Storyteling Assignment #1

I started an online course called “The art of story telling” from Disney in Khan Academy. So i decided to post all my progress and see how I improve. This assignment is about telling a memory about my life. This memory is one of the strongest and more precious for me. Hope you enjoy! Since I was a child my dream was to be a Game Designer. All the worlds and experiences that they made was what kept most of my childhood entertained, those worlds made me feel not so alone in this world. So I made a promise to become a Game Designer. I knew that would be hard, and that everybody will think is not possible, but I would try and I will succeed. When I was 20 years I got a lecture from a Statistics professor in college, she was really mad at us because no one in the class had made the assignment for the day, anyone except for me. The professor was really disappointed with the class and started to give a lecture about responsibility, and how we, all Colombian students, were going to have a rough time when we graduate. She keep going with the lecture, using harsh words in a high tone, but I wasn’t really paying attention. My mind was going around some of the first words she said, and those words keep spinning in my mind even today. “If you keep conforming to the things I teach you, to what the university gives you, you would never have a name in this society. Remember that you are students in a middle class university, in a country where you need to have power and money to succeed”. Those words kept with me every day and change the things that I wanted for my life. That lecture guided me to enter in a study abroad program, so I could go to those universities and learn the most that I could. So I decided that I would go to the United States, and learn all that I could there. My plan was to go to a University and learn as much as I could. Everything look very perfect in paper, all was planned and scheduled, until I got to the airport and saw my flight in the departures screen. In that moment all the excitements and fears came to mind. All the possible outcomes stock in my head and the anxiety take over my body. At the same time my girlfriend was next to me, as beautiful as she could be with tears in his eyes, but in that moment she was most beautiful than ever. We had been dating a few months, but they felt like years, and she was already a big part of my life. We had been talking about what we should do when I leave for weeks, until we decided we would give it a try. I don’t even know what I felt in that moment, I was excited for the new things that I would learn and I would experience, but at the same time I was scary and sad to leave my girlfriend behind. Eventually the time to leave arrived. I hug my girlfriend and then look her in the eyes, I was thinking a lot of things in that moment and I didn’t know what to tell her. I gather strength and tell her “We will be always together if we trust in each other. The second we no longer trust in each other this will end. And believe me, I trust you”. Then I kiss her and went to the boarding room. It looked bad at the time but everything end up nicely. She was my strength when I was away and depress and I was his comfort in her bad times. I had long distance relationships before but never like that one, that one was special. We keep together and think in a future together, but must important, we never stop trusting in each other.