I come from parents who immigrated from Mexico in hope to give their family a better future in the United States. My parents brought me when I was 3 years old, I wanted to make my parents proud of me and make their sacrifices worth it. When in high school I was unsure what career pathway I wanted to take. I just knew that I wanted to go to college and make them proud. I am the first in the family to attend a university and would be the first to graduate from one. I grew up in an area where Spanish is heard a lot and I would like to be able to teach other students the beauty of the language and its history. I see how my community accepts the language since they have created a dual immersion school. I would like to be able to help connect both languages, English and Spanish.
Growing up I always like pretending to be a teacher when I was little kid. I knew that’s what I wanted to be when growing up. Throughout the years I would change my mind and say doctor or chef. Then when I got to high school, I was so unsure if I still wanted to be a teacher, I was unsure of where I wanted to be after high school to be honest. It was not until my senior year in high school when I took an advance placement class in Spanish literature that I felt a strong connection with teaching once again. I wanted to be able to teach more people the amazing works I had read myself. I want people to fall in love with no only the language but also the history that comes behind it.
Learning the Spanish was not as easy as I thought it would be. I had rough patches learning the language. I felt like being a Spanish speaker people always assumed that you knew the language and were good at it. As I kept taking courses at California State University Monterey Bay I realized that I was unaware of many things that regarded Spanish from grammatical aspects to the hispanic culture. While attending CSUMB I learned more about the culture but also about myself. I found out what was my weakness and what my strengths were. I notice that my vocabulary and fluidity got better than how it was when I arrived to CSUMB.
Now that I am currently a senior at CSUMB and will be graduating in Spring 2020 my goals for my future remain the same as to when I arrived to CSUMB. After graduating I plan to take a year off and dedicate it to my daughter, this does not mean I do not plan to return back to school to higher my education. I plan to pursue a career in the field of Spanish and try to give back the knowledge that I received throughout the years at CSUMB back in my community.