Well, this story started many years ago, not many just 21. I was born in Valledupar, it is a beautiful small city located in the north of Colombia and known as the land of vallenato. Unfortunately, I have not been there all my 21 years, I had to move to Bucaramanga when I was four because my dad's job and here was the place where I started to study. At five years old, I went to the kinder garden and the next year to primary school, which name was Concentración Escolar Manuela Beltran, there were my first years learning English. I don not remenber so much but my teacher was a handsome smart young man, he was so kind and patient with his students and he was my teacher for all my primary school. There is a remarkable thing for me in my primary school, I participated for the first time in a spelling bee competition but I did not win I was the second one :( anyway I considered myself so good for that. Besides, English was so easy in primary school, I liked it and my teacher made me feel comfortable. I graduated from primary school in 1998 and in 1999 I began high school. It was in the Instituto Pilitécnico Femenino, I was ten years old and in 6 grade we were 40 in a classroom. That was not an obstacle for my English teacher taught us, he was so creative he always brought us many useful tools like songs, pictures and videos to enjoy us in class. He explained in a way that everybody could understand him and his classes were son fun!!! also, he made us work hard in addition to that he was very strict. Sometimes I felt nervous in his classes because he used to choose people for made things in the board or just to say something in front of the group and for me it was so embarrasing but he helped me to do my best and when it was my turn, my nervous dissapeared. He was my teacher in 6, 7 and 8 grade. When I started 9 grade I got surprise because the teacher was changed for a new one she spoe in Engliah everytime and I felt frustated becuase I could not understand anything at the beginning but then I could understand not too much but the enough to pass the exams :D... All the time she was testing me but the good about her was when I had classes in a bilingual room full of computers. There, I spent two hours a week working in a special program which had all the topics that I had learnt in class with her, in that program I had te opportunity to see videos, listen to music, practice grammar and sometimes I recorded my voice to check the pronunciation. I was with her in 9 and 10 grade. In my last year at high school I knew my worst English teacher ever!!! he did not have any kind of methodology to teach English even he did not speak English, he just gave me some paper for translate and no more I felt bored and upset becuase I did not receive any help to be ready and well prepared for my ICFES. I graduated from high school in 2004, in that moment I had not decided that I wanted to do the rest of my life, so I decided to take a break for 6 months. During the break I started an English course at UIS in the language institute, I just do the first level and the teacher was so good. She was creative and she helped me a lot. he course was so important to me becuase I decided to study English and become a teacher. When I started my degree I did not have any idea how was it, I did not know that I had to be in a pre- intermediate level, so you can imagine how was my first level. My first English teacher at UIS was Maribel, she is the most amazing teacher that I know, she is very strict and very hard-working. My experience with her was a mess first at all, I did not understand any work that she spoke and it for me was frustating. I recieved some tutorials but them was not enuoght for me my english level was low that I thought to give up but I did not, I had to take it for a second time and it was better. Finally, I just want to say even thougth all obstacles that I had at the beginning I am so happy for my English level in this moment and everything I have learnt and improved... :D
