Post Internship Reflection
Most significan challenge I've had
Since I was a little kid, I wanted to become successful and wanted the best education I could get in order to achieve my goals, I used to go to a school in México back in 8th grade, I asked my parents if I could go and study somewhere else, somewhere where I felt focused and that I would actually learn subjects that helped me for my future, my family made the decision to send me to The United States and study to pursue my goals, I started my freshmen year in High Tech High Chula Vista, and it was very difficult, there were many barriers I had, one of them was my language, when I started off I could barely talk to the majority of the people, I was afraid to speak spanish which by the time was the only language I was able to speak , but I also didn't knew english very well, I only had the very basics but I could hold a conversation with someone.
As the time passed I started learning english a lot better, my skills grew a lot just by practicing and trying to speak, people laughed at me trying to learn english, most of that people were spanish speakers that didn't knew english as well but they didn't try at all to learn it. The good thing is that today I am a fluent english speaker and now they are trying to learn. My other barrier is living so far away from school and having to cross the border everyday, this has impacted my life because I had to stop doing all the activities I liked to because I lose many hours of my day everyday coming back and forward, I got used to it but sometimes I realize how much of my time it takes but in the very end I know this sacrifice is for a better and that will reward me in the future.
Now I am here, I interned at a place where I feel comfortable with, a place where I learn things that I am not learning anywhere else, a place that prepared me for my future and a place that now I feel connected with, for me having the team I had at my internship became like a new family and this has opened many oportunities and doors I've never taught I would open.
As the time passed I started learning english a lot better, my skills grew a lot just by practicing and trying to speak, people laughed at me trying to learn english, most of that people were spanish speakers that didn't knew english as well but they didn't try at all to learn it. The good thing is that today I am a fluent english speaker and now they are trying to learn. My other barrier is living so far away from school and having to cross the border everyday, this has impacted my life because I had to stop doing all the activities I liked to because I lose many hours of my day everyday coming back and forward, I got used to it but sometimes I realize how much of my time it takes but in the very end I know this sacrifice is for a better and that will reward me in the future.
Now I am here, I interned at a place where I feel comfortable with, a place where I learn things that I am not learning anywhere else, a place that prepared me for my future and a place that now I feel connected with, for me having the team I had at my internship became like a new family and this has opened many oportunities and doors I've never taught I would open.