how it feels to be afraid I know
I will write from my perception
sweating in the hands
butterflies in the stomach knot in the
throat a feeling of wanting the
earth swallows us we forget how
we call ourselves is what happens when
we are in the classroom and the teacher
Call us to make an exhibition
orally or when we are in the auditorium in
our name pronounced because the
time to get on stage
some of you who are here
tonight he has experienced some of
those feelings
well then they identify
with me I learned to be afraid from
very small
I think that was one of my first
learn the fear and I learned it in
home
I was born and grew in Manizales
I am the fifth in a family of ten
children and it turns out that we had a dad
pretty hard
that dad was the one with whom
answering was bad but not doing it
as well
then we did not know and then I went to the
school and at school I do not
I found a very different picture
because it was that letter school with
Blood enters the school where otherwise
was the correct answer was the
teacher to say he has his hand and takes
or they quietly gave us the pinch
I remember very especially in my
third year of elementary school
a teacher I remember her face I remember her
first name
I remember his last name and he marked me very
especially in that learning and fear
the fear because it was the one that always
first he had his gesture his
gathered was the one that was ready to
call us fools and I remember events that
they scored a lot when I did not have
silver to buy house
china to do the sketches of the
maps that at that time touched us and
loyo on paper in my presence
broke the map without even checking what
thrown into the trash basket because no
It was made on cardboard
the day we had to do the
gift for mother’s day very day
special for children and we’re going to do
some cats and it turns out that the fabric that I
I took an old cloth because I did not have
to buy a new fabric and I do not
they allowed to make the gift for me
mom and it was a big frustration
apart from the fear then it was the
frustration those years do not pass them on
the school the house and the house the school
begging God to make me
invisible because I did not want service
I did not want to be exposed
I did not want to be embarrassed of any
impasse way 11 years of my life five
years of primary school six years of
high school being invisible
behind a desk
I think my classmates not
they remind me because I was that partner
invisible
is that when already finished
school can not go to university
because my family did not have the means
economic to pay it
then there appears in my way a great
opportunity and it was an institution
state education that provides
Free training and it ‘s dinner
I started at dinner to study a
general secretariat and it turns out that
I knew that philosophy of this
institution that training
integral professional
but apart from knowing that philosophy
I had the opportunity to meet with
an instructor who marked me
already from the positive side was a
instructor that made me visible that I
he moved from the back seat to
forward with her I learned that inside
I had much more to fear had
more than fear that there were illusions that
there were projects that had goals by
fulfill and I prepared to fulfill them
I dreamed of working in this institution
and I had the opportunity to do it that way
which is an entity that has accompanied me
in a whole process of being apprenticed to be
secretary make instructor be
academic coordinator and in this
dynamic moment of tecnoparc and me
when I had the opportunity to be
teacher was the moment where I told myself
good if there was someone in my life in
a time difference marked as
I am obliged to return it
then I will do with those
students the same thing that this
instructor with me I’m going to start
make the invisible visible
I’m going to start learning stories from
life I’ll see in those thirty
students that come to me every morning
what happens to you and forget
also that I do not agree I do not
I know who came up with some
moment to think and say that the problems
that personal situations remain
outside when one arrives at work or
when he arrives at school or when
I arrived at school when the
university because it is that we are
one and in that unit we have everything
then I am the daughter but I am the
Mom, I’m the sister
I am the person who works and before
be the professional I am the human being in
essence that we all are and that was what
I thought here what I have is 30
people are 30 being humans with whom
I have to do work
all my class sessions
independent that my areas were
techniques because my profession
then it was systems engineering
they started with a reflection with a
awareness and the first day of
class with groups
we talked about topics that are very
transcendental and they are very important
topics like love themes like affection
issues like that fear of doing
ridiculous and that fear of making the bear and
from that experience that I brought from
have lived that school and that
experience in the house and having had
that change because he invited them to that with
the greatest of the affects but also the
The greatest respect is respect for
difference
respect
for that person who did not have the same
rhythm or goya things as fast as
the other partners because it is that the
truth is that we are subject to a
educational system where successes are
show for the achievements of those
students that from the beginning already
they are demonstrating light advances that
they are already more advanced and it turns out that
we have to change that
We have to start teaching success
to show by the results we have
with those apprentices that are subtracted from us
win with students who stay
back with the students who ask to be
invisible but with the background of his
heart has a lot to give and what
they want is to be visibilized and sapone
teaching experience and it was a job that
I was doing alone and having those
institutional principles of the sena that
They are very cute and they were the first
in forming me but already when I had the
opportunity to be a coordinator
academic well I said good is the
moment to transfer this to an entire
working team and looking for this
work is not only done by one person
by two by three by four by five
but it is the work of a collective
also that those principles
institutional elements of that training
integral professional that he had in
It counts both knowing how being and
as doing so they do not stay in the
paper that was worked by
absolutely everyone was the moment where
we coin the phrase form in affection and
grow in respect
that phrase became our
slogan and we did all the activities
of awareness to make all
we appropriated them and started
live it on a day-to-day basis and in each
opportunity that we had there something that
it’s called evaluation committee and
follow-up that I think all the
educational institutions do not have and is
that mechanism to look at the cases of
those students that presents frequent
absences that have delays that
they have low academic performance that
they have disciplinary faults
and what we set out to do was to look for
those evaluation committees and
follow-up transcended the
compliance with the regulation and that we
become in that instance where
we will know life stories where
we knew what was behind a
late arrival behind the
I had frequent absences
behind the disciplinary offenses of
our apprentices and so we started to
know a number of stories from
apprentices that needed to be
rescued they needed was a hand
lying to return them to the process
we have the case among many that we
caused immense satisfactions of one
of our students a young man of 18
years that he was about to retire from
a technology and we discover looking
his story that he was a young man who was
little had lost his mom that
he lived alone in a room and
before arriving at dinner was ago or
in family homes to survive
we find the case of an apprentice who
for his shyness and for that fear that
still brought for the company and the
company returned it two three weeks
after saying that it did not serve him
nothing and thinking about that of the
eclectic wisdom and that in this
world there is nothing and nobody so bad so
bad that does not have something good nor so
well so good that I do not have something bad
We said good we will give you the
opportunity we are going to invite you to
work with us and do your practice
as an internship because it was the
apprentice who stayed to work with
us and it has been more than 14 years
the institution and our young man who
mentioned earlier he finished his
technology made a successful practice
in a major company in the city and
at this moment is taking place in
Medellin your life project like these
apprentices
there are lots of infinity and not only in
the cen a we have them in schools in
schools have them in the
universities the theme tonight are the
young people as engines of transformation
and for young people to be motors of
transformation
we need committed teachers
Engaged in touching the soul the heart
and being determined to make visible
the invisible ones bent on bringing
forward to the stragglers
I read a sentence a couple of days ago
directed to the parents that said papaz
treat your children carefully because
They are made of dreams
I want to bring that phrase that night
I only bring it for dads for
people who are in charge of other
people but I bring it very
especially for teacher teachers
our young people are made of
dreams are made of illusions
they are made of hope and
we depend that your dreams
hopes those illusions flourish or
that those dreams
those hopes and illusions die and
they go out how life goes off
how many life transformations
we could do if we formed in the
Affection and we grew the respect
and
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