Don't lose your hope BY MARTA MOLÉS
The private notebook of Maria Alonso by Maria Alonso
Maria Alonso was a little girl that lived in Barcelona with her parents and her big sister. She used to go to a school near a big park called “Parc Güell”. She was a very active girl with a lots of friends.Maria’s father worked as a teacher of mathematics and her mother was a policewoman. Claudia, Maria’s sisters, was only two years older than Maria. When Maria grew up, she started having problems at school, she was very bad at mathematics and technology. Her parents were very worried for their daughter, so Maria stopped doing all the activities that she used to do after classes and started doing extra classes of the subjects that she had problems with. At the same time Claudia was in the first year of secondary school. She was a bright student.
She was a bright student. She was good in all the subjects. At that moment Maria began to feel inferior to her sister. At the age of seventeen Maria had her secondary education graduate, a year later than it was normal. She decided to follow the footsteps of her sister and she started a higher education course. After a few years she failed and she decided to stop her studies and started working in a little clothes store. Maria worked in the store for a lot of years. he had a lot of free time and she started drawing. One day while she was working, an old woman entered the store to buy a dress. Maria didn’t know it but the old women was a very important writer.
Suddenly, the old writer asked Maria if she could see her drawings. The woman was very surprised and impressed with the drawings and then the writer decided to ask Maria to be her illustrator. Nowadays Maria is an important illustrator, and finally she found what he liked and was good at it. All the people in the world have a place, although they don’t know. The only thing that you have to do is to investigate and one day you will find your own place.
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