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Success paths of young immigrants in higher
education and the professional world.
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The image I have...
[BA in English]
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I may not remember many things but...
[Assistant director at a spa]
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is a series of signs.
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I don't know if they were like this or not.
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But having the feeling, and
I will do it this way.
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That if I were to choose any of these
sides, I would be choosing one.
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My next destination.
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And we decided to enter along Gran Via.
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We arrived in Barcelona, downtown
Barcelona along Gran Via.
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And the car after
touring France,
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Italy, ended up dropping dead.
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We found a garage, where we got the car
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to get fixed and see what we could do
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And when we woke up the next morning we had
the sea.
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The sea in front of us.
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In fact we did not know that
we had the sea in front of us.
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We didn't know where we ended up.
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We stayed a week there,
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while they were trying to
solve what was happening
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and also thinking on what to do.
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And we started discovering
Barcelona and seeing where we were
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with little things.
Going out to buy bread, greeting...
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Of course, coming from a bon jour.
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We also went through a bon giorno
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And now we...
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Every time we finished...
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Well, each time they greeted
it was a very different hola.
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And of course, also the Déu
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that marked us...
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And I'll never forget because since then my
father always says everything in a different way
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and we decided to start studying
this different language
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that we found a little more
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I entered the University
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and while I was studying
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I started teaching.
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And they fed each
other constantly.
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And I learned every day how to teach better
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and each time I was taught more,
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both by students and my professors
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I started teaching classes
when I was in high school.
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They were kind of support
lessons for my schoolmates.
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It was an exchange in which
I helped pass exams,
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Selectivity [SAT equivalent],
depending on ages.
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I also started tutoring
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for all ages.
Teens more than anything
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since they were the ones
that needed it the most.
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Then what I always liked was children.
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I got into several schools
and kindergartens
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to help, which was a lot of fun
and gave me a lot
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but it was a bit difficult to do
at the same time as my studies.
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Anyway, nobody could stop me.
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And every day I had more
and more schools to go.
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Then I decided to focus a little
more and start teaching adults.
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In this case I started
teaching classes at an academy
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subsidized by the Generalitat
[catalan government].
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I really had a lot of classes and
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It was very good.
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The only thing is that, of
course, it was very different.
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It was not the same to be working
with little children or with adults.
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Which makes me learn a lot
more and keep up to date
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all the knowledge learned in the morning
at the University.
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In my case, creating a
profession was not only
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academic support
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but also, in parallel,
to be working.
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In my case I was in a clothing company
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for several years at the
same time I was studying.
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The first option to start working
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of course, as for everyone, would be the
financial reward that work provided.
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Start at the University
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And begin to see also, within
the different fields at the University
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What would be the one that could
end up defining my profession.
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But always, in
parallel, you change
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and work can also open many...
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Many fields, and see what you are
good at and what you are not good at.
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Over all,
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I ended up, and now is where I am,
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but is never the end,
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because I never stop learning,
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in a place where I could
combine the University
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with those jobs I was having.
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[Recommendation]
What really worked for me is
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to listen to that curiosity
from the first hola
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and start learning about the culture
where I was introducing myself.
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Learning to learn every day
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Because each passing day
I learn something new
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and is something that
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it's always recommended to anyone
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who is in a similar situation.
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And another thing that I think is
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vital, specially in the
world that we live in,
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where you have to be fighting every day
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to demonstrate who you
are, would also be
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to learn to teach yourself
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not only on what you
can find anywhere but
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to never get tired of
looking and day by day
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get better, both in the professional world
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as in the personal world.
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