[Blog #1] My Ultimate Dream

Since I was a kid I want to be a teacher someday. Both of my parents are a teacher that is why I want to follow their footsteps. It’s been my ultimate dream; I can already imagine what I am going to do when I finish college. But different thing happened after I graduated in high school last 2007.

I know to myself what I really wanted from the start. But instead of supporting what I really wanted, my parents insisted that I should take up the Nursing course. During that time it was the in-demand course in the Philippines. The highest paying job and everyone I know is taking it up. I tried to fight for what I really wanted but I was defeated. I took up Nursing because “that is what they said”. Even though I hate what I am studying I don’t have any other choice. My first year wasn’t that fine as I have failed 2 subjects. Disappointed with the result, I still continue the next year. I tried to study harder, though I do not like the track I am heading to, for the benefit of my parents I still did it. But as the semesters past my track became shaded and seems like impossible for me to continue. When my second year ended, I know that I can’t do it anymore; I talked to my parents during the summer. I asked them to let me stop because I really can’t continue what I really hated from the start. After one sincere talked, they understand what I am going through and told me change course. As quickly as possible I searched for schools I can enroll in to for the next school year.

Though that summer I already had the chance to take what I have been dreaming of, I took another path. Instead of getting teaching as my program, I took Information Technology (IT). I told myself “Since I’m fond of the computer and dealing with the new technology, why not?” So I took up IT without hesitation and I am having fun taking it. I learned new information and got to know more about computers. As I am having fun taking it up, opportunity came to me at the wrong time. My US visa got approved and I don’t have any choice but to stop again. I need to pack my things and get ready to leave the Philippines.

I am now living in LA and but I still have the determination to finish my schooling so I asked my parents to let me go to school again. Since I got the permission, I searched for schools and get the requirements I needed. At the current present time, I am already taking up subjects and trying to start the path that is really meant for me from the very start. I wasn’t able to give the chance to choose before, but this time I’m getting what I really wanted when I am still a kid, to become a good educator someday.