Angeli Narine Discussion Post 1

Hello everyone my name is Angeli Narine. I am guyanese and I am 19 years old. I graduated from the Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights in June 2019 and started attending BMCC fall semester in August 2019. I am majoring in communications because my goal is to become a speech pathologist. This is my third semester here at BMCC where I hope to graduate in May 2021. When I was about 16 years old, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was always that type of person to stick to my first choice of things. So when it was time to apply for colleges I already knew what I wanted to do. Becoming a speech pathologist grew on me when I use to babysit my little cousin after school. When I’d pick her up from school there was this one girl who was always playing with my cousin, but she was having trouble putting her words together and speaking when she was with my cousin and I honestly felt hurt because she’d easily get frustrated when someone didn’t understand her. She’d have these sad yet angry eyes. She would walk around with a pen or marker and paper to write what she wanted to say. Her older sister and I bumped heads one afternoon and she was telling me that her sister gets help from a speech pathologist in another school a few times in the week. Months after, I had noticed she spoke way more clearly, she wasn’t as scared to say things and she took her time becoming with speaking at her own pace. This inspired me and wanted to find out if there were more kids like this who had speech impediments who needed help. It turned out to be a lot of kids and I was instantly motivated and inspired to choose this as my career to help these kids.

Growing up I was always under a strict set of rules. I was never allowed to go out with friends and hang out because my dad always said I’m a young girl and I didn’t need to be associated with the wrong crowd to become distracted from your school work. No matter what, he always told me that school comes first, before absolutely anything. From being home to going to school to coming back home was the daily routine. I also had to learn to cook from a young age because my parents always said that its best to learn from a young age because I’ll need to cook for my husband so he can have a hot plate of dinner when he came home from work. My parents were old school and had the tendency to try and follow how their life was in Guyana and how they grew up. As I grew older, I learned a variety of new things and came across many different lifestyles. I’ve adapted to my own life style now where I choose how me being a young woman, should be treated and what tasks I can accomplish in the future for being a stronger more independant woman. Both genders aren’t suppose to be assigned a certain role of how they are viewed. Like for women, they are relatively referred to as the house wife and the man is suppose to be the one to provide for the family. He would be the head of the household. I see it as both genders work 50/50 and support one another. The couple balances it out together and make it work so they see what best fits them.