January of 2012, I was graduated from high school, and my real life was about to start. By “real life”, I meant an adult life, where I was obligated to either study or work to take care of myself. I was born in Colombia, but I moved to live to Panama in 2007. Panama provided to me and my family economic stability, it gave me the chance to meet people all over the world, and it gave us opportunities to grow that I consider we had not been able to get in Colombia. Among these opportunities, my parents gave me the choice to either study a second language in another country or study college in Colombia. It was a difficult decision to make because Colombia was known in Latin America for having high-quality universities, but one of my goals was to
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During this trip, I grew as a person as well, I was an introvert guy, who was so dependent of his parents, basically I was the type of guy who had to ask to their parents for everything, I could not solve my own problems, I needed help for everything. While being there, I had problems with my visa, which I had to solve it by myself. My personality changed as well, I became psychologically stronger, I was more independent. Besides of these aspects, one thing I liked about that trip was how the country was organized and how polite the people were; streets in Toronto were pretty clean, transportation system was efficient, they had high-quality education system. This last aspect made think about studying college there or coming back to Panama and starting at FSU Panama. The possibilities of staying there were high, and I was also applying for many universities there. I was also analyzing my financial possibilities there, and for that reason, I declined that option. I found out that FSU had this program where people from Panama were able to study two years in Panama and two years in Tallahassee, and if we maintained a GPA higher that 3, we could pay our tuition as we were
During this trip, I grew as a person as well, I was an introvert guy, who was so dependent of his parents, basically I was the type of guy who had to ask to their parents for everything, I could not solve my own problems, I needed help for everything. While being there, I had problems with my visa, which I had to solve it by myself. My personality changed as well, I became psychologically stronger, I was more independent. Besides of these aspects, one thing I liked about that trip was how the country was organized and how polite the people were; streets in Toronto were pretty clean, transportation system was efficient, they had high-quality education system. This last aspect made think about studying college there or coming back to Panama and starting at FSU Panama. The possibilities of staying there were high, and I was also applying for many universities there. I was also analyzing my financial possibilities there, and for that reason, I declined that option. I found out that FSU had this program where people from Panama were able to study two years in Panama and two years in Tallahassee, and if we maintained a GPA higher that 3, we could pay our tuition as we were