University request.

It was my last session at my college and I didn’t know which one to apply, and if I had to ask in more than one university or not. I didn’t get straight A’s during my DEC but I hope I would be admitted.

Choice 1 : One university request.

Choice 2 : Three University.

University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO).

I got my response from the University. I was ready let’s open the envelope. Oh! My god! It’s impossible they said I have been refused. What was I going to do? This was my only chance to enter at the fall trimester, I had to wait one more year, I won’t know anyone and if I was refuse again? I was so sad. Should I try again or I find a vacant position in an enterprise with a better wage?

Choice 1 : Another year to wait.

Choice 2 : New job new life.

First opening:UDeM.

After two longed months of patience, I got a letter, it’s from UDeM, it’s the last University to respond. At this time, I had all the envelopes in front of me. I took the UDeM, and they didn’t want me to go nowhere than there. I was accepted! I hoped news were as good as it was with the UDeM. No joy this time, the few words at the beginning of the letter didn’t give me any hope. I was refused from my first one, the UQO. I still was happy because after all this work and all those hours of studying I was a future orthopedagogue. My parents were so proud. My second choice but so much better because I had also the chance to go in an apartment with my boyfriend or staying in my father’s house. I had to take a quick decision because school started four weeks later.

Choice 1 : Living in my father’s house.

Choice 2 : New home for my boyfriend and I.

One University request.

I decided to put all of my eggs in one basket, I was nervous but I didn’t have time to think about it because I had to finish my DEC and do a lot of time management to finally finish it an enter in BAC in special education teaching. So, I applied at UQO and I hoped I will have good news because if I it was possible, I liked to stay at St-jerome in my father’s house to save more. I also can get bad news should I continue my school or find a new job and get a home for a future family life?

Choice 1 : University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO).

Choice 2 : New job new life.

Three University.

I decided to apply in three different University because I didn’t want to work and wait during another year. So, I chose to make a request in UQO, UDeM at Laval and UQAM. All of them are giving special education teaching, in the better of the world I stayed in St-Jerome at the UQO, but a good one would be the UDeM, not far from my parents and not in the center of Montreal. In final solution, the UQAM, it was expensive to get an apartment there and not really quiet during the night. No matter what happen I will do the job I like. Which one I would like to know first, I always can look at the two others later.

Choice 1 : University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO).

Choice 2 : University of Montreal (UDeM).

Choice 3 : University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).

First opening: UQAM.

After the result of UQO, I knew what it was for the Montreal University. My mother really wanted me to go there because it was where she did her BAC, but I was nervous, if the two other refused me it was my only solution. I didn’t want to spend one more year at work and doing the OJT to all new workers. I opened it and... I was accepted! Only one respond left, but I was so happy to know I will be in the orthopedagogy program next fall. Last one, a big drum roll and... they wanted me too! Should I reserve my place in UQAM or I let it pass and go at UDeM?

Choice 1 : UQAM.

Choice 2 : UDeM.

Another year to wait.

Last week, I got bad news, no university for me the next trimester. It means that my dream, my life and the moment of my retirement will be rescheduled. The positive of that situation was the overtime to get more cash to pay for my studies because I wasn’t sure anymore of one thing I always wanted, become an orthopedagogue. Maybe instead of trying again I could simply go in the working world, passing a simple background check and build a new life.

Choice 1 : Retrying at university.

Choice 2 : New job new life.

Retrying at university.

After a hard year of a job, I had to quit because I wasn’t feeling very well after I was the victim of a sexual harassment by a colleague few months earlier. To get something positive I decided to do a second request at UQO but this time I tried to do two more. I already received my respond from UQAM and I got it, as my third choice it was a life buoy in last resort. For the UQO it was another story, I got the same answer of the previous one. No. I just received the letter of the UDeM and after crossing so hard my fingers the result is a big and strong yes! Let’s enter to university but I have to decide if I went in an apartment with my boyfriend in Laval, or we stayed at my father’s house until we had enough money to get a house.

Choice 1 : Living in my father’s house.

Choice 2 : New home for my boyfriend and I.

Leave and come back.

Five months earlier, my financial problems were too serious to continue, I found an internship in a small family enterprise. I really liked this place but because of money my couple wasn’t going very well. In reality, I am now single, all arguing were destructing our feelings, this wasn’t love if you can imagine your life without the other. In final, I thought to go back to school, but I was happy because I found a job I liked and I will continue to looking for love.

