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BE WHO YOU ARE, NOT WHO THEY WANT YOU TO BE (Art. 2)
It was the start of the course, and everyone in the class knew each other. But there was a new student
in the class that year, Claudia.
When she was a child she had an accident, she was in the car and it crashed. She survived but she lost
her leg and now she has a prosthetic leg.
At the high school everyone looked at her badly, they had never seen anyone like her, and they started
talking and laughing about what they were seeing. She felt very different and lonely because no one
wanted to talk to her or be with her, she didn't feel welcomed.
The course was ending and she was still lonely, nobody wanted her. At the high school they used to do
a running competition and nobody wanted her in her team because they thought that she would make
them lose. Finally the teachers put her in a team even though they didn't want to be with her.
The competition's day arrived, and they were all ready. The members of the team told her that she
would be the last one because she was the worst, they thought that she wouldn't run at all.
Furthermore, they needed to win to show their talent to a very important athletics trainer that was
going to be looking at the athletes.
The team was losing because they were the last ones, but just at the moment that Claudia had to run
because it was her turn, she made a sprint surprising all the students and spectators. Everybody thought
she wasn't going to reach the goal so they made a bet. They bet that she would fall and she wouldn't
reach the line of the race, because of her leg. However, she contradicted them by overtaking everyone
and winning the race.
The audience went to the track to celebrate it and congratulate her. Claudia's team was very happy and
exited because they won and it
made the trainer be interested in that team. When the trainer came to choose the best team, he came
close to Claudia's team and pointed at them, the whole team was very excited because they thought
they were all going to be chosen. One girl of the team asked when they were starting and the trainer
said: