catalina names
I’m from the world, it’s not me that seemed not to
this clothes could generate a tension
as to why I want to tell you that it was
it gave me a gift mohamed one
Spanish who converted to Islam and
He moved to Barcelona to Qatar where he
I knew he taught me a lot about culture
Islamic
He showed me the mosque in detail and
I think you have seen so excited
who decided to give him a fence when
I left there I remember being the
only one person from a huge group that
I went with a gift fence
I decided to wear the shirt many
blocks
in the anonymity of this black robe
I was a qatar and more without prejudice and
with love
this other outfit that you see here I
I bought a woman herself the ncaa some
know this beautiful island that frame polo
once called the flower of india
the ancient sailors called her being
endit that means something like
lucky find if lanka is a country
teardrop shape down india
where I met a woman who invited me
a tech when I went into his store had
blood everywhere
took out the color that I liked the most
bring forward a mirror and in question
of seconds he got that seven meters
of fabric will be as worthy as
all of them discovered then that
Mohamed and she had something in common
I loved what they did and they transmitted me
that love had made me too
I fell in love with them from their countries of
their culture of their stories
though in truth my first
experiences with love had been
much earlier when I was six years old
I remember that for that moment a rapist
serial was the center of the agenda
media used to attack women nearby
from the area of my school are happening
the news on the radio and I was with
my dad
we were alone and I remember hearing
say that I wish that man would die
with all the innocence of a child
I told Dad what nobody deserves to die
what struck me
it was not that my dad said that was the
reaction that he had after that
reaction of cerén depp
but inter did not stop the car on one side
He looked at me fixed and with tears in
eyes told me catalina be right what
that man needs is more love for
that today we’re going to pray for him and we’re going to
send him much love
I thank you all my dad’s life
for not contradicting me by meeting and
teach me that the world is not a place
bad that everything is a matter of love but
as life is circular and it envelops you and
it unfolds like a salt
it turned out that years later who
we would be in the news
we were saying goodbye to the first
murdered man in a closed neighborhood my
Grandpa my dad was broken and I
I told him that I wish that man died
with all the innocence of my dad in that
moment he looked at me fixedly and said no
catalina what that man needs is
more love for that today we are going to pray for
the person who killed grandpa and we’re going to
send him much love
from there I started cataloging the
world in two types of actions
he told me minimal or all that one
person does is an expression of love or
everything a person does is a
request of love there is no other variable and
although all are in pink
see the world this mode requires a value
immense because they are going to tell you that you are
crazy and that if you believe in love it’s not going
to go well when I was a girl I wanted to
to be a pediatrician I was not a doctor
because that would take us many years of
study in which I also wanted
travel and know the world and
paradoxically traveling I discovered
calling was a way to save the world
that’s why last year I went to do a
volunteering a very small orphanage
in the middle of small I contacted by
facebook with a guy who asked
volunteers for your project and I
I embarked on the most transformative trip
of my life
the answer I received when I said that
my verse the Africa are the ones that already
do you know oca can they kill you?
grab a disease
the answers were never kind to
that I answered you were all
people
No one said yes and it ‘s true
I could have died but I also
I can die in Buenos Aires in a neighborhood
closed from my perspective dying is not a
act linked to geographical location
although I had found that for many
people yes it was clear how we have
luck
I’m alive I started to realize that
Africa was the perfect metaphor
park everything I thought of the
lifetime
we all have an Africa a place
unknown to whom we have a lot
fear
a version of ourselves that we
we encourage you to travel a part of the world
that asks us for more love and leave
our comfortable area to travel that
place may be the most decision
brave that we have taken our life
but when you get to a place where
just with the name and that you’re going to die
it starts to get complicated when finally
I arrived in Kenya
I began to notice the dimension that was
taking my life was the dimension of
world that resonated within me in africa
for me it was a world apart awaits me
a man who supposedly had to
recognize among a million people
piled up that for me they were all
I did not know how to do it
I stayed for I was the only person
White skin
so it’s likely that he
you will find me first though
we had kilometers away and
that’s how it was , I was approached more than one
screaming offering me things touching me
the hair all very weird until finally
It appeared indicated that in an English
quite weird said Catalina and there
I knew that in that I had to trust
Yes, I’m very naive, but I’m not
I had many more options
so during the next three
hours I was sitting in the part of
behind a car with two Kenyans
forward that I practically do not
they addressed the word between them
they spoke Swahili all the way
meanwhile I imagined the
amount of things that could be
saying while thinking also all
the possible ways to pull myself from the car
in the event that those things were
true but if you do not say it if I do not
I threw the car was because constantly
I remembered myself
the beliefs that had brought me and
suddenly the car started to train
in a very narrow street that
it opened into a large gate with two
He masais spear at the entrance overtook
true science that that gate was the
door to the Africa that takes inside
as if on impulse I got off the car
while I opened the gate and the only thing
that I could see was more than 15 guys from
all ages living I find
screaming my name
I could hardly move forward I had a
avalanche of love over and that was one
of the most genuine encounters that
had had until then in the month and
the next half I got to know each
one of those guys in detail
I knew your heart stories your
joys and their sorrows all that
I made them and that I love them
as much as I understand
then that I had not had luck
to be alive have been lucky
know them of being loved by them
call them both and luck does not touch you
you choose and I had chosen to believe
in love above all things
had chosen to speak that language and for
that I always had it back and I started
speak that language long before I leave
trip and I keep talking to one and and
when I speak of love and of africa
I can not not talk about the and the Muslim
of the master closer to Somalia than
small where nobody goes anymore because
in when the terrorist group al shabab
well history more and more often the
woman as a world apart within
a world apart
therefore if it was already dangerous the
die certain death three point no me
I could convince not to go and I finished
falling in love with the master and his people
I have no words to explain everything
what I learned on this island
here’s where we met omar
we made great friends and just at
beginning of their friendship
I remember I asked him where are you
as with anyone who is going to
Become your friend
and his answer did nothing more than
verify why I should do it looked at me
stunned as if I was doing
a question as obvious as how many of
I have them without doubt me
he answered we have formed tomac omar had
reason
my question was obvious I also came
of my mother’s uterus and between him and me
there was no substantial difference
to help the children of africa not
you need to come with tons of water
I needed to listen to understand the
existential problems were the same as
the children all suffered and we
We were happy for the same things in
appearance we were totally different
but in the heart
we were totally the same
they were part of my identity
they will be my family and that’s why when
they ask me where are I from?
that I’m from all sides because I
I consider myself a citizen of the world and
citizens of the world
we wrote our own version of the
planet and to learn it
we left ourselves we felt
responsible for the entire world
not only on the one hand the citizens
of the world we tell stories based on
affinities and not indifference
we are able to look at a map and
remember how we were informed by the
people that we knew the things that
we saw and the places where we had and
We know that the true transformation
of the world does not come from what we are
doing but the conscience with the
that we do it and love is the
higher consciousness
under which a human being can actor
because it transforms even prejudices
deeper and I like to think
it does not matter how many times the public
more on our wall that we pray for
paris new york or barcelona in our
heads
we keep making war if every time
have someone ask them or tell them
are you going to Africa or do you want to go
to africa and you would tell him he’s going
to die
I like to think that citizenship
there is ay that is like a passport that
one is inscribed in the soul that says
I was born in the world
I consider myself human or political party
they are freedom and respect and my only
love is love
many
[Applause]
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