Someone Significant

I think that everyone found someone significant at some moment in their lives. A significant person has a great influence on the life of the person that considers him or her this way. And do you know what makes someone significant? If the answer was “No”, I think I could say that is the fact that most of the time the significant people are really good in what they do, they are natural leaders and also because you care about them and they care about you. Depending on the attitude, values, personality and habits of that significant person, he or she could have a positive or negative influence on the other person or people lives. Throughout my life I have had several significant people but I want to talk of one in specific.

“Muy buenos días mis hijos” is the phrase she usually use to greet us when she come to our class. “Desconozco esa información” is another common phrase she uses as an answer when she doesn’t know the answer to one of our questions. Gradually she decreased the use of these phrases because some students tease her (but no in a rude manner). Another thing I can say about her is that many times if she doesn’t know an answer she leaves us as homework to look for the answer of that question.  I could say she is the greatest social studies teacher I’ve ever had and she became one of the significant people in my life since last year when I first knew her.

Her name is Veronica Jimenez and I don’t know biography facts about her life (logically) because I’m her student. Miss Vero is extremely intelligent and she knows a lot of things about history (notice that usually she doesn’t use any book to teach us!).  She likes to teach us social studies in a very entertaining way. I don’t remember that I liked this subject so much as I do now.

She has wavy brown hair, and if I remembering well she has blue eyes. She is average height and has a normal body complexion. Another thing is that she has this interesting accent and the perfect tone and volume of voice to keep everyone interested in the class also she has an excellent lexicon which she likes to use. She says she likes coffee a lot but that she tries to not drink so much coffee as she was used to. She is very strict and most of the time serious but no angry, she likes to laugh at some of our jokes, she is very funny and even sometimes play jokes to her students, for example the one she played at a girl from our class sometime ago. The girl came to the class early and asked to her if she may go to the bathroom and Miss Vero said “yes”, the girl leaved and when she came back Miss Vero closed the door and said that she couldn’t get into the class and that she will take a report for being late. The girl went worried and upset and after some minutes Miss Vero opened the door and explaining to her that everything was a joke  every student (even the girl that was tricked) start to laugh.

She likes to teach us using photo-essays, because it makes the class more interesting. She use (sometimes) interestings mechanisms to make clear her point about something, for example, the time she made everyone to stand up and kept like that with all our stuff; next, she said she wanted all of us to copy what she was saying, but she was dictating one hundred per hour. The rules were that no one could move a little; no one could speak, laugh or make noise; and everyone had to use different color pens to write the titles, numbres, etc., but the most scary thing was that that exercise was our quiz. One by one a lot of people started to move or make noises and Miss Vero said that those who had made any of these things had lost the quiz. Finally, when a lot of us "had lost the quiz" she explained that she made that execise to give us an example of the bad working conditions during an important period on history.



Parque Centenario



She likes to tell us anecdotes about some themes she teaches to us like now we are seen the armed conflict in Guatemala. For example, last Friday she told us that while the internal conflict was taking place, the October 19^th she came to a speech given by Oliverio Castañeda at the Parque Centenario in zone 1 and after he gave his speech Miss Vero told us that she leaved from there with her friends and while they were going on bus they listened on the radio that Oliverio was just murdered. After telling us her anecdote, she started to explain us everything about the internal conflict and the reasons why the anti-communist army murdered Oliverio.  By anecdotes like this one the class turns more interesting and things like this one are the reasons why I like so much this subject and why this teacher is a significant person for me.