3+2 is not 5

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Hi! I am one of the 2 of the name of the group (the other one is Arnau). I am 22. But that is not my real age. Since I was 8, my parents had told me that I was older than my age. With this I want to let you know that my sense of responsibility was bigger than the age’s one. This was both good and bad for me.

 

However, my expectations of myself are not the common ones. I love demanding myself and I love trying to do my best in everything I can.

 

For instance, I do love basketball. Is my favourite sport, the door that allowed me to meet people and to express myself, the way to go out and to stop been shy. So, you may imagine how basketball is important for me.

 

And, although this basket is a good item to speak about, I must talk to you about my relation with languages.

 

Since I started school, English was the weirdest language in the world. I am a Spanish speaker, not Catalonian speaker or other languages speaker, at least, at home. My father is from Albacete, and my mother, from Valencia, but her family was not the valencian traditional model of family. So, my contact with both, Valencian language and English started at school. When I was there, also in high school, my teachers of English were simply horrible. They helped me to hate this language, to avoid everything related with English. This language was the evil of the film, it was strange, weird, horrible, terrible, awful… That was my point of view.

 

 

Thanks God, this changed absolutely when my first travel to a foreign country - Austria -. There, Austrians speak German and English the same level, and that is why I realised that English was important, not the way we teach it here, in Spain, but the way is spoken in Europe. So, this was my main objective, and it is still being, to improve my English.

 

Why I am speaking about all these things and not been more implicit? Let me be more implicit. I am not my language level, I am not basketball. I am my family, my girlfriend, I am Samuel, I am my cousins, I am my basketball children, I am my studies, I am my travels.

Let me speak about people around me. I am the first of 5 siblings. As you could imagine, this will always be something to take into account, not only for my daily life, but also friends’ life, school life and quiet – peace life (non-existent). I am not complaining of them, nor complaining about my life, I just want to show you that my life has been always affected, but in good ways.

 

Samuel, also my girlfriend, are the ones’ that make me feel that I am important for someone. I have felt that I am loved. They are still with me when I am weak, and why I am happy. This is absolutely important for me, how could I be myself without them?