Post 4: The Best Mistake I have Ever Made.

The Best Mistake I have Ever Made.

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 I really like the topic you’ve
proposed for this post because it’ll allow us to get to know each other more!
Having said so, I’ll tell you a story of a very silly and impulsive decision I made
many years ago and that, looking at it from now, was in the end a good decision.
It was the year 2010, the earthquake and its massive natural and social aftershock
had taken place during the first part of the year and being already mid December
we were, to be honest, a bit exhausted of all the circumstances of the famous and
memorable 2010.
Back then, I was living in Los Angeles (as you may already know) and I was
working in a couple of universities teaching courses related to my area of
expertise; One of the courses I was teaching was a course on Translation Studies
for the Translation programme of a well known university country-wide.
As I told you, it was December, the exams had already been taken and one
Sunday I was marking the exams and a friend of mine tells me “I found really,
but I mean really, cheap tickets for Buenos Aires but the plane leaves in 5 days’
time”, my head went crazy, I felt it was a very good opportunity because we
found the tickets with a 70% discount in Christmas time and I had never been to
Baires. After a thought I said “LET’S GO!”
Five days later, in the morning I was giving my students the final results and
leaving to Argentina in the afternoon. Of course some students never showed up,
and they did not have a mark.
I had a wonderful time with my friend, we really enjoyed ourselves really much.
We came back after a week, and I found that the students who had not shown up
had presented medical leaves certificates and that I should have been available
for their “repetition” exam. Well anyway, I got in touch with those students and
finish the semester.
Later, the institution (private university by the way) decided not to use my
services next semester claiming I had “abandoned” the job, which was entirely
untrue because they had hired me only up to the date of the final exam, but
anyway, what the heck!
Later, after the festivities, I came for a trip to Santiago and by chance, I was
needed here and finally I started teaching here at Uni, so, one way or another, it
might have been a very bad decision but in the end, it was all for the best
(maybe).
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