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Post 2 - Why did you choose this career / course?

Welcome everyone to your second blogging assignment. This time, you will have to explain why you decided to embark on the couse you are currently studying for. You should then consider including:

- Your dream jobs when you were a child
- Other course options that you had at the moment of applying to university
- What made you decide in the end
- Your experience at university until now
- The kind of job you would like to have

Posdata: 
  1. Your text should have no less than 130 words
  2. Leave a comment on three of your classmates' posts and on your teacher's post as well.
Open the Door
Do you remember when I posted on my blog that 'I didn't know what to do with my life once I finished school'? Well, to be more exact, that 'lost-in-space' story did not begin at that stage of my life. However, before I go any further, let me put this flattering remark into more optimistic words, so you can derive some useful meaning from it. 
Here I go again. It happened to be at a very early age that I wanted to do so many different things. I thought I had the potential and freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. I had on my mind: becoming a garbage collector, spaceship pilot, gardener, cook, secretary, president, Teleton drummer, etc. As you can see, everything was all connected. 
As I started focusing on one thing (earning a life in the 90's had to do with choosing one career path and die then 'in office'), I envisaged working in something related to literature. The thing was that I had won a poetry competition at Universidad de Valparaiso around 2004-05. So it made total sense to me that if I was going to choose one thing only with no turning back, that thing had to be Spanish Literature. To cut a long story short, I applied to Universidad de Chile. My first option was Spanish literature. And my second one was English Language and Literature (linguistics). You might guess what happened. 
My first year in the English programme was awful. I failed. Obviously the only one thing I learned at school was 'open the door' and 'close the window' with some minor variations, such as 'open the door, please-please'. But I was determined to overcome my English flaws and make it through. Guess what again. I made it. 
Now, I have over nine years of experience working as a teacher, though,  I am, strictly speaking, a linguist (someone who dedicates himself/herself to the study of language). I finished my MA degree in linguistics, specialising in linguistic anthropology, which is basically the study of language and its sociocultural relatedness.
In mid-term future, I would love to continue my studies (hopefully a PhD) and do more academic work, especially at Universidad de Chile: my second home.

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  1. It's nice that you have decided to study linguistics.
    You're a good teacher!

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  2. I hope overcome my English flaws, with your help! thanks teacher.

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