Thank you ate Virene for believing in me. It's an honor to share my story to your graduating class. Thank you. 🙏 When I was in 4th year HS, my English teacher told me, in front of the class, when I can't give comments about the book Romeo & Juliet, because I didn't read it and I couldn't speak English that time, "Allego, you will never become successful in your life because you don't know English!". 😭 I was stunned. That got into me. I was so intimidated of the English language and becoming successful in general. Because I believed my teacher. 👩🏫 Most of my College subjects were in Filipino. Komunikasyon I, II, III, 10, 100. Kasaysayan, Agham, Matematika. If I can skip English, i will. Until I can't because there's Broadcasting, Speech and others. I made sure I pass all of them because I didn't wanna repeat it. 📚 Fast forward Nov of 2003 when I first applied in the Call Center Industry. I was told that it's an English Only zone a