interpreter and a Language Professor. I offer Translation, Interpretation, Transcription, Transcreation, Copyrighting, Transcribing, Dubbing, Subtitling, QA, Localization, Website translation, Proofreading and Editing, among others. I speak English, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, German and Portuguese. English, Spanish and Swedish are my native languages. I also paint art.