Why did I choose this career?

When I was in school I always loved biology and then at high school, I had my first chemistry class: I hate it! I spent the all year hating it and hating the teacher!

Then, in second grade of high school a new teacher came into the chemistry class and I understood that I don´t hate chemistry as I thought and actually I was good at it.
I started to study even more than needed and I used to help to my classmates after school.

I realized that I enjoyed teach people, so with some friends that like to teach history, maths and language, we started to teach to some children in Batuco and help them with their homeworks. We even created a “summer school” with 50 children, adding workshops, sports and music.

When it was the time to choose a career I was really confused between being a chemistry teacher and being a health professional.

One day I met the ACHS´s pharmaceutical chemist and she let me know the place where she works. It was amazing! Drugs, labs, patients and I realized that I wanted to be a pharmaceutical chemist too. That’s how I came into this faculty.

Nowadays, I´m happy with the career. Besides since last year I teach chemistry in a “popular PREU” in Peñaflor. At last, I could join my two ideas and I´m really happy. 

She is my high school chemistry teacher, Clara Brito. I still talk with her. :)