High Hopes

My name is Yassine, they have told me that my grandfather chose this name for me, but I don’t believe that. I was born and grew up in Meknes, Morocco.  My family is a pretty small standard family, there is me and my little brother and of course both my parents.

So far, my life has been an ordinary story. Since I graduated from high school, my parents and me argued a lot about the degree that I was going to study. After that, I went to France to study engineering; nevertheless, I ended up studying musicology. I always wanted to become a musician; therefore, I successfully passed the audition to be admitted at the musicology department.  I studied music for about two years and half, until one day something happened. At this stage of my life I was happy and proud of what I was doing, until they announced to me that my student visa have been refused. I was constrained to come back to my country, which eventually I did. As far a the experience in France is concerned, I was very confused of what I was supposed to do with my future, was it the end? Did I fail ? my parents supported me as well as my friends; moreover, I decided to apply for AUI. I was admitted and I was really happy about it; it felts like a fresh start to me. Now that I am in AUI, even though I am studying business, I am really motivated to a brilliant future. I am very lucky to be here, I hope that in a few years I will achieve my goals. If I have to describe what I want to be, I would say that mainly I want to work all over the world. I will work in many companies, maybe one day I will start my own company. Right now I’m really focusing on building a strong knowledge in different fields, and a get as much profits as possible during my degree here in AUI.  By this time next year, I will try to apply for an exchange in the US to improve my English as well as visit this huge country. Despite all the deceptions I have met in my life, I am keeping myself very optimistic and I will work hard to reach my purposes in life.  Failure is not and end; most importantly, it is a warning and a bridge to a new perspective for success.