Saturday, August 23, 2008

Life goes on....






I am a kind of a person who likes to share moments with the family especially my children, they are the most important to me. I like going either to the beach or to the movies on weekends; it is a real pleasure for me to spend a quiet family day. On weekdays I am always in a rush because I have a part-time job in the mornings and studying in the afternoons, so I am at lunch and dinner time with my son and daughter talking everything about them, also I come home on my free school's periods when I do not have class. It has been so hard living my life like this, but I think it is something that I always wanted to do , but I could not realize it because I got married too young and later on I had my first baby. I used to have my husband's support so that is why I never had to work or study. My only role was as a housekeeper to take care of my children. Then, everything changed in our lives so I had to take the decision to start to work. At first it was so difficult for me because neither I was use to working out of home nor enough qualified to get a job earning a good salary. I began working as a saleswoman with different companies. My first important job was in an Insurance Company. The Company offered me a sale course in order to get a good training to be able to do it in a better way. It was very interesting to sell life and medical insurances. By doing so, I earned good commissions. I noticed that I was good at it. I sold many of them to almost all my relatives, friends and also to people that were recommended by them. That made me so proud of myself because people trusted me. At least that part of my life was fine. The only person who has always given me his support is my father, he never let me down.

After that time I thought that I could give some English classes to those students that needed extra help with homework, also, I used to review my children's work. So every afternoon, I had at home, more than three children reviewing their homework. It was a nice job for me because I was also with my children. It was when I decided to restart all over again with my English skills. I had learned it since I was in high-school and had the opportunity to study in a boarding school for a year. It was in a small town called St. Thomas, located in Ontario, Canada. It was an amazing experience to live there also visiting beautiful places like Niagara Falls or The C.N tower in Toronto. I still keep really good memories from the moments that I had in that country. Also I met nice people and made very good friends there . Eventhough I had studied English long time ago, I have not forgotten it at all. But, I know that I need to keep practicing. That is why I want to put my best effort in this subject in order to improve all my English skills.