Dreams Story

Everything hinged on one decision, whether to speak up or not. Earlier that week I had a talk with one of my coaches in a golf camp in California, his name was Jeff. He gave me and the other kids in the camp a talk about dreaming. Jeff spoke about always pursuing our dreams. Well, it turns out that I wanted to go to a full-time golf academy in the United States. It was July 24^th, I will always remember. School started around August 8^th, so going to a golf academy that year was nothing but a dream. My mom picked me up from the camp that day. That same day we departed to Mexico. In the airport I was wondering whether I should speak up or not. I didn’t know if I should tell my mom that I wanted to go to a golf academy. I thought it was an impossible thing to do. I thought I should not even try, but in the talk Jeff gave us, he said that every time we want something we should try to get it. After awhile of thinking, I decided I needed to tell her, and I did. “Mom, I want to go to a golf academy next year”. I was hoping for a laugh, a giggle, something that expressed disapproval at least. “That would be awesome, as soon as we get back we should try to find one” she said. Completely surprised I started thinking of my cousin that went to a golf academy. He said that it took him 6 months to do everything needed: school, visa, golf school, paper work, packing, everything. I had a little under two weeks, and I didn’t even had a school picked out yet. I can do it I thought, but I knew it was going to be nearly impossible to get everything done before classes started. I was enrolled in a Mexican school already. It was just going to be ridiculously hard. All by itself, it was a nearly impossible job. But I had more complications, I had a school trip to the south of Mexico for a week, and I had to go. After three days of school picking, while in Southern Mexico I decided I was going to The Mike Bender Golf Academy and Lake Mary Prep. I made calls while in that trip. I had phone interviews. I was working hard on my dream even when I was not home. Two more days later, I was accepted to Lake Mary Prep. Now, the hard part was getting a student visa. That normally takes about 3 months, so I was pretty nervous about that. Somehow, my mom made some calls, and 3 more days later, August 2^nd I was booking flights to Orlando and explaining to my friends and family that I was going away for a year. As soon as I knew I was definitely going to go to Florida for a year, I got Jeff’s number and gave him a call. He was confused, he did not quite remember me. I told him the whole story and almost crying (at least that’s how it sounded over the phone), he congratulated me and told me to keep dreaming big. That was August 2^nd, 2012. Today, August 20^th, 2013, I am staying in Florida for my second year. Not one single accomplishment, friend, or improvement over the last year would have been possible without trying to do what I wanted to do, even when it sounded impossible. Over that week in the summer of 2012, I learned one of the biggest life lessons I have ever learned. I understood that everything desired should be attempted, even if it sounds impossible. Up to this day, my mom tells me she said yes because she did not believe it was possible to get everything done.