Academic Dimension

ACADEMIC DIMENSION
All of us around the world have many very important activities, events, or experiences along our lives, which are kept in our minds as stories to remember forever. Some of them are sad and make us feel homesick and some are very happy that make us feel very exited; but In this essay I am going to tell you about my academic story by answering the following questions. What school did I attend? What was school like for me? What prompted me to consider teaching as a career? What does my academic future hold for me? And about what has been my most recent teaching experience? By answering these questions you will able to know about my academic story.
When I was a six year old boy, my parents enrolled me in a small but pretty elementary school called “Ciudad de Gualaceo”. It was a school where at least three hundred boys attended every single day. All of us had to wear a uniform which was a red jacket, a white shirt and a tie; blue pants and black shoes which made us look elegant. I had to attend school every single day very early in the morning. I grew up in a small neighborhood, which was around twenty minutes from my school, and since there were no buses in my town at that time, I had to run every day in order to be on time and not to miss my classes. After six years attending the elementary school, it was the time to switch to high school. When I was thirteen years old, I went to “Miguel Malo Gonzalez” high school where I studied for six years. I would say that it was a weird change because everything was different. For example, the teachers started calling me “Sir Gómez”. For the first time in my life, I was sitting among a bunch of girls since I had come from a school where all the students were boys; I was in an uncomfortable environment; however, it was part of the process only because after that, my life started to change. In spite of everything, I can say that I had many great experiences in high school.
When I was twenty six years old I decided to go to the University of Cuenca in order to study English Literature. The university is medium size where twelve thousand students attended every day to study different careers such as: Architecture, Engineering, Economy, Medicine, Arts, Philosophy, Education and others. The university is located about forty minutes from my town traveling by bus.
All the schools are nice and awesome, but for me “Ciudad de Gualaceo” was an amazing and special school in my childhood for many reasons. The two most important aspects are: my teachers and my friends. First, my school had very nice teachers who were always willing to help me with my problems at doing homework. They used to encourage me to keep studying. I can still remember my teacher, Maria Morales, who was like a mother to me. She used to call me “My boy”. Also, she said that I was very smart and that she was so proud of me because of my class work. That was so important for me because those words made me feel very good and confident as well. Another aspect why my school was very special is because I had a lot of friends who I played with. For example, they and I used to play soccer during break time and we always placed a bet for the winner of the game. That was funny because at the end of the match we were fighting each other because of the bet.
If a person is asked about one of the most wonderful experience in his or her life, I am sure that most of them refer to High school time and I would say the same for many reasons. I will write about two of them, adolescence and love. First, adolescence is a weird age where you start doing crazy things. For example I can still remember when my classmates and I filled the girls´ school bags up with a lot of stones. It was incredible to see all the girls taking out the stones from the bags; the classroom was full of the stones when they were taken out from the bags. Another reason why I would say that high school is wonderful, is because it is the place where you start feeling something for another person. I mean, falling in love with someone else. For example I remember that I met a beautiful girl whom I was in love with. We were boyfriend and girlfriend for a couple of years; however, we could not keep staying together because she moved to the states.
Being in the university was a totally different experience than that of being in high school. This is because I was twenty six when I decided to go there in order to study. I mean, I was a mature person at that time. However, I consider that I spent a terrific time for three reasons. I got a degree, I met my best friend Juan Pablo and I met the most important person in my life my wife. Now we have three awesome children.
In the year 2004, I became a teacher. I do not know why or how but I got involved in the education system. My first job as a teacher was in a private school where I had a very nice experience with my students and colleagues. I can say that my first good experience helped me to decide that I wanted to be a teacher forever. I realized that being a teacher I can help people not just in the academic area but also in different aspects of the students´ lives. For example, in the school there are many students who are going through many different kinds of problems there we as teachers have great opportunities to help them in making good decisions to improve their lives.
Nowadays English is considered the most important language around the world that is why a lot of people are trying to acquire and know about this important language. English is used in different areas such as, businesses, medicine, tourism, sports, and many others. For example, if a person wants to travel around the world just for pleasure, he needs to know at least basic English so that he can communicate with others since English is spoken in most of the countries as a basic language. This being said, I think that my academic future holds a lot of opportunities for me as a teacher and as a person as well.
I have been working as a teacher for ten years but my most recent work was in “Nacional Chordeleg High school”. It is a pretty public school, which is located in the urban area. Almost nine hundred students attend every day to receive classes. I have been working there for the last eight years with different grades, but before coming to the states I was working with freshman students. I would say that I had a nice experience working with them since they are very responsible and creative students. They have taught me a lot.
In conclusion, I have had a very exciting academic experience since I have been through different stages in my life learning as a student and teaching as a teacher. It is not just what you have learned and taught in the classroom but also what you acquired as a human being by sharing with many different people in different areas of their lives. I am glad to have this opportunity of being in the both sides of fence as a student and a teacher.