lunes, 26 de agosto de 2019

Why here? Why now?

I've been trying to write about this questions for about an hour; it is not easy to simplifie all the things I've lived in this place, or the reason why I'm in love with CELE.
Perhaps I could tell you about my decision of studying at UNAM, the decision I took to become a lawyer, and the reason why I opted for Open University here at C.U.
Maybe, we can chat about why I was so needed for human contact since I wasn't used to hang out with people older than me, or why my friends weren't available for their majors.
I promise we could have a nice time if we spent the hole day talking about the moments and learnings I got from here. 
But that's a story for another time.
So let's begin from the start.
I wasn't sure I wanted to learn more about languages. Since I was a litle boy, my biggest dream was to become a writer. In those days, I sat in the libraries trying to write something about "the cowboy pambazo" (my first character), or the detective simon. Days passed as I dreamed with making something memorable for humanity in literature.
As I grown up, I decided I want to become a profesional in writing, but I wasn't sure how I was going to acomplish that goal. Besides, My parents always wanted me to become a lawyer, just like they were. In my last year of highschool, I decided I was going to play both sides and I apply for a place in tha UNAM's law faculty, but I was going to study in the open system, were I was only forced to present my finals exams and not to take classes during the week. I found myself in a situation were I could write the whole week and yet present my law major on the weekends.
I thought that as brilliant idea.
But then, as the days in my first semester went by, I realized I denied some part of me as well.
I found myself alone;my friends started their major and have no time for the old stuff, my parents were busy with work, and I had a terrible time with my exgirlfriend as well. Finishing my first semester, I was begging for some human contact with people of my age.
So, before I run out of time, I applied for an english course here at CELE with the only purpose to get some "week-classes".
And that's how I got here.
The reason why I'm still here it's not as complicated as the other one; Once I went through the bad old days, I lerned something very interesting in the way. I learned to love what I had, and stop caring for things I didn't have. I learned to write for myself, and not for fame or money. I learned to love languages, just the way I learned to love law.And I stayed in CELE not only because of what it meant to me in the past, but what it means to me right now, as a place where I can learn to communicate with others, and still have something of the old me inside.
So, as a conclussion, it is hard for me to tell you how important CELE is. I could have said how important are languages for your career or your personal life. We all have a story to tell, and I really hope you had a nice time reading mine.
au revoir mon amie, á la prochaine.