I was born and raised in a family of educators. I am the youngest in my nuclear family. My father is an Industrial Engineer and my mother is a 4th grade Reading and Language Arts teacher. I have one older brother and one older sister. However, I am the only one of my parent’s children who has a child of their own. My extended family also shares the same passion for Education as I do. My grandparents are both professors at Lee University and three of my aunts and two uncles are also Elementary School teachers and High School History teachers. I have complete faith that growing up in the midst of their careers is what sparked my passion to become a teacher. Although, it wasn’t until my senior year of high school I realized that I was being called …show more content…
I decided that enrolling in accredited program for at risk students would be the most sufficient way to graduate as soon as possible. I was very intimidated by the other students as for the first time in my life I was the minority. Even though my boyfriend was Latino and my daughter was going to be biracial I still stuck out like a sore thumb as white and pregnant female from the suburban area. However, my intimidation and judgment completely served me wrong. I was embraced and accepted by the teachers and made friends quickly. It was not long until I was meeting the families of my new friends and quickly fell in love with their cultures as I did my now husbands. I was fascinated by their culture, endurance to triumph over adversity and humbled by their struggles. I never realized what a privilege free education was until I saw where these families came from. I remember watching them struggle to obtain respectable jobs with livable wages because of their language barrier and it really struck my heart strings. However, that was the catalyst for me to learn their language and become a teacher. I desire to teach GED programs to this community and also be an advocate for their education. I plan on traveling in the summers to Mexico and
I have always had a passion for nursing. As a child, I watched my mother getting up early, putting her scrubs on and headed out the door for a 12 hour shift. She was always content, and at ease to go for a long shift and even overtime at times. I love the fact that after work, she would always come home, satisfied with the day no matter how hard it was for her. She would sit and tell my brothers and sisters how she enjoyed the conversations that she had with her patients and what impact she had on their lives that day. Listening to these stories as a child, I knew that I wanted to become a nurse and listening to the same stories and helping people, making their day feel better. I wanted to follow my mom’s footsteps. At the end of a long shift, it is a rewarding profession, knowing that I am saving people’s lives, making them comfortable when they are near of dying, advocate and teaching them. As nurses, we care for patients through illness, injury, aging, health. We also promote health, prevent diseases and teaching the community; that’s what I love about nursing. I believe that this is the right profession for me because I have all the qualities that a nurse should possess when
The passion of education that my parents instilled as well as my cultural values drive me to pursue a Ph.D. I want to be able to give back to my community; I hope to fulfill this by conducting research in underrepresented populations, like the Latino population.
Being an Eritrean-American, I have had to learn and balance out both cultures. This came with obstacles that I had to tackle and has allowed me to grow as a person. From learning two different languages, history, and cultures, my experiences have definitely impacted how I want to live my life in this world.
Given away by my name, I am not an American; I was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam - a dynamic city with over nine million people squeezed into roughly the size of south Bay Area. It was towards the end of my third year of high school that my family immigrated to the U.S. Leaving my hometown behind, at seventeen, I started a new chapter of my life.
The Ultimate Career Goal: I am extremely passionate about marine and wildlife ecosystems and all their inhabitants and have a desire to work in a career that allows me to work closely within these ecosystems as well as allowing myself to educate those that surround me about the importance of science. My ultimate career goal is to work as a laboratory and field technician for a reputable company or organisation.
The schools I have gone to have also had an impact on my experience with different cultures. Specifically my high school, Palisades Charter High School, prides itself on having a diverse student population. My parents could have sent me to some private school with not very much diversity, but they wanted me to witness different cultures and sent me to a school where I could learn from direct experience about these new ideas. From a personal perspective, I am very grateful that my parents gave me this opportunity and my experiences in school has led to my love of learning about new cultures.
I was born into a home, to parents who fostered a deep appreciation for culture, not just my own but all cultures. They taught me that every people and ethnicity contributes something beautiful to the human experience through their music, wisdom, humor, food, architecture, knowledge, and humanity. Perhaps their love of all cultures made me appreciate my own so profoundly. I am of Mexican-American heritage, and I carry with me the values of a proud, gentle, hard-working, passionate people.
