FLAG RAISING PROGRAMME SILVIA CRISTINA GONZÁLEZ

January 25 th , 2008

3º D

Introduction by Miguel Onofre

“SCHOOL, A PLACE FOR COEXISTENCE”

School is a real coexistence laboratory. A potential deposit of citizens, with values that reinforce our ethical precepts. It is also the place where we learn the basic notions of knowledge disciplines, and where we learn our role in society.

“LIVING TOGETHER AT SCHOOL”

Childhood and adolescence are the two most relevant stages in our growth. We live them between home, school and the neighborhood. The situations that we experience in these environments become our everyday life. Most of the memories that we have from these early years rule our life experience. Among these environments, the school time is the deepest experience and also the most exiting, because it is here, at school, where we face the world of knowledge for the first time as well as the signs for our future vocation.

Besides contributing very strongly in our academic skills, and to develop our studying ability, school also provides a chance to coexist for the first time as well, with people different than our family, such as classmates, students from other classes, teachers and administrative staff among others.

School time is one of the most fun, enriching, unforgettable and unique experience that we might live.

Cuando me miro al espejo
Cuando me miro al espejo
veo una imagen de niña
alta y flaca,
con aspecto de pájaro
que se alimenta únicamente
con las frutas de la lluvia.

Soy tan joven
que pienso que mi corazón
es una muñeca de trapo
que tiene por corazón
a una niña alta y flaca
con aspecto de pájaro
que se alimenta únicamente
con las frutas de la lluvia

Pero a veces,
me siento muy antigua,
como aquel día
en que el profesor de historia sagrada
nos habló del paraíso terrenal
y contemplé tu cara pecosa
y tu mechó sobre la frente,
y cuando volteaste la cabeza
y me sonreiste
la piel se me puso de manzana.

Jairo Anibal Niño