my essay

March, 2007
Gabriela Velásquez


My Relevant Experiences in Life.


Life is a field where every thing can be possible, from birth until death. This is a place that offers all things that any being needs in the world. All of the events that happen in life teach everyone how to live. Sometime these occurrences are not what people expect while others are. People do not know what they are going to experience and that is the reason for living; to know through our contact with our daily lives. No one lives the same life. That is because each person behaves differently when something occurs to them. My life has been full of unpredictable events as everyone. I feel fortunate for being accompanied by people that help me to understand what life teaches us and how to behave every day. As a result, I have experienced many situations during my studies and my family life that have taught me to become a better person.
I have experienced several events in my life as a student. Beginning in Kinder garden, elementary school, high school and the university. I have experienced difficult and easy situations that have helped me to become the person that I am today. In kinder garden I felt very lucky and comfortable with everything I experienced there. I was always a very quiet child. My mother and my uncle used to carry me to the kinder garden every day. I spent most of the time playing with girls and even boys. During Elementary school I studied in two different ones. The first one was to far from the town. A cousin and I used to wait for the principal who took all the students to the school on his van. I had a great pleasure in the course of these years, especially when I would end a period. Teachers would congratulate and give me a gift because of my score, good behavior and efforts made. I got some friends and I used to go to school with them.
At high school I had to made friends again because I was new in the city. I enjoyed getting to know the city with my new friends. After I was finishing High School I met my best friend. I spent wonderful times with my friend and my classmates too. My classmates and I traveled to Sucre state after the graduation in order to have more fun than at a party. I just started to study in the University and this situation has been very relevant in my life. I had to move from the safety of my home to another city which has been a big change. I have had to change some of my behavior because it has been necessary. Some times I have not felt so good with these new problems that I have been experiencing academically. Because of this, I have been trying to learn from my mistakes that life shows me everyday; inside the university. My studies have not been very successful as I would have liked, but the most important for me is to try to live them the best that I can.
I have lived interesting events with my family. As a child I used to play most of the time with my cousins. My family gave me a lot of love because I was the only female child in the family. I was very quiet. I learn from my uncles how to dance, since that moment I did not stop doing that. My mother would punish me because of an unusual behavior on me but she also spoils me a lot. I always kept in touch with all my family. I spent my vacations with my grand parents, uncles, and cousins in their houses. I felt very lucky when my little sister was born so I used to play with her all the time. The communication with my family members is very excellent, my opinion for them is very important. I rarely have arguments with any of them. My family has always supported me and I really appreciate it from them. The company of my family, especially my mother, has helped me to grow up and know how to manage the wonderful and painful moments in my life.
Life is very different to everyone. It makes people get experiences each second. I have gotten so many while I have been living the most important periods in my life. I have had the opportunity to spend time with great people. They have taught me that I have to work so much to become a better person everyday of my life. I have learned that love, patient and being constant is the best way to obtain what I really want in my life.

LES CHORISTES

Les choristes is a film where everything is going to change. The scenes are developed into an Elementary School. The main characteristic of this School is the treatment offered to the students by the teachers and the behavior that these students have. The teachers use a method called: Action-Reaction and it is obvious that this method does not have any good result. The students come from poor society where money to survive is more important than love. Because of that is that this guys are rebel and do not pay attention to punishments, hits or any other detention. One day a new professor arrived to the school, this is a musician but the principal did not allow music inside the School. The first day was almost awful for him, when he entered to the classroom the boys were throwing papers, running around the classroom and shouting. They took his briefcase and when the professor took the boy who had taken it the principal opened the door and ask him what had the boy done in order to punish him but the professor did not say any word about what had happened, this was the first step that this professor made to attract the confidence of his students. This professor got the idea that using music the boys would reflect and would try to behave in a better way; he went to principal’s office to propose the method and the principal accepted. This method was so excellent that almost three days of practicing let the boys to be songwriters but the songs were dedicated to the principal and this situation was not pleasant for him. The professor spent nights composing for the boys. They practiced everyday with the students and one day and member of an organization wanted to listen to the choir and the performing was so beautiful. Some days after the School was burned up and the principal had to leave it. The boys were near a window and when the professor walked down it the boys started to sing the songs and at the same time they threw letters with messages and parts of some lyrics, he felt much exited because of this. The one little boy was adopted by him because he did not have family. This is not the end of the film; the end is that this professor gave the enthusiasm back to these boys that were supposed to have it lost.