Looking for learning. (Cristina Francisco)

              One thing I have realized during my life so far is that I am constantly learning from the things and people that surround me. From the moment we are “inside our mothers” we begin to learn. Education is the main system that has offered me the possibility to learn all the necessary academic stuff that is required from the socio-economic statement, but it is not the only way to get knowledge. Environment is constructed by living and not-living beings (people, animals, objects, nature, food...) that encloses our live. When we born all this is new for us and we have to adapt, to get familiar, and learn how to get along to them. The interaction that we made with this environment is the learning that we are constructing. We all are teachers and learners during our life.

            I am a student who is trying to become a teacher. As I said before, in our life we do no stop acquiring knowledge, we are continually gain fresh information that is connected to the previously  we already have. Our education is based on experiences. I still have not stopped being a student, actually  nobody does, because I need these experiences to achieve the required knowledge to become that teacher I want to be. I have always loved learning things from my parents, friends, teachers, classmates, relatives... because all them have helped to build my identity.

            All the experiences and all the knowledge that we obtain during our life makes us be who we are. In my experience, all these things have become the supporting point to my identity. As my learning was getting by, I was acquiring values, ideologies, beliefs and knowledge that I was transforming in my own identity, in who I was. More or less, it was my “sign of origin”. Therefore, I could never conclude my experience as a learner until the moment I die, due to I will always be a learner who always will have new things to know and to teach. Then, there is not an end for me as learner.

           

                                                                                  Cristina Francisco.