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