Thaquingar's life

     Since I started to study until nowadays I have always thought that education is the key to obtain anything I want and to open the doors that guide you to the future. If anyone wants to have a better future for them and for the next generation, the most important is education. Sometimes, I try to remember my whole educative line, and that brings me some relevant memories that mark my life.

      I have vague memories of the first years of study at primary school. As my mother used to teach me at home, I did not know what I had to do there with other children. Actually, that was the first time that I met other children. I started the first grade, it was hard but I could overcome it with some difficulties. However, in the following years, I could build my confidence and I started to be one of the best students during those years. I always received an honor mention for my academic results and for my behavior. As I had realized that my parents felt o proud of me each time I received an honor mentions, so I made the decision that I was going to effort and to do my best in order to make my parents feel so proud of me. In other words, my parents became my motivation to study and to do my best.

      The secondary school, I was so nervous to begin the secondary because the high school was further than my parents' home. In the first year, I felt uncomfortable and it was a bit difficult for me to get used to that new school. As I met new people, I had a new friend, but about finishing the year, I realized that I should find friends that support you and not hold from you. In the following years, I became more comfortable, and each year I always received a honor mention for my academic results and for my behavior. As I was considered as one of the best students at high school, I used to feel that pressure that pushes you not to make any mistake because many people believed in me and I did not want to disappoint them. During high school, it was common that teachers asked us about our future studies, and I was not sure what I wanted to study. Additionally, The SENA offered a course for two years before finishing high school. It was a Software Programmation Technique. Everyone started that course, but some months later some of them decided to quit due to the fact that it was demanding at the beginning. I started that course obtaining bad grades and I felt disappointed, I did not want to continue that course. However, I did my best and in the end, I could finish the course. So after finishing m secondary studies I had a Software Programmation Technique.

      As I did not want to stop studying, I started a Technique in English at Politecnico Americano. During one year and a half, the time of the course, I always thought about my big motivation which was and is still my parents. After finishing the course, I wanted to go further. I started working in other to save money to pay to enter the university.  I prepared in order to present again the ICFES to start university. Fortunately and with the help of God, I could obtain good scores that allowed me to enter the university. As I had made that Technique in Foreign Language, I decided to start the Teaching English Bachelor at Universidad Surcolombiana. Meanwhile, I have studied, I have worked and kept studying in different short courses. Most of them were virtual courses that help me to complement my curriculum. Three of them were in the platform of SENA and one of them with the Politecnico Surcolombiano.