It has been a whole year since I left for Argentina. About to be my senior year in college, I just finished my 6-week internship in Indianapolis with La Plaza. I am taking the GRE in two weeks; don’t get me started about the nerves!
I started reading a book yesterday called “Sandino’s Daughters, Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle” which is very much like the experience of the Madres in Argentina. This is their story, straight up from interviews. At a time like this it really perturbs me that I am forced to worry about standardized tests…I am bored sitting here, waiting for the test, and I wish I could be doing something else. These women were part of something, they really had to move to get what they wanted, and they fought very hard and never stopped. It’s amazing when you see real people do what other people told them was impossible. Many of them died and were tortured, just horrible things, but in the end, they won. They changed women’s status in their society.
I need to stop being afraid of everything, things that don’t exist, and just jump. That’s the only way I’m going to prove myself wrong.
