Journal II

This chapter is dedicated to my teenager stage when I was on secondary school. I didn’t love this part of my life. Every day I used to wake up at 6am and I was at school from 7 to 2pm. I didn’t like to go to this school. For some reason I was very shy in this stage of my life and I had problems making friends; the teachers were always like angry. I only had two teachers that I admired and like to be in their classes; but the other were always complaining. I think I understand them a little better now; it must be quite a challenge to work with teenagers. And my school, especially, had many problems because there were kids from difficult and dangerous neighborhoods.

I learnt many things in this part of my life, but truly, I wouldn’t like to live it again. Now I can say that teenagers pass for many difficult changes. They have hormonal variations which make everything different, there are physical and emotional changes. They realize that their parents have mistakes, and that they have to find their own path in live. I can say many things about this stage, but this words aren’t usefull when you are living all this. Not everything was bad anyway. I had some good friends. Especially one, who is still my friend.

In my free time I used to read a lot, I read many many books. I didn’t used to go out. I didn’t enjoy to party a lot and be outside. It was always more interesting for me to sit down and read a good book. I used to read Emilio Salgari, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ángeles Mastretta, Dostoievsky, among others.