Ready as a soldier when a door of opportunity opened

   When i turned 18, my possibilities of going back to school again were lost, but hope was the last thing i would lose.  When i was 12 years old i stopped going to school for many reasons.  Then at the beginning of each year of school i would only wish to go back to school.  But, when i turned 18 i realized that my possibilities of going back to school were over.  So, i forgot about school, and i decided to move on and look for some adventures, which was to come here.  When i came here on March 20, 2006 i didn't think of school or learn a second language, what i wanted was just to enjoy living here and work a lot.  That was enough for me.  After, enjoying San Francisco and working hard for six months, i realized that i needed to do something more else, but i didn't know what would be.  On August 16, 2006 i asked for a day off to celebrate my birth day on August 18, and that same day i met the owner of the restaurant that i work for.  The manager gave me the day off, but the owner was not sure that i was already 19 years old, so he asked me if i go to school?  Of curse my answer was no, thus he asked why not?  I didn't know what say that time, so he started saying ''you should go school so you can manage my restaurants, and i think you are under 18''  Later at night i arrived at home, and started telling my bother what the owner of the restaurant had told me.  My brother goes ''it is up to you there are a lot of city colleges here where they offer free English classes or where you pay a little to take other classes''  After hearing to these two great people, and from that moment i could see a big door of opportunity opening to me, which was to go back to school again that i always wanted to do when i was younger.  On August 19, three days later i was sitting in a classroom at Civic Center Campus.  I had registered for three ELS classes and a computer class, and i had quit my day job.  I felt  unbelievable, i felt like i was born again, i felt so excited like how i felt on my first day in elementary school, and i felt the joy of school in my heart and the joy of learning new things.  I was very thank full that life gave me the hope to go back to school.  So, from that time i have never stop going to school   or  learning new things.  And hopefully i will never stop going to school until i get my degree, which is my goal, but who knows what can happen tomorrow?  However, now i'm just going to keep enjoying school and learning new things.
   I took this picture last year.  It is a Grace Cathedral Church, and it is located on Taylor and California streets.  I Chose this picture because i like its structure and especially its front, and since my first job in San Francisco was near this awesome Cathedral.