tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403935614118235672024-03-12T19:14:35.440-07:00Cuban Alien in London, Alien cubano en LondresArnaldo Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793389927238069741noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540393561411823567.post-52565579255182935182014-05-21T03:42:00.001-07:002014-05-21T03:46:34.394-07:00A por todas<br />
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Hoy he decidido escribir en Español.</div>
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Es esto una declaración? O que me he convencido de que no puedo más con el lenguaje de Shakespeare?.</div>
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El caso es que estoy un poco cansado de intentar recordar reglas gramáticales y tengo deseos de escribir. También me hace falta para no perder el hábito.</div>
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En estos días, además de reactivar mi cuenta en Twiter, he dedicido a abrir una página web para vender mis servicios como periodista, productor, camarógrafo y editor, todo ello al mismo tiempo y producto de los conocimientos adquiridos en casi 20 años de ejercicio de la profesión.</div>
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Aparentemente es algo sencillo pero no tanto si vas a tener en cuenta todos los nuevos adelantos tecnologicos y el consiguiente nuevo vocabulario que hoy utilizan los entendidos en la materia. Crear tu web es del carajo.</div>
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Que pretendes vender? Como lo vas a hacer? Será interactiva o no? Cuántas paginas tendrá? Que no sea muy cargada. No copies lo que dicen otros. No pongas links a servicios que otros estén ofreciendo y puedan llevarse tus potenciales clientes, etc, etc, etc.</div>
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Pero nada, el mercado lo impone y yo, como buen profesional del siglo XXI con deseos de vivir de su profesión(valga la redundancia) y no hacer los trabajos que se nos han asignado como emigrantes, uso todas las herramientas que tengo a mano.</div>
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Cuántas veces he comenzado un blog o tratado de crear una pagina? Incontables.</div>
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Pero gracias a la tenacidad de mi esposa, el embullo de amigos y la necesidad imperiosa de “venderme como pan caliente”, aquí voy.</div>
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En el camino, de esta segunda etapa de mi vida, he experimentado con la construcción, limpieza, gastronomía y educación. Todos estos trabajos me han rechazado, no estoy apto para ellos. No son deméritos, me han ensenado a valorarme más como ser humano, a probarme y a enriquecer mi background. No los desprecio, me han ayudado a poner comida en la mesa y a mantener a mi mejor contribución a este mundo, mi hijo.</div>
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Pero no me quieren, no por débil, si no por orgulloso.</div>
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Con esta web y el regreso a mi blog no pretendo comenzar a arremeter contra Cuba, una tendencia bien extendida entre colegas desperdigados por todo el mundo. Solo intentare acercarme de forma diferente, lo mas desprejuicidada posible, algunos temas. Así como poner mi intelecto en el mercado.</div>
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Intentare ser fiel a mi mismo, a mi particular forma de pensar moldeada por lo mejor y peor de mi querida Isla y de esta otra que me ha recibido, si bien no con los brazos abiertos, con una sonrisa a flor de labios.</div>
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Rockero que baila salsa, militante de “izquierda", ambientalista moderado; apasionado del gimnasio al que no le gusta jugar al fútbol y no posee habilidades para el béisbol. Como dice mi esposa, un cubano raro.</div>
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Como digo yo: Un Alien Cubano en Londres.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Desde hace un tiempo que veo publicaciones en facebook y medios online acerca hechos, decisiones y general deterioro del pasatiempo nacional de los cubanos. El Béisbol. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Todo va desde la supención de congas en los estadios, para posibilitar la “concentracion" de los jugadores, indisciplinas increíbles en el terreno que han traído por consecuencias riñas tumultuarias y culminando con la desastrosa presentation en la Serie del Caribe, a donde llegamos pavoneandonos y salimos trasquilados.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Que esta pasando? Se ha quedado atras el pasatiempo nacional?. En tiempos en que nuevos aires de desarrollo económico y levantamiento de a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ñ</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ejas e inexplicables leyes y prohibiciones recorren la Isla, el Béisbol va como el cangrejo, para atrás.</span></div>
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In all this time I have been thinking, analyzing and, at the end, I took the big step of changing my career. </blockquote>
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A big step to take at the end of my first half of century of living. I have decided to change from journalism to teaching.</blockquote>
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We thought that was easy. When I say ' we' I mean my wife, my mother in law and me.</blockquote>
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First of all, there is a need for qualified professionals who would like to be involved in teaching. </blockquote>
