Andrea Mariana Islas DREAMS

Dreams


What if I told you I want to work in a museum when I finish college? Maybe you think I am crazy but, guess what? I do want that.
I have a dream, and that dream is to know it all about ancient history and travel all over the world to archeologycal sites, to discover magical places and to explore unbelievable cultures. Yeah, that is what I want.

How did this start? I am going to tell you a secret.

A few months ago something really, really big happened. Something that turned out to be a life-changing experience,the kind of something that reshapes your ideas and redifines what you thought of the world that surrounds you. It happens that I went on a trip. Not a roadtrip, no. Not an excurtion either, no, I went away for the best month EVER.

My mother, my aunt, my grandmother and me packed a giant bag each and said farewell to the City to begin what would soon be remembered as a fairytale, with a villain, a godmother and everything, I swear! I visited Egypt, Paris, London, Venice, Florence, Rome and Greece and learned more about myself during the time I spent there than about the very places. Not that I realized that right away, but as I settled back home I noticed I was not the same person at all. Through watery eyes filled with longing I could finally see what my deepest amibition had become. Once life feeds you a teaspoon of pure joy the irony begins, you are not satisfied by the precious liquid, oh no, you get an unbearable thirst for it. How can you get enough camel rides during the sunset or waves of the deepest blue crashing against your feet or hours watching gondolas go beneath the canals of a kind of Heaven you never imagined? If you can, you probably live there, but if you are like me, there is nothing like it and you know it. At least I could not possibly get enough.

A hunger for adventure within me awakened like a creature from the depths of the Earth, asleep for so long it needs to get out. Ok, that was a little over the top but I did not want a cliché. ;) . So....I want to work in a museum. “Why?”, you ask. Because it would be way cool. Plus, who would imagine what that trendy party animal does during the day. Right?

Maybe some people will think that it is not possible to actually succeed with that career but if my role model could, I can too. My role model happens to be my very own aunt, Ale. She is so amazing! She studied art history and photography when nobody believed in her and now she has seen the world, found true love and has a passionate career which she loves. She is the center of every party which she goes to and is the coolest, funniest and most amazing person in the whole wide world. It sounds silly and even foolish but I believe it is true and I believe I can achieve anything I set myself as a goal so, World, beware, because here I come!