My Mum had two daughters from her first marriage and then had me years later. My Mum met my step-dad when I was one and he had three children from another marriage. Although, I have many siblings from the age of five onwards I was bought up as an only child. I believe this has had impact on my personal self because it meant that I had to learn to live without my sisters and learn how to explain that I did have siblings but we did not live together. However, this has also impacted on my professional development as blended families are becoming more common (Statistics New Zealand, 2013). It also means that I have an understanding of some of the changes can that occur in the dynamics of family units when they blend as I have experienced them first hand. It has also made me realise how complex family dynamics are and that when you work with a client you will always be working with some form of family dynamic that you need to know how to work effectively within those
Listening to other people in regards to their culture has brought me to gain knowledge about them. I think it’s interesting how people come to our country for a better opportunity and an education. To even fathom that in other parts of the world a woman with an education is looked down upon. I didn’t read up on this in a history class, my friend told how it was for her personally. I’ve had both positive and negative experiences with race; we will never be able to change how everyone feels. Some people with always be biased, prejudice, and racist and that’s simply unfortunate on their part.
I had always wanted to interact with others in another language, especially since I was unable to hold a decent conversation with my parents when I was younger. This motivated me into learning Vietnamese, even though I had little experience prior to taking classes. I spoke a few words, but other than that, my first language, English, was the only language I knew. I had learned from my struggles as I wanted to give up and tell my teacher that I was not capable of learning another language. Overall, nothing in life is easy and I learned to work hard in order to achieve my goals. Starting from scratch has given me a wide spread of experiences, making me proud that I was able to accomplish my goal. During those four years, I had learned various ways of introducing my own culture to others and especially my parents, whom I have impressed with my Vietnamese. My parents, noticing my drastic improvement, shocked them and made them very proud since I was able to surpass my own mother's vocabulary set. I was able to speak, read, and write better than her, which made me very glad that I was able to communicate with other adults fluently. Now, I am able to read, write, and speak in Vietnamese proficiently and I can finally talk to my parents, after years of being blocked by the language
As a child, I didn't grow up like most kids in my community. Usually, babies are born to two adults with stable jobs. However, I was born into a family consisting of two teenage parents, my mom being 17 and my dad 18. Unlike most teenage parents who tend to split apart, I was lucky enough to have parents that decided to raise me. Of course, with the help of others.
I’ve always had a passion for helping others and I love the idea of being considered a dependable person. I enjoy when others come to me to talk about the hardship they are experiencing and being able to provide them with feedback or helpful advice. To do this I learned that you need to have the characteristics of a “people person”. You must be patient, which from my job experience of working in retail and the fast food industry, I would consider myself to be a highly patient person. I also posses the the skill of being outgoing and friendly. I allow myself to be comfortable when speaking with different types of people and I let myself open up so I can personally relate to them. By doing this I believe that others will return the comfort that I created and will want
Growing up in an Eritrean household has put a lot of obstacles in my life especially living in the U.S., but has also given me so many opportunities as well. Being able to learn about the culture and history of where I came from has truly been an amazing lesson to my life. Without the support and efforts of the Eritrean Dallas community, many of my fellow Eritreans and I would have not gotten the knowledge and skills that we have now. With my involvement in the Eritrean community, I have been able to learn and accomplish so much, but also has guided me to my future goals.
Every day, many people question my passion for pursuing accounting as a profession and the first answer I think of is that I am good with numbers. However, advancing in the field has made me realize that my passion is not only based on figures. Growing up as a kid, I was privileged to have a piggy account where I would save as little as fifty cents per week. Since my parents rewarded me in monetary value as a positive reinforcement in cases of good behaviour, I was motivated to maintain good manners so long as my savings increased. As time went by, I realized I had saved way “too much” money for a little child. The challenge came in the management of the funds because I was focused on spending more on pleasurable activities. However, the guidance of my parents enabled me to prioritize on the more important things and save more. I took interest in managing may own account as a child and even pursued accounting courses in high school. The interest grew deeper because I gained more insight on the facts about accounting and the career. Also, I believed that it is career that one would be self-employed thereby avoiding the dilemmas of lacking jobs after graduating. For instance, one would easily start their own business and manage their finances comfortably.
Passion for Family, Community, Business, Technology and Intellectual growth are what motivate me on the daily basis. These are vital parts that have contributed to framing me into the person I’ve become. They have also shaped my short-term and long-term goals in life. It’s critical for one to have a vision for their life and what they anticipate to accomplish. Without a vision or desire there is no hope for one to continue and to purse anything. My experiences with in my passions have helped me aligned my vision for my life. They have given me the valuable knowledge that have set me up for success to get to this point in life.