Defeat (extra points)

Defeat, it is a word that terrify a lot of people. It is word that stops a lot of people doing a lot of things. No person in this world wants to suffer a defeat. For me defeat can be left behind. It may be difficult to let behind but it requires an effort and if a person is willing to make an effort to succeed defeat doesn’t have to mean such as much as it means. There is no person in this world that hasn’t suffered a defeat in his life. Some of the most successful people in this world have suffered a defeat. The difference between the people that succeed and the people that doesn’t succeed is the willing to make an effort.

For me defeat is a thing that doesn’t worry me. I don’t think there is a reason for a man to stop making his best because of defeat. For me defeat doesn’t mean the end of the world. Defeat may worry me a lot but if I make an effort to succeed it is left behind.

The most recent defeat that I have was that I failed my German exam. The exam is the pass for you to keep advancing in classes. I a person fail the exam he can choose whether to pay a reposition, 150 quetzales, or going back in classes. I didn’t want to talk about the situation with my mother before thinking of it. I don’t think it’s fair to my parents to pay for my German classes and I am losing the exams.

There was another kid that lost the exam too. We asked the teacher what we had to do. She told us that we needed to talk to the director. We don’t feel confident when we talk to the director because he is kind of scary. We go to the director’s office. At first we were very shy when we started talking. The director said to us that we could make the exam whenever we wanted. I was going to say in three weeks but my friend said that we could make it next Saturday. When he said that I was thinking to myself that he has thought it very well, and it is too fast.

The director set the reposition next week. When we get out of the office I said to my friend that it wasn’t the best idea to take the exam next week, because we needed to study a lot. I knew that not only me but my friend have to study a lot.

Between the week I wanted to talk to my friend to ask him how was he studying, because I didn’t have any idea how to begin studying. Unfortunately I didn’t have my friend’s phone number, so I could not call him. I was very worried by the situation and I really wanted to study but as many times I forgot to study.

It was next Saturday and I haven’t studied, my friend that has to make the exam too wasn’t there. I was not going to make my exam that day because I haven’t study. Then my friend came and I ask him if has studied, and he said that he didn’t. So we received the class and went home without making the exam.

Next Saturday I came to my German classes. I haven’t said anything to my mother so my plan was to pay the exam with my money. I went to the cashier to pay the exam. The cashier told me that he couldn’t accept cash, only credit card or in the bank. I couldn’t make the exam and my friend didn’t come. So I have to talk to my mother about the exam.

 I talk to my mother about the situation and I said to her that wanted to continue learning German but it is being difficult to me to advance in class because I find German very hard. My mother asked to me I wanted to make the reposition or going back in class. It is a hard situation because I want to continue learning but sometimes it is better to go back to learn better.

I studied all the week and next week I made the exam. My friend did it do. Today I don’t know yet how I did in that exam, because it was one week ago. The importance of this story is that I don’t worry if I don’t win the exam because if I lose it, it means that I need to study more. So if I lose the exam I will ask the director to take me back in classes to learn more because the point of learning German is not to pass the class but learn.

Chepe a special person to me (extra points)

It was March in 2004. I just came home from a tire day of school. I had just win my math exam for which I had studied a lot. My mother came and joined me while I was eating my lunch. I could notice that she was worried and she wanted to tell me something. I was waiting for her to tell why she was worried. I continued watching a movie that I like a lot which is called the last samurai. I liked that movie because I like the samurai philosophy.

The movie has ended. I had just finished eating. I was going upstairs and my mother didn’t tell me why she was worried. I started doing my homework when my mother came to my room. She continued being worried. She showed me a sad smile. She told me that chepe was hit by a car, and he was very bad. But he was alive, the problem is that he was hit in the legs and walking would be even more difficulty.

Chepe is the man who came every single day, riding his bicycle, to clean the neighborhood´s cars to get some money in exchange. He was born with a leg problem and he couldn’t walk normally. It was hard for him to stand in a same place. He also has a daughter who can’t walk too.

Six years before Chepe was cleaning some house’s roof. He was going up in the lather, when the lather starts loosing balance. He felt the he was going to fall so he tried to go down. He made a movement and it make the lather to fall. He hit his head with the floor. My neighbor was walking near the accident and he took Chepe to a hospital.

In 2006 the condominium’s people decided to dismiss the condominium’s guardian because he wasn’t taking care of the job. No one in the neighborhood knew who could be the new guardian.

 I came out of my house to ride bicycle. After a long time of riding my bicycle I was getting tired. I was just going to enter my house and I saw Chepe going up the street. I was very surprised to see him walking. I haven’t seen him in two years. I could notice that it was hard for him to walk. I decided to stay in the street to talk to him. The closer he gets the closer his smile was. I was surprised that with all the things that happened to him couldn’t stop him being happy.

I start talking with him and even when he talks he has a smile on the face. I asked him how was he doing and he told me that he was having a hard time with his family because he spend one and a half years without working and still without job. He also told me that he thinks he was blessed by god to still alive, and he is thankful every day to be alive. I asked him how he was doing with his leg problem. I thought he was going to tell me that he was sad and stressed because it is very difficult for him to walk. He told me that he was happy to be able to walk even that it is hard to get a job, but he was happy.

After a long time of talking I get to my home. My mother was making some calls to look for a new guardian. I told her that I just have a long talk to Chepe, and I ask her if he could be the new guardian. The neighborhood is very calm so we don’t need a tough guardian or some military, so she went running to the street to ask Chepe if he wants to be the guardian. I could see the happiness he has through a big smile in the face. He accepted to be the guardian. He spent  4 years being the guardian but sadly in 2010 he started to be unable to keep working so the condominium has to dismiss him.

Chepe is an important person to me because I consider that he is one of the most inspiring people in the world. Since he was born he had a lot of problems in his life, and I can swear that I have never seen a sad smile in his face. Every time I see him he is with a big smile and laughing.

Actually Chepe is still alive but she is very bad in help and my mother and the neighborhood continues to help him giving him some money.