During this last year I have realized that many people, including myself, have been going through a lot of movement, change, tension and conflict in emotional and work issues.
Sometimes we think that when things do not turn out as we expect, we have not done things well or we are not good enough. Now I think that this is not the case, that we are misreading the events.

After more than 15 years teaching Spanish I have learned that one of the reasons which motivates people to learn and speak this language is to explore and learn about the diversity of hispanic culture in the different countries, races and customs. 

In recent years I have seen that many of us are taking concrete actions to change the negative situations that are happening in our world, in our countries, in our cities, and in our neighborhoods and families, such as violence, guns, terrorism, cancer, injustice, poverty and corruption. We join together to attack these problems with demonstrations against these negative events, but many times what we are really doing is putting more energy to these problems so that they continue to happen and become bigger. I wonder how to be more effective in these campaigns or rallies to change and improve our world.