Wednesday 4 January 2017

Post 9: A Day to Remember


This memory I always have in my head. It happened in the middle of the year 2008. I was studying in the University of Santiago, it was my first university year studying Public administration. At that time I had a friend and classmate named Amador. He studied in a school in the commune of Cerro Navia and had several difficulties to study.

I remember Amador was a spokesperson for the student coordinator. He appeared many times on television explaining the student demands of that time. He was very clear in expressing his ideas and with a strong political conviction that excited. I knew Amador wanted a fairer world without inequalities.

In that year we were several months without classes due to the student protests. Amador was always one of the most present in what had to do with the student resistance of that time. He was a leader and besides all that, he was a good friend. By his humble origins he knew what it was to grow up in a world full of difficulties. At that time his mother died of cancer, his father had died several years ago, so he remained in the care of his younger brother.

When they returned to Amador, they threw him out of the university because he could not pass the mathematics course twice ... because his school had not had any logarithms. At that moment something changed in me and I understood that had to change the educational system. Someone bright as an amateur could not continue studying because his school did not give him the necessary tools to be able to do it in the University.