At the Puente house they told me that I am like Mafalda, the one in the comics. I didn't know her, they gave me a book to read her stories, but I haven't had time to look at it yet. I don't know if I look like her because of the tangled black hair, the wild eyes or for always being contrary hehe. But I'm afraid it's because of the last of the three.

I arrived in Queretaro when I was 16 years old, now I am 26 years old and almost 10 years living in the house of El Puente de Esperanza I.A.P.. In my last year of high school I had to decide what to study next and the orientation tests that we were given at school and at the house directed me towards scientific careers in the medical field and at the same time towards handicrafts, because I was good at precision work. One Sunday after Mass I talked to a young lady, I told her that I was thinking of studying dentistry (since I combined the medical and handicrafts aspects) and it turned out that she was a dentist.

At the Korean factory they gave me half a day's training and put me to work on the machines. It was no big deal, you had to cut steel pipes with the cutters and remove the burr. I had the night shift from 7PM to 7AM, 12 hours, the bosses were cool, they gave us unlimited water and coffee so we wouldn't fall asleep on the machines.

I have been working for a company as a project engineer for twelve months now, and I have been out of the house in Puente de Esperanza for eight months. In January I moved out on my own and I am still not used to cooking only for myself. At the Puente I used to prepare at least 5 kilos of food at a time, now at home I make a pot of beans and even that one gets spoiled! I still don't calculate well.

It is not supposed to be the first time that I became independent from a family: at 15 years old I left my mother's house to come to live in Querétaro and enter the Puente program.