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Secondly, there is a need for teachers of Spanish because the UK government suddenly realised that Spanish it is one of the most frequently spoken languages in the world and that the economies of Latin American countries are doing much better, at the present time, than many in Europe.</blockquote>
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Thirdly, it is easier to learn Spanish than Chinese. That was our logic.</blockquote>
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So, there we go. We decided to embark on the journey.</blockquote>
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But it was a mistake to thing that it was going to be straightforward. Nothing is easy in this country and teaching or trying to teach or becoming a teacher is now quite difficult. </blockquote>
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First of all I had to convert my qualification into the British standard ones. And even though I had passed more subjects than the average UK student with distinction, my Bachelor degree and BA degree have been regarded as “mediocre".</blockquote>
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Yes, mediocre, even when I had General History, General Literature, Maths, Geography, Spanish Grammar, English, physics, Chemistry and Astronomy. Can you imagine? Astronomy. Who studied Astronomy at normal school in this country?. In addition, the application system is a nightmare: very difficult to understand and complex. </blockquote>
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Recently we discovered that the government department with the oversight of the Education System was offering advise on something that they called ‘ The Road in to Teaching'.</blockquote>
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There we discovered that after all my qualifications and my British M.A I can be the perfect teacher but, and always there is a ‘but’, it will be difficult for me to apply for the best programme because, according to the British standard, my qualifications are deemed mediocre.</blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There is another way. I can pay 9000 pounds if I can find a place as an English teacher</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">don’t qualify for a student loan because I haven’t been here for long enough.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> However I’ll carry on trying and maybe next year I will have a new post saying that I’m</span></div>
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Fishing trip in the south of England.<br />
We had some Pollocks. On the way back to land was very fogy and at some point was really dangerous because was impossible to see a thing, specially a little island that look like a submarine.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After four years<i>,</i> I was again invited to the US embassy in London to wait for the result of the possible, at that time, re-election of their first black president, Barack Obama.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time I was incognito, because on the last occasion, when people discovered that I was a Cuban from Cuba, they immediately ran away. At one point, I thought that I had some disease.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">He suffered attacks that look like the work of a Hollywood science fiction script: he was born in Kenya, is a communist revolutionary, or secretly a convert to Islam.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">However , that doesn't mean that we have a bad relationship. On the contrary, they now call me Chacha Arnold, which means Uncle Arnold,in Pakistani, because I'm the oldest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That friendly treatment began when I started to learn some words in their language. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In all the years living here, I have learned that the best way to build a relationship in an immigrant environment is to trying to learn, at least, a few words in your colleagues' language. That has always worked and it is working now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have also discovered that the majority of them are well educated. There are some people writing their PHd dissertation and my supervisor was a member of his country's national shooting team which is very impressive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I still don't understand how it is possible that 70 percent of the shop staff are immigrants. The proportion is divided between a majority of Pakistanis and Indians and a few Caribbean Africans. The rest are European with only two British people.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is surprising in a country where people are looking for work, shops and business are closing down and the unemployment figures are rising. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Maybe it is the survival instinct witch that drive every immigrant to work no matter what. Maybe that survivor instinct breeds dreams success. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This phenomenon not only happens in the developed countries but also in the developing countries where one can find specialist personnel from the countryside fighting to make their livings in the big cities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, despite right wing's comments and racist comments in some of the press immigrants labor are the backbone of this country. Does Britain need more of us?. Who knows?</span></div>
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