I have been an adventurer.

I was 18 years old when I was about to get my nursing degree. Once I turned 19 I already obtained my degree and immediately began to work in a town in the plains of my country.

After 6 years of practicing my profession as a nurse, I retired, and ended up at the opposite end of my country. I went to study in what would be the longest adventure that I have had to live in my life.

In this my city there are beaches of all kinds, with clear waters, so clear that you can see the fish swimming around you. You can see the most wonderful sunsets, with infinite shades every day. There are mountains with diverse vegetation, if you like plants, you can see a wonderful amount of plants where your sight passes. You can see the rivers, enjoy its fresh waters with fish of different colors and if you have imagination you can build a bonfire, cook and place a hammock to spend the day in any of its rivers.

Although I had all these gifts from God, I did not want to study at the university of my city but at the university in on the Andean mountain range, there I spent the 8 years of my health career.

But this was an odyssey for me. Back then I had a Malibu, a 4-door vehicle. Such a good car! He was with me for my entire career but after I finished studying I changed it for a more modern one. I know, it sounds like I’m being ungrateful. I drove up to 17 hours from my city to the other pole. Worst of all, I get giddy when faced with curves on the road, and by that I mean I get dizzy in the curves, with all the consequences of dizziness of course. I spent 8 years studying and it was 8 years of dizziness back and forth. I tried taking medicine to avoid motion sickness, then taking medicine to sleep during the whole trip, when I had to ride the bus. Just go through those curves of the mountain range, fast asleep, and wake up on the other side I wanted. It was only a terrible two hours of winding road… Those were the times.

Even today I don’t get too happy for trips on roads where the curves are so tight and with so many turns, I’m very happy when I hear that we can go through highways to avoid them. Well, I'm talking about back then, when highways were built in my country, I think that by now that word was abolished from our dictionary.

Anyway, I like to travel with my family and friends. While I was studying I made a lot of trips. Too bad I didn't have a camera and after I got it I didn't get to buy another film for the camera.

As a student I had so many enjoyable memories! They are so precarious and such wonderful moments that living them to remember them later is a pleasure.

While studying my degree I had to travel to many cities around the university. We could choose to be in another city to see more subjects and advance faster in the race, so I took 8 subjects and I grabbed my car, my things and moved to another city to see the last subjects of my career.

I moved, did my subjects and then I had to travel to another city. This city depended on the University of the Andes but it’s located in the plains and cattle region of the country, it’s also close to my mother's house. This extension of my university had to be done to finish my career’s pensum, with something called rural internships. For 6 months I traveled every weekend from the hospital where I was doing my internship to my maternal home.

On these roads there are no repeated or winding curves. It was a pleasure to travel. Every Friday at noon, my colleagues and I would get in the car and come home to return to the internships on Sunday at noon.

And thus, in a few words, an 8 year university stay passed. I’ll tell you about some of those adventures on another occasion.