Thursday, April 26, 2007

Taking Care of my Community – Angela C

I really like where my parents decided to raise my family. Me and my brothers grew up in Harlem and everyday we walked by a senior home that was close to the subway. On warm days some of the seniors would be outside, playing board games or reading books. Me and my brothers would always stop and say hello. I liked to talk to them sometimes because I missed my grandparents, who we only got to see about once a year when we went to the DR. My parents made me feel good about being nice to the seniors because some of them seemed sad, maybe they didn’t get many visitors.

I enjoyed high school very much. My two older brothers were on the baseball team and they were both so good that they got scholarships to different colleges. They both ended up being far away from home and I began to miss them. After finishing my homework, I started to volunteer one day a week at the senior center. I would go there and help ladies with their hair or read stories to them. I liked being close to home because since my brothers were gone, I wanted to stay close to my parents.

I didn’t think college was right for me. I wanted to get a job after graduating high school because I already know what I wanted to do. I wanted to work at the senior home and stay close to mom and dad. Maybe I could do other work or start another career later, but this something I enjoyed and I wanted to find out how I can continue doing it. I made up my mind that this would be a start in life for me and my parents showed me that I could develop my work with seniors into a career. My dad was the one who went online to www.manhattaninstitute.com and he thought I should check it out. The next day I went to the midtown location of Manhattan Institute and met the friendly people who told me about how, after the seven months of training, I could start my new career as a medical assistant. I liked learning about all the skills I would gain and felt good that since I already knew alot of the seniors in the home near me, I would soon get a job that I liked and be trained properly on how to do it as a professional.

I completed my training and got the job I wanted. I worked at the local home for about three years and then decided to stay in the DR during one of my family’s visits. I am now working at a hospital in the country I was born and am so glad I got my initial training at the Manhattan Institute.

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