“The Dreamer” I started living my life with lots of dreams. When I was a kid, I dreamt to eat pizza, I dreamt to wear elegant dress, I dreamt to have a comfortable home and dreamt to have a profession. I was a dreamer as early as a kid because we have nothing. I have everything when it comes to love of God and family but we have nothing when it comes to our needs. Need to be secure everyday and need to have something to eat. I experienced eating meals with one of these as my viand: banana, “haring isda”(junkfood), “calamay”, sugar, cooking oil with soy sauce and even salt. I never felt the lacking because of the perfect love that my parents shown to me but time comes that I started wondering and dreaming. I told myself “I have to finish my studies to make these dreams come true”.
We didn’t have our own house and my mother entered different kinds of job just to support us, my eldest and only sister. Her last work was being a baby sitter with a salary of 2,000 pesos per month. At that time, my Ate and I were college students. She was third year and I was first year. Imagine how my mother able to manage the 2,000 pesos per month. It was a blessing that Ate and I became a consistent dean’s list from first year to third year and we both graduated as Cum Laude. She graduated year 2013 BSED-TLE and I graduated year 2015 BSED-Math at Samar State University. That also somehow helped my mother because it offered a scholarship in which we have to pay just the half of the tuition fees.
At age 20, I started working as a part-time instructor at the same University where I graduated. Without the help of this scholarship, I will not be able to experience this. Now, I am near in facing the reality of my dreams. I will never forget the goodness that CHED’s scholarship to my life and I will always be thankful because I am now a Licensed Teacher.
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