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First opening: UQO.

I got the three of them all on my kitchen table, I was so stressful, I felt my heart beating in my chest and my hands were shaking. Boom boom. Boom boom. I closed my eyes, picked one, opened it slowly and then I saw the letterhead of the UQO. I read aloud: “Madam, we are sorry to inform you...” It was enough I already knew the end, I took the second letter in front of me, UQAM’s letter, as fast as I can I opened it and read. This time it was good news. Let’s see the third one the UDeM, I got it too. I had to choose between the two. Is it going to be UQAM or UDeM in Laval?

Choice 1 : UQAM.

Choice 2 : UDeM.

UQAM.

The University was beginning, a new world was open to me. I had to decide which class I will follow during the fall trimester in special education teaching. I didn’t know what the charge of work was but I thought four was a good number. I decided to come to Montreal because it was in the big city and during my first year of college I was at Ahuntsic and I really loved the energy there. The campus was far and the traffic early in the morning, so my boyfriend and I decided to move in a little apartment. Unfortunately, I had to quit my job too, so we had few bills that were difficult to pay. I lied, we had financial problems and our parents couldn’t help us, they had their own stuff to pay. I thought there was only two solutions, I left school after the trimester and come back when we get money or continue University with a student loan.

Choice 1 : Ask for a student loan.

Choice 2 : Leave and come back.

UDeM.

I started special education teaching at UDeM’s campus in Laval and I couldn’t imagine a better place to be, I made the best choice for my future. I decided to take four courses in the first trimester. Back then, I had another one to do, I could go in a location with my boyfriend near to school or stayed at my father’s place but having some traffic before or after classes.

Choice 1 : Living in my father’s house.

Choice 2 : New home for my boyfriend and I.

New job new life.

Finally, I decided it was time for me to grew up and live my life as a proud woman. No regrets only more dreams. I found a new job few weeks after my letter from UQO. The boss and my co-workers were so kind. A man asked me on a date. He looked good but he acted weird sometimes.

Choice 1 : Give him a chance.

Choice 2 : Gently refuse.

Living in my father’s house.

I took a good decision, I was able to concentrate on school and not money but it still had a cost. Having to live in someone’s house was not easy for my boyfriend and more often than not he was angry with my father. There was only two ways to solve the problem, my boyfriend was leaving, or we were.

Choice 1 : My boyfriend is leaving alone.

Choice 2 : New home for my boyfriend and I.

New home for my boyfriend and I.

We were together in an apartment, having the most wonderful live I can imagine. School went well, found a student job to help my boyfriend to pay the bills and our love nest was just perfect, not too big, not too far, just perfect. The only downside was my father, I missed him I didn’t have news for twelve days, it was weird normally he was calling Wednesday and Sunday, but he missed three discussions. He was not answering to his phone, should I call my step-mother or wait until he recalls?

Choice 1 : Call my step-mother.

Choice 2 : Wait for my father call.

Ask for a student loan.

I asked for a loan, and they gave me enough money to continue studying, but once I was graduate I had to pay back and it took me ten years. I found a job in orthopedagogy in a primary school, with it my boyfriend and I got a big house, and we had two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. I can say I have a happy life.

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Give him a chance.

I regret nothing, our first date was so awesome that we went to three more before we engaged ourselves in a relationship full of love. Seven years later, we still be together, married and waiting for our first little treasure. He became the director of the enterprise, and I am now the HR in the agency.

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Gently refuse.

I said no for going on a date with him, he reacted so badly that I was scared. I asked to move in another department but they refused. With time, the tension as eased, we became friends, both kept their job, and he introduced me his older brother, who is now my fiance.

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My boyfriend is leaving alone.

I thought I let go my boyfriend for the health of our relationship but in final he broke up. I continued my BAC and got a job in special education teaching in a primary school and keep looking for my soul mate.

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Call my step-mother.

When she picked up the phone I asked for my dad, she told I had to come as soon as possible. My father had his second AVC, this time he won’t pass the night. He died twenty-nine minutes after I arrived. I wish he knew his grandchildren and saw me at my graduation. I will always cherish his last smile and his last look full of love.

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Wait for my father call.

During the night around two a.m., phone rang, it wasn’t my father, it was my step-mother, she said, “Your father is dead.” Nothing hurt me so much, I cried all the tears in my body. Today, it’s my graduation, I wish he was here, he would be proud. I am an orthopedagogue.

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