In my 14 years as
a student of Colegio Panamericano I’ve learned many things from my teachers,
classmates and directors. I consider school as the best period in a person´s life
because it is where you grow up and learn many important things for the future.
In this moment I’m writing this manifesto to express my gratitude towards my
school and also to let people know what experiences I’ve had to face throughout
these years as a student. I will set many goals and work hard to achieve them
all. I will do many things in life.
Now that I am in
12th grade, what I can only think of is about College. College has
been one of my great concerns throughout my senior year. I am now anxious to
see what many things I will learn from this new grownup experience. College is
an opportunity of becoming a more independent person in the way that if you
chose to study in another country, you will have to live alone and solve the
problems by yourself. One of the experiences that will shape my life and the
way I see things is the one-year exchange to Germany this summer. I will have
to live in a foreign country with a strange family that will “adopt me” for a
long year. Here is where I will show what my parents have teach me and the
principles I’ve learned from them like respect, charity, cooperation,
generosity, humility and others. In Germany I know I will have to face many
difficulties that I have never faced before, but with the help of God I will be
able to find a way out from them. I consider myself as a spoiled boy that
depends mainly on his parents, but I believe that after this trip many things
will change in my life. Many people say that school is the most relaxing period
in life, but I say that it only depends in you. It depends in how you want to
live your life; stressed or relaxed, you have two options.
According to Soren Kierkegaard, “Life
is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” What this
author meant with this quote was that many people see life as a problem without
a solution, but they need to know that life is not a problem; instead, it is a
reality that needs to be experienced. From the experiences that I have gathered
throughout these years, I’ve proposed many goals that I believe are easy to
achieve if I work arduously. One of the goals I’ve proposed to change the world
is to make campaigns or commercials that emphasize males to behave like
gentlemen and changing the way men treat women in this generation. This goal is
sort of weird but at the same time I believe is being needed in this
generation. I decided to work hard and make an impact in the lives of my
classmates and friends to start this change that I hope will work in a future.
