My mom, Martha, enjoying a day at home with me and my sister.
About Martha A. Perez Rodriguez
I was born in Leon, Guanajuato, and when I was seven-years-old, we moved to live in Guanajuato, so originally I came from Leon, but, most part of my life I lived in Guanajuato as a child.
Some history
My dad, in his work, he worked for the Federal Commission for Electricity, which is the Light Company in Mexico, they relocated him from Leon to Guanajuato, to a better post, so he decided that we should go live there.
From Guanajuato, there I studied, I arrived there in 3rd grade of primary(elementary) school, I studied secondary(middle school) and elementary school(high school) in a catholic school of nuns and then, I then studied high school in the Preparatoria Oficial de Gobierno(Official Government High School) and from there I studied a technical career in Programing for computer programs, and after I left there I worked year and then I got married and that was when I moved to live here in Tijuana.
When I married I came to live here, because the person I married to was from Tijuana and studied in Guanajuato, so then we were a couple in Guanajuato and we got married in Guanajuato, but we came to live to Tijuana, because we thought that in Tijuana; in Guanajuato there not many work chances, and we thought that in Tijuana we would have more chances for jobs.
My first job was in a company that was called DataCenter, and I lasted almost 25 years in that job, and was as a programer. And as a programer my boss had faith in me and started raising me from my spot and kept raising me until, when I started in a company of 25 people, we reached almost 2000 and I was manager of various departments.
It was great. It was a beautiful experience, it was also thanks to him(boss) that I got my bachelor’s degree, I just had Preparatory, which is High School, and a technical career, which is the 2 years college, and he gave the opportunity that while I was working; your sister Laura was still young, you haven’t been born yet, when I started studying, and he gave me the opportunity to study, and while I was studying, you almost came into this world, am was pregnant, so I was in my classes and I got really tired and I asked permission to my teachers to stay standing because if I stayed sitting at my desk, I ran the risk of falling asleep. So you got to come with me for the bachelor’s degree, and there you were giving company in my classes. And after I got my bachelor degree my boss told me ‘You can deal with the master’s degree, so get it’ so I kept studying and I got my master’s degree.
It was complicated because when you were born I had to leave you at the caretaker since you were very young and that was the hard part for me, not having you, leaving you at the caretaker was what was hard for me, because I left you since you were very young, I went to pick you up late and we spent very little time together. The little time I had with you I made the most out of it, I hugged you, I smog, smooched you, I attacked you with kisses, do you remember?
And the weekends I tried to always be with you, to enjoy you because since young I had to leave you at the caretaker as I went to work.
Well, it could be the separation of me and your dad. I believe it was the biggest problem. We had economical problems, but you didn’t notice or we had other types of problems, but I think the strongest problem and that affected you was that.
Changes
We can only adapt to the changes of life. And there are going to be changes now and there are going to keep being changes, and for you there come a lot of changes, because you’re in high school at the moment, there comes college, comes university, comes the job, comes marriage, comes children, in comes many changes; and every change teaches you something, and you have to embrace every change, because is like, like you when you were little, everyone was saying like, ‘oh wait until they turn three, they’re the best’ and I said ‘false, for me the best moment is now’ a month or six, I enjoyed you a lot every single day of your lives, and everyday is different and everyday you do something different.
Now that you ask me, ‘have we change?’, you change everyday, everyday you grow a little, everyday you learn a little, everyday you think different about something, the same as a baby. Everyday you change, change, change, change, change, and the most beautiful things is to enjoy those changes.
And enjoy you a lot dear, everyday, every. single. day, and the changes surprise me every time, it surprises me what you learn, and to me what is important is that if I learned from my mom, all the good and all the bad, you both learn all the good and all the bad from me so your children are better, and that they get better, and better, and better, and get better. So me and your aunts are the first generation from the two families of professionists, so it’s being a good improvement, and now is your turn to be better, and make a better world for your children and they do a better one for theirs.
So, every change is beautiful.
Present time
Martha, now lives with me, my sister and her husband in a one floor house in the USA. My sister is still trying to convince her to get adopt a cat or a dog.