My Dreams for the Future - Fall 2006
Contest is now closed

View Student Entries

Frank (Cranbrook)

My name is Frank. I am in grade nine. I have spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and I have many dreams and goals for the future.

I intend to finish high school and go on to university. As for my career, I’m considering becoming a university professor or a teacher. There are few reasons why I think this would be a good career choice for me. I enjoy being in the spotlight, I’m good at public speaking, and I really like explaining things to people and helping them to understand new concepts. This year I am taking drama at school and I’m also doing peer tutoring. Both these things will help me if I decide to pursue this dream. I’m not sure what subject I would like to teach yet.  Science is a possibility, as I am good at it and I enjoy most of it. I am sure these dreams will evolve as I go further in my schooling.

Of course my career choices aren’t my only dreams for the future. I have three dreams related to where I would like to live. I would like to move to a warmer climate, I’d like to live in a small city, and I’d like to stay near my family. As for a warmer climate I was thinking of Victoria or somewhere else along the coast. I would like to not have to deal with ice and snow and cold all my life.  In regards to staying in a small city, I’ve grown up in a city of 25,000 people and enjoy the convenience of everything I need being close to home. When I’ve visited big cities it seems like too much of my time has been spent in traffic.  My extended family is scattered across the North American continent so I suppose it would be possible to stay close to at least some of them. If all three of these dreams could all be realized, it would be great!

I guess dreams are just that, dreams. It’s the concrete goals that I like to focus on, like my goals of finishing school and going to university. The rest will fall in place. Where I will go to university and what I will finally decide to do afterwards aren’t clearly in focus for me yet, and that’s okay.  My biggest dream is that the place in the world and the career that I finally decide on will be enjoyable, challenging and satisfying for me.