To describe my life, I would have to bring up a thousand times the same word: Challenges. Each one of us faces them in our own different contexts, even if we are the causers of these as consequences or not. In my case, things started to get rough by the time I attended middle school. I was the 3rd born of a mid-class family, our livelihood was decently good, until we coped with a financial crisis. It was a difficult time and I struggled to remain poised, because of course, being tight on money was problematic, but the entire atmosphere in my home was tense and somber. I did not know where to put my thoughts at that time, but figured out that somehow the only thing I could do was relieving my parents from further expenses, so I put a great effort
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At some point, I even applied for a scholarship program at a local university. Following several hard-fought phases and examinations, thanks to my school grades, my high score at the national university entrance test, constancy, and excellent recommendations from my former school’s principal and teaching personnel, I was given the Caribbean Leadership Award, which rewards young talent and academic, cultural, and sport excellence, granting me a free tuition for the Finance and International Business …show more content…
This was, undeniably, accepting a total change of my ways of living, taking into account the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural contrasts between said Asian nation and Colombia. What were my reasons to go around the globe to an unfamiliar place? To illustrate, there is the case of a non-blood related grandfather, a Korean War Veteran. My aunt's father in-law, as an “Ambassador for Peace” (평화의 사도), recounted me with numerous anecdotes about the group of friends he made, and how uplifting those bonds were after so many hardships. Little I knew about the horrors of war, but his past experiences impacted and inspired me, and I can remark that these tales of an unknown, faraway land captivated me and turned me into curious girl, always ecstatic of learning more about foreign societies. How did I come to like South Korea so much? As I grow up, I discovered how speedily this country developed in a matter of decades and renewed the world’s point of view of a place devastated by hostility, something that continues to astonish me until now, and that amazed me every day during my
At some point, I even applied for a scholarship program at a local university. Following several hard-fought phases and examinations, thanks to my school grades, my high score at the national university entrance test, constancy, and excellent recommendations from my former school’s principal and teaching personnel, I was given the Caribbean Leadership Award, which rewards young talent and academic, cultural, and sport excellence, granting me a free tuition for the Finance and International Business …show more content…
This was, undeniably, accepting a total change of my ways of living, taking into account the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural contrasts between said Asian nation and Colombia. What were my reasons to go around the globe to an unfamiliar place? To illustrate, there is the case of a non-blood related grandfather, a Korean War Veteran. My aunt's father in-law, as an “Ambassador for Peace” (평화의 사도), recounted me with numerous anecdotes about the group of friends he made, and how uplifting those bonds were after so many hardships. Little I knew about the horrors of war, but his past experiences impacted and inspired me, and I can remark that these tales of an unknown, faraway land captivated me and turned me into curious girl, always ecstatic of learning more about foreign societies. How did I come to like South Korea so much? As I grow up, I discovered how speedily this country developed in a matter of decades and renewed the world’s point of view of a place devastated by hostility, something that continues to astonish me until now, and that amazed me every day during my