School Days to Come
I got tired of whining about not having a good job or the credentials to get a good job. I got worried when I got to that phase when I started regretting big time not having finished my career. Then I got pro-active and made an appointment with the Counselor at one of the local Universities here in Montreal and I met him last Thursday; I took my grades certificate from Colombia and asked him to help me figure out what to do because I really want to go back to school and get a diploma. My father didn't spend all those years making efforts to give me a good education to see me wasting my time, and I didn't spend all those years in school, getting good grades and making an effort to be a good student, to waste my time.
After a +1 hour talk with the guy (who by the way is REALLY nice, but this is girly talk, of course) I decided to go back and finish my "Baccalauréat en sciences biologiques" and from there start looking for a good option in Graduate Studies. He took a look at my notes, I told him one of my options was to work in a Child Care Center and he told me I was a little bit "Overqualified", that I could go and pursue a bigger career, and that I shouldn't be afraid of doing it. Of course he wasn't diminishing the Child Care option, just telling me that I have a more scientific mind and that in the long run I will end wanting something more.
The deadline for admission applications is on Monday, so I came back Thursday evening, sit in front of the computer and sent an application online, still feeling very numb because of the sudden events. This was something I had to do, I don't know if I will get accepted, but I'm hoping so! With my grades certificate I can finish my Bac. in 1-2 years and I'm really willing to do it. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to send all the papers in time, but the lady at the "Registrariat" told me I have two weeks to have all my papers in order.
Now the other side of the story is the fact that I'm afraid after 5 years of no intellectual work (ha!) my brain has kind of frozen, but the counselor told me it is normal to feel that way and once you're in school things start coming back to the way they were before and the brain, that is like a hard drive, starts processing the information. There's that and also the whole school lifestyle, but I guess being married makes things different. For now I'm just crossing my fingers and praying that if this is what I have to do, then God will help me to get in.
