Shama Laguerre
The first time I heard about Palm Beach Atlantic University, was about a year ago. The excitement I had was unbearable, because I just knew that in my heart that this was the school for me. I decided to do my own research and I went online on the school‘s website and the information that I found greatly increased my interest in the university. I was born in a tiny Island called Haiti, I remember going to church as a little girl three times a week in Haiti. In 1996, when we migrated to the States, my parents kept the same parenting style; therefore I was raised in a strict Christian household. Growing up in a Christian household, provided me the opportunity to not only to have faith but to also live by faith. Surprisingly my faith comforts me and aids me to overcome many difficulties that I have endured in my life; with faith all things are possible, even when
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In high school, I joined the Medical Program at Boca High, although it was just a small some of us, I felt as I belonged, as if we were a family. One of my primary goals at Palm Beach Atlantic is to find that same attachment that I had back in high school with the Medical program; this would be ten times more extraordinary because, I would be with the family of God. To continue, since high school, I knew that the medical field was something that I wanted to put my full focus on, no matter how many hurdles there were to jump. My goal is to acquire what I need to study there and at the same time strive to become a better individual with a restored spiritual life. In high school, my passion for nursing started to develop, not just the idea of being a nurse but what nurses do in general. Taking care of people has been a passion for me; it’s how I express the love that I have hidden in my heart. In 2013, I went to Haiti with my church and we went on a ten-day mission trip,