So they decided to take a leap of faith and seek adventure and growth as a family and as individuals.

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I mean, the point of this is to try to find out more about, I mean, my grandfather or your father and in relation to how they moved from place to place and how that move affected him and all that. I think that the first thing I want to start with is where, or in what area do I imagine they are in Spain, but in what area of ​​Spain was my grandfather or your father born?

Your grandfather, my father Jorge, was born in Talavera de la Reina, it is a city in Spain, a small city, now not so much it has become much bigger but now, before it was very small. So he was born there and he was the son of Ernesto López Parra, he was from a middle-class family, let's call it that, he studied law and worked on political issues and was also a writer. He was a writer from the generation of '27, so he was a very political person and he wrote things that in the regime that existed at that time, which was during the civil war, he was against, so they imprisoned him several times, he went from one prison to another. others for what he wrote and for what he expressed until he was locked up in one of the prisons in Talavera de la Reina and then they sentenced him to life imprisonment and there he died. Then my grandmother was also imprisoned for being this man's wife and then while she was in prison my father and his brother were transferred to an orphanage.

Until the Spanish Civil War ended, my grandmother was able to get out of prison and they moved to Madrid because my grandmother wanted to work and raise the children, so my grandmother worked in a perfumery. My dad, when he was 16, didn't have much money either; they were a fairly humble family, so he found a job in a Spanish bank.

Would you say that Talavera Reina's move to Madrid was a success? It was to get ahead, it was to have a better life, because my grandmother had to raise her children and she had to feed them and she had to and because the civil war was over, many people moved from one place to another to where they were living. In other words, it got worse, so there was much more work and opportunities. Do you think they were happier there in Madrid? Of course, because one was with one's mother and in the end they were still children, so the situation, being children, is that sometimes you don't see so much evil or bad situations in the end, well, they went to Madrid and there they lived happily, yes, it was to reunite with his mother and that is, and for economic reasons and because it was a better city, it was the capital. Well yes, and grandfather found grandmother in Madrid, they worked in the same bank, there they met, they got married, there they met, they had 4 children. Your grandfather lived in Paris for three years for work, but my mother didn't want to move from Madrid because she had her job and well, and then they moved away, my father came every weekend to see us. to improve the quality of life and there and that, I mean, that is another movement made for the better. one's search is economic, to grow work, to grow the family.

After some 30 years you found my dad through a group of friends that you were in. There we all went out together and after 6 months of dating and getting to know each other, we decided to go on a trip to the east coast of the United States, so we started going around, we had a great time and one of the wonderful places we went to and visited was the Colorado Canyon. . Well, there we were one afternoon watching a wonderful and beautiful sunset and there dad asked me to marry him. I accepted and it took us about 6 months to prepare the wedding, everything there requires a wedding. Well, there we got married and Pablo and Ale were born in Madrid. I had my job, Dad had his until one day Dad came to me and told me that well, they had offered his job and were offering how to go out to live and work outside of Madrid. Spain and well, we saw it as a great opportunity because in the end you have to leave your families, you have to leave your friends. In my case, I had to leave work because it was the move that Dad made, but the move was worth it, both professionally for him and, well, for me. We did it to find a better life for you and to try something new that could help us in the future. There we moved to Chile where you were born, and 2 months after your birth they asked us to move again, this time to the United States, and we would have to wait a little until you were old enough to travel. We did this move more to improve the quality of life, which in that case was a little worse but we did it for you again and so that you could see what it is like to move to another place.

All the movements in my opinion were successes, because with them they brought new opportunities to improve oneself and the entire family, in the form of quality of life, or joy, and also money, and all of that allowed us to raise 4 children whom I love and want the best for them.

I had to interview both my parents, and not my grandparents, since in the end, they are old, and its mean to reming an old person of their memory loss, and bring them back to times they might not want to look back upon. My parents had heard the same story again and again from their parents, so retelling it to me was easier than I thought. For this documentation, I wanted to choose a Padlet with a timeline and the interview at the end because I had used it many times before, and everyone had a good time using it, since it allowed for easy visuals and for better chronological order.

When I went into this project, I didn't expect to do much, but I started to get more and more invested into my families history. I understand now that moving is more than just wanting a better job or more money, its about taking risks that may not pay off, or might change your life, humans move in search for a better aspect in every part in their life. It's interesting to take a moment to talk to what your parents parents did for a living, because you really get to realize the change that the world and humanity has gone through in the last century, like transport, advances in technology, etc. We can see the difference when we compare the movement of my grandparents, where my grandpa had to travel by foot across his country, while I was sitting comfortably in business class, sleeping knowing I'm making it to my. The empathy you build for what others have gone through when you listen to an in depth story of their journey is like none other, and can only truly be explained if you encounter this opportunity yourself. How much you learn about your bloodline is only limited by how much you want to know and learn, and how much you're family wants you to learn. Luckily, my parents were very open about their history, and wanted me to know up to the smallest detail of suffering and change my grandparents went through in their childhood, and now I get to share it and let people learn about what its like to have a moving family.