My goals are very straight forward. I want to become a film director that can craft stories and make them understandable for an audience about real life problems such as life, love, friendship and family. Speaking of family I'm a person who has had a family that offered so much support, due to that, I want to give everything that I can back. Emotionally and financially. I was born and raised in Ecuador, I have a lot of love for my country, in my goals I want to go back and shoot a short film there. I want to make my country proud as well. There are different problems and obstacles I have overcame during my life so far. One of them is immigrating to United States. I'm from Ecuador, and at just 15 years of age I had to come passing by different countries, all of that for a better life and for a dream. The dream is what I have mentioned before to make my country proud and be someone. People often refer to that as the American dream, this for sure is my dream. Leaving friends, my pets, girlfriend and family behind in Ecuador to get to this country to be able to dream bigger and be able to aim high and live for a better life. Language was a big problem my first years, I tried my hardest to learn English. Once done with high school it was hard to get to college. Money was a problem but also other difficulties that my family was going through. Because of that, and money issues I took extra time in community college. I really thought at one point it was going to take me more years just to be done with community college. Later on, in 2023, I applied to DePaul University once again, a university that I applied back in 2018 and because of money problems I was not able to enroll there. This time in 2023 I had to able to accomplish my goal of attending to this university and also graduating. That goal is still in process but for sure it will be a checkmark in a year from now. Lately it has been really difficult at home, problems with family that just a couple of months I would never even thought would happen, but here we are. I applied to an opportunity to study in Los Angeles for a full quarter as part of a program that my university offers. I was so happy I got accepted. Unfortunately as I mentioned before, the issues at home became bigger that I had to opt out from that opportunity. Today, with all the problems, with all the challenges I've been having on my life I can say I'm scared but very excited to see what the future holds for me, because I'm not giving up, I'm going to overcome this. I'm going to help my family get out of this situation, complete my goals and set new ones to fulfill my dreams.

Since the very beginning, my parents always made so many sacrifices to support my educational journey. Let's begin when I was just 4. I was born and raised in Ecuador. My parents are Ecuadorian, and the education system over there was competitive and at the same time not good enough for any kid. My dad knew that and he bought a board, a couple of markers, and every day in my room he would give me classes because he knew what I was going to learn at school was not going to be enough. Sadly money was a problem therefore my dad had to immigrate and come to the United States specifically New York, he left his family and friends, to come to this country to work hard and send money to my mom in Ecuador. I was able to get into a better school for the rest of my remaining years in Ecuador. Unfortunately, the distance split up between my parents and they divorced when I was 10. When I was 13, my mom also came to the United States to look for a better life, the same purpose as my dad but to Chicago where she was able to find a new love. Fast forward in time, I came to the United States when I was 15, and even though my parents were divorced they were still friends just to be there and see me complete my goals. I graduated from high school and I was scared to go to college, I knew how expensive tuition is, especially with the fact that I'm not eligible to do FAFSA. I had so many talks with my dad about my future and even though he started another family in another state, he was still trying his best to support me for my future. To this day he asks how is college going, he does not have much money for an adult like me, but he still offers help, and personally, it hurts me to even ask because I do not want to be a bother to him. A couple of months ago my now-not sstepdadalso helped me a bit with a payment for DePaul University. Present day, my mom and he are splitting as well which leaves me with not much support since my mom has health issues, and due to that she can't work like that. It gives me so much motivation to know the sacrifices my parents have made for me to be the first one of the family to graduate from high school, and a year from now, graduate from college. My ambitions and aspirations are countless, I want to do so much, but I will never forget my family, my parents, who have supported me through everything. I want to buy my mom a house, she has suffered so much with a stable home that I want to give her one of her own, everything that she needs I will take care of, and my mom will be proud of me. My dad loves boxing, he was a coach a couple of years ago but COVID ruined that for him. I do want to give him his own home, but also I want him to own a whole boxing gym that is his. They sacrificed a lot for me, and now is my turn to do it for them, I know life after college is hard, but I will put everything in the line to give them what they deserve, I will not forget about them and they will be proud of me.

Minecraft offers the player a limitless amount of hours and things to do. Starting from building a house to creating a whole world full of life. I believe the best goal that holds a special place in my heart if the escape of reality. The escape of reality is a vary used expression, but I would argue it holds a special meaning to each person. In my own very case when I played Minecraft for the first time I was very lonely. I was just 14 years old and my mom needed to leave the country. Loneliness can make time go really, really slow, especially to a teenager. I started playing Minecraft and I realized how fast time will go while I was enjoying it. My best memory that I bring until this day is that I wanted to create a stadium, an amusement park and a small town within creative world. I remember so perfectly, summer just started it was 11 PM and I just said goodnight to my grandfather. I grabbed some drinks and snacks and started playing and trying to build all the things I mentioned. Hours passed by and I was almost done until I started hearing the singing of the birds, I opened the curtains to see through my windows and it was day time already, it was almost 5:45 AM. I did not realize how fast time passed, especially since my room was lighted up by a bulb therefore I had no idea how dark and light the world was outside. I heard my grandfather waking up as well. This day was the first time I spent the night awake. I was so surprised and proud of me how I spent the whole night up without thinking the issues my family was having back then. It was an escape of reality, and that is why until this day I love Minecraft and I say is one of the games that holds a special place in my heart.