This is my entry for the #BeautifulSunday challenge, initiated by @ace108. Thanks, my friend!
And I'm also posting today inspired by #SublimeSunday, a tag from @c0ff33a! Thanks!
Today I'm writing about a different matter I use to on this challenge. I'm writing about a personal matter. Happiness!
And a Victory!
A Beautiful and Sublime victory I'm telling you about this Sunday!
As some of you may know by now, I have a son and a daughter. He's 23 and if finishing Vet school, but wants to be a musician.
She's 20 and for a long while ago she wanted to be a doctor. She wants to be a plastic surgeon (a good investment for me... I wanna be her guinea pig ;)).
In Portugal, where they both live and study, it's almost a miracle to apply and get admitted to the Medicine college. Corporative interests, they say. The Medical professionals bar also involved, they say. I don't know the reasons, but the truth is that, in a 0-20 grade system, you can't even dream about entering the Med school if you have a grade under 18. There are no private colleges. Then, only a few students get those grades and graduate. And Portugal ends up hiring foreigner doctors, mainly Spanish.
My daughter ended secondary school with grade 18, but the admission examinations are surreal and she has been trying, in the last 2 years, to raise her final grade (17,3) and be admitted. But at the same time, she was learning Spanish and, this year, she applied to several Med Colleges in Spain. And she made it! She was admitted in Barcelona, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, and Badajoz.
She chose Salamanca, the oldest and one of the most prestigious Universities in Spain - 800 years old! She's starting in September and is so excited about it! She went there to know the city and fell in love with it! And I know that, now, I will start to go there more often!
I love my country, but in this matter, I truly question its strategy. How come a country affords to treat like "garbage" 17,3-grade's students, high potential future professionals that end up dynamizing the economy of other countries while studying and, eventually, will stay there as professionals and contribute to making those countries richer and even more qualified? While has to hire foreigner doctors, as, in Portugal, there aren't enough doctors for the country's needs?
I don't get it.
But never mind now! I'm happy! She did it! She's a winner!
Thanks for reading and supporting me as a proud mother, my friends!
Be blessed and have a wonderful week ahead!
Thanks, @ace108 and @c0ff33a :)
Have a great Sunday, my friends!
Hippiesoul @nolasco
Isabel
www.isabelnolasco.com
My original text and photos, from my balcony. (Canon 5D MkIII).
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