To start off, I was born in Santa Cruz city, Bolivia. I went to Angela Pinckert High School, and since I was a kid I have always pushed myself to work hard and be an excellent student, and also get involved with opportunities that are out there, so in primary school I was part of the honor society as the best student of my class. Then, when I got into high school I was also in the honor society as the best student of the school. However, I have also participated in extracurricular activities out of the school. As an example, my first activity that I had was when I was in 6th grade, where I had the opportunity to develop my leadership skills by creating and organizing groups to develop an ecological project as we saw that our community was facing …show more content…
I won some math competitions in my school that made me think that I should look for a career related to this subject; returning to the organization of groups, I started with a small group of study, but then the members of the group started to create other similar groups of study; when I saw that, I had an ingenious idea, which was to expand the notion of groups of help in the whole school, and because I was the best student of my school, I talked with the other good students from other courses to make the project ,and successfully we achieved the goal, the groups of help were expanded, and there were not only math groups but also from other subjects. Besides, I have always felt passionate about learning new languages, so when I was in high school I was able to get the Martin Luther King scholarship, a program supported by the U.S. embassy and Centro Boliviano Americano, which is an important English institution, and through this program I had the chance not only to learn English but also to learn about other cultures such as the American