Wilbert (center) and some of his pupils
Dar y Recibir By Prof. Wilbert Salgado Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Email: wilbert_salgado@yahoo.com Post 208
Throughout my life I have met lots of people, but mostly teaching professionals with plenty of interesting personal (life) stories to tell. Wilbert is one of those individuals you get to know and learn to appreciate as a human being and as an English Teaching professional. Born in Nicaragua, Wilbert has a story to tell, and part of it is told here by him –in Spanish. Last year (2015), after nine years of not seeing or knowing anything from Wil, I got invited to participate in an English teaching conference in December in Managua, Nicaragua and went back in touch with him. He greeted me as if those nine years of my absence were unimportant and talked to me as if time meant nothing to him. Reading Wil’s narrative over here will give you an idea of how difficult life is for many of us, but dreams can get to materialize because of the presence of generous people who come in our lives and leave a permanent imprint with such a strong ink that it cannot be erased. That ink is what we could call as finding the way to be retributive with those great things life have given us all.
Empecé a trabajar desde niño para ayudar a mi madre y mi hermana a sobrevivir la hambruna de los Ochentas. Con el pasar de los años, ya sabía vender mis habilidades en carpinterías, bloqueras, talleres, jardinerías, o en la calle con la pana de pollo o el fajo de periódicos. Era un mercader de mis habilidades—me pagaban por hacer cosas. No esperaba nade de nadie que no fuera la oportunidad de ganarme el dinero decentemente. Tal vez por fortuna o no, la vida me puso gente en el camino que cambió mi mentalidad con su generosidad. Con el tiempo aprendí a pasarla y entre más daba, mas recibía.