Learning Changes Lives L’apprentissage change des vies - CELBRATING ADULT LEARNERS’ WEEK

I worked at a young age to support my studies, but in the middle of my studies I was forced to quit because my younger sister had to study. [...] Due to the bullying, I never wanted to go to school, and when I did, I was so far behind I could not catch up. [...] After I have finished my GED I have a few ideas as to what I want to do for an education, I plan to be in the medical field. [...] Over the three and a half years that I had spent working a minimum wage job, I kind of began to notice the absence of the classroom setting, and after maturing over the years and realizing that a post-secondary education was going to help me in the long run financially and open up more doors for me to some day work a job that was meant for me, that I was passionate in doing, and that I loved, my m. [...] I quit school in grade 9 because I was pregnant, and I just wasn’t doing well in school, so I decided to quit and go back after I had my baby.