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Do you speak another language besides Spanish?
"Before yes, I spoke French, but many years years ago that I had no one to talk to and, therefore, ... something I handle, today, but not much at this minute. I want to go back to do a course (Laughs), to resume it, I would love to return."
Do you ?
"Yes, when the Pope came, he made "zillion thousand" years ago, in the year '87, at that time I was in the University, I spoke French, then I was working in the editorial and press center in the "Hotel Carrera" at that moment, and I was in charge of French and Belgian journalists, it was something like a coordinator, we are talking about people coming from abroad who do not even know where the "Palacio de la Moneda" is, something that is so common for us, they have no idea, then, then we are the ones who kept them informed of everything, who were the ministers, who were the authorities, where was the park, where was ¨I do not know¨, whatever , there we were for that, and there I had the French and Belgian journalists because that time I knew how to speak French."
"The Pope in Chile, 1987"
How many years have you been working at the school (Woodland English school)?
"In the school, since 2004, twelve years, more or less?"
Have you worked in another school?
"Yes, I worked before this in the "Liceo Carlos Condell" and that was in 2003 in the "Carlos Condell" and between 2000 and 2002 I worked as a substitute in different schools of Mulchén and here in the "Colegio Concepción", and that ... and before that, for 10 years I worked in a bank because I have another profession, I'm a financial technician too, so I worked on that."
Do you like your job? Why?
"I love it... I love teaching, I think one makes a contribution, that is, I think that when someone comes to earth, he has to do something positive for the people around him, for the people who need him, so ... I feel that this work gives me the opportunity, i don´t only work here, I have worked in Universities, Institutes, I do trainings and especially adult education and there you can see ... one feels super useful, when you can help someone, and that's why it also gives me a lot grief when children who have all their abilities do not develop or do not accept the possibility of wanting to learn, th ... they do not know how important it is, and I have to see the other side, people who, who some day wanted to study and could not because they had to work or because the wife had a baby, whatever, fifteen, twenty or thirty years later, they owe the need more than urgent to be able to complete this stage, then it gives me, I feel sad, a young man, a child does not take advantage these opportunities that others ... would like them, let's say."
If you had to teach some other subject that had not been history, which one would you have chosen?
"I liked biology a lot when I was in college, I liked it as much as history but "I did not have a stomach" for biology, I think that was fundamentally. It was super good, I ended up with excellent averages, in fact History and Biology, the average in 4th medium was 6.8, both, not in other subjects of course, in Mathematics, no, but life has many twists, I left the University, I studied history, as I said was what I liked the most ... and it took me a while to find work, in a series of situations, the thing is, as I said before, I worked ten years in a bank and there he arrives without knowing anything about a ¡bank! (Laughs), and I had to learn, and I got into a lot of courses and between those years when I studied, that is, when I worked there I studied the Financial Technician as i commented, and then I studied Engineering, I missed a semester to finish already, and although you do not believe it when I told you before, when I do trainings, I do "Financial Mathematics" trainings, I do Financial Mathematics classes for bank tellers and things like that, they are not very hard mathematics but I do classes of that."