Talking about more specific things, I am 22 years old, I was born on November 09, 2001. I was born in a town called Fomeque, there I spent the first 4 (I'm not sure) years of my life with my two parents. Currently I live in Choachi a beautiful village where I am happy to be and I find myself studying a bachelor's degree in Spanish and foreign languages at the University of La Salle (yes, I travel every day from Choachi to Bogota) and I am in 9th semester.

Was I going to have a sister or brother? I was excited at the time but I had no idea what it was like to have a sister or brother and most of all I didn't know what it meant to be the big sister.

I love my dad very much, he has done a lot of things for me and to this day he has not left me without study.

I love my mom

Since she was born I have learned to live with someone different from me, I have learned to share my tastes and know her tastes, the attitudes she can take and most of all it is the habit and assimilate the change that caused in my life.

At my young age of 7 years old, I started a stage where I spent more time in hospitals for medical appointments than at home One day, a strong pain attacked my feet that wouldn't go away with anything, and the only way to relieve that pain a little was with hot water. My way of walking had changed, something in my hands was different, and that alarmed my parents a lot. After countless medical appointments and visits to the doctor, none of them knew what I had, what that illness was Then one day, a doctor gave my mom a glimmer of hope when he said that what I had was something very rare, a virus that floats in the air, affecting 1 out of 10 people and that person was me. I got Guillain-Barre syndrome, it wasn't that advanced when the doctor discovered it and that's why today I can say that I'm healthy but I must admit that they were a very dark day, they were months living in a hospital suffering the application of medication injections and not being able to sleep or eat well and on the other hand my parents spending money, my dad working and not being able to be present and my mom not being able to visit me every day because at that time my little sister was a newborn and it was not good for her to be admitted to a hospital.

Over time everything improved, I was able to leave the hospital and be at home, but without neglecting therapies and some visits to the doctor, but in order to get better. To this day I have not experienced anything as strong as having that disease again, although if I had sequelae it is not something I cannot live with and I am very grateful to be able to be healthy today with my full ability to walk, run, swim and talk.

At university I met many different "worlds", people with tastes, ways of dressing and speaking very different from what I was used to hearing in my town, for example; It happened to me that Yuliet, my friend from all my career, did not understand certain words that I said to her when we spoke and that I used in my daily life to talk to my family or the people of my town but she agreed to get to know my town, to know what the atmosphere and the people of Choachi were like and to try the different gastronomy that is found here and today we are still good friends and when she can she continues to travel to Chaochi.

One of the first shocks I had was to meet in the school corridor not one but several children who had certain disabilities such as a level of deafness and therefore their only way of communicating was through sign language and it was something in which I did not have the slightest knowledge and that caused a problem when trying to communicate with them. I recently finished a sign language course at university, and thanks to that little but important knowledge I gained, I now understand more about deaf people, whether they are children or adults I know how they learn and how I can help them I'm aware of the options for working with them, and all of this has improved my ability to communicate with them

In one of my internships I had a child who had Asperger's syndrome, I knew absolutely nothing about that syndrome but in order to be able to work with him and be able to communicate and understand him I started to investigate and I knew a lot of things and so I managed to have a different perspective, I managed to see the world in a different way, In addition to the fact that the boy had no family, he was taken in by an institute that took care of his food and clothing, and thus entering that world I understood many things about life.

Finally, this experience helped me to get to know a little different contexts to which I am not accustomed and to which I had not had any kind of contact

Not sharing his way of acting and thinking distanced us and that was a great impact for my life, it made me understand how life can change by the simple fact of not sharing something with others, I still don't know what learning this experience leaves me but I hope to discover it very soon.