I’ve always wondered what my ‘children’ (my students) will be when they grow up. I always feel overwhelmed whenever I think of them as future lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, or even a president! It’s so exciting knowing that they can be anything they want to be and that they have their whole future ahead of them. Now that I have a real child of my own, I get the same feeling.

Ramil and I promised each other that we will never dictate what Mateo will be. We will only try our best to expose him to as many possibilities as we can and it’s going to be up to him to choose which of the many possibilities he wants.

So right now, he can be anything he wants to be, anytime…

a doctor?

a painter?

a singer?

a chessmaster?

a guitar player?

a writer?

a computer programmer/expert/engineer?

a swimmer?

a fireman?

a basketball player?

or…

a superhero?

For now, it’s all a surprise for us.