A school teacher

I don't think I remember many teachers from my school because during my primary education I changed schools a lot, until in high school I arrived at a girls' school, it was a Catholic school, where they put a lot of emphasis on religion. I have never been Catholic, I have always been an atheist and it has always bothered me when they try to convince you with beliefs or thoughts different from mine. However, it was the best school in the area and I preferred to attend it anyway.

All the teachers had a similar way of thinking, religion and politics were two topics that could not be talked about, especially when your classmates grow up without class consciousness and giving their opinions based on their privileges. I found school really boring because they were the opposite of what I was, which is why I was always getting into trouble for my way of thinking.

I remember going to the first year of high school and the teachers changing, that was where I met Professor Catherine, the new history teacher and our new head teacher. At first I thought that her classes would be the same as the rest and I would listen to the moralistic speeches of a Catholic school again, but she changed that. Her classes were entertaining, or at least for me they were, because she always spoke from what she had experienced. That was where my love for Chilean history began.

The truth is that I have never been interested in the wars that occurred in the world. I found it so boring and the way they explained it was so unentertaining that I forgot things. But this teacher taught us the other side of history, that of a Chile that had suffered a lot, of a Chile that was betrayed, silenced and hurt, full of resentments and differences, which unfortunately some continue to deny.

I saw her for the last time in 2019. At that time I was in third year of high school and in 2020 the pandemic had already started, so I did not see her in class again. However, we follow each other on social media and even though we no longer talk, I can see how she is and that she is still teaching classes.

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