LETTER OF INTENTION

By: Sebastin Posada

My name is Sebastian Posada, I was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1988, and Im a powerful,
congruent and charming person. I live in El Poblado with my parents and my siblings, my older
brother Nicolas is 28 and currently works in the IT Department of PELDAR OI, he studied Business
Administration in EAFIT. My sister name is Veronica, she is 24 and studied Graphic Design in UPB,
currently she is working at the Museo de Antioquia. My father Felipe works as a Life Coach, and my
step-mother Lina is the manager if her fathers company. Thats the brief about my family.

As for myself I studied high school in San Ignacio de Loyola and graduated from there in 2006, at the
time of my choice of studying an undergraduate program I wasnt very mature and conscious and
so I made the decision of studying International Business in EAFIT, this decision was mostly
influenced by my advanced knowledge of English at that age, I got 84/100 in the MELICET Test, EAFIT
required 75/100 to admit new students in this program. I finished my studies at EAFIT in June 2012
and started working two weeks after my graduation ceremony in a software company I was there
until November 2012, but I had differences with the manager so we both decided it was time for
me to leave, after that, in February 2013 I started working at Protokimica S.A.S. as a manager of
Imports1, I worked there for 1 year and a half but I decided to change my life and so I recently
resigned from that job and started anew, currently Im enrolled in 3D Digital Animation and
Modelling. My passion is video games, fantasy and science fiction, Ive always been very geeky and
have collected and painted many fantastic miniatures and played many video-games, thus I want to
start a career path in that field. It is fun to know that much part of my English comes from doing
those activities, since most of the material is English.

As for the moment I want to teach English to deepen my knowledge of the language and at the same
time earn money to fund my living until I finish my recently started studies, besides I will have the
chance to keep perfecting my English until Im ready to leave to the USA to keep studying in about
1 year and a half. I have to acknowledge that the experience of studying International Business in
EAFIT polished my English thanks to the subjects I went through in English language and the chance
I had of doing my 1 full year internship in Arizona.

I have a special strength in my English, that is, I know how American-native people actually talk in
their natural environments, and I know how they refer to things in a regular day to day basis.
Normally, when people learn at classrooms they learn average grammatical structures and the way
the language is correctly spoken, -which is very good since is a primal approach to the language and
strives for the long term survivability of the correct spoken English- nevertheless when people go
outside and start to get related to natives from whichever English Speaking country they are visiting
they start to see that the actual way people speak differs a bit from what normally is taught at class,
a lot of idioms, expressions, contractions, and slang is used to communicate in the day to day life,
for example, I lived in Arizona and when I got there I notice people use a lot of slang, for example,
they say Legit when something is nice or over the standards, or they would say this is way through

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As a International Bussiness Assistant I had to speak, read, write, and listen English all day long. I had the
opportunity to speak English with Chinese, Korean, Indians and Japanese, which is quite a experience
because it is very hard to understand their pronunciation.
the roof. Normally people in classroom dont get this sort of tips on how to understand the native.
So I think with my knowledge of the day to day expressions and idioms I can add new knowledge to
the classes and also share some of the aspects of American Culture I have experienced first-hand,
this is always striving for teaching a proper and correct English, but also teaching how can people
better relate to American natives.

I am creative and cheerful person, but at the same time a very grounded and serious person when
the occasion needs it. Im conscious and I can easily distinguish the seriousness or joyfulness of a
situation to adequately behave, so I can take care of a classroom easily. I have been in many
Coaching Training sessions and I know which are my weaknesses and my strengths. I have gone
through Coaching with Vision & Enfoque, Ingeniera de lo Imposible, my father and many other
institutions. I like working for myself in order to grow smarter and wiser each and every day. I know
I can contribute with wisdom and problem solving attitudes if any occasional discussion or situation
between students arises, this means I can also exert discipline if needed.

My weakness as a teacher is the knowledge of grammar, and although I recently took a quick
grammar course with an experienced teacher I still have a lot to go in order to improve my grammar
knowledge. I need to build up more knowledge on this topic and I expect to do it as I start teaching.
The source books used for the courses are a good way to start learning as I teach, and with my
discipline I can get the hang of it. Another strategy I will use is doing a proper preparation of classes,
investing at least 1 hour everyday to prepare my classes so I can come with a proper line-up of the
activities the group will be working on during the classes.