A person that I admire

I have always felt admiration for those people who are able to stand up to their convictions no matter what else they say or think of them, fighting for what they want until the end.

Especially I  feel admiration for those women who manage to stand out for their personal prowess in a world so male chauvinist, that is why one of the people I most admire is Lucila Godoy Alcayaga better known as Gabriela Mistral, who was not only a noted poetess but also a wonderful educator.

Lucila was born in a village in the north called Vicuña on April 7, 1889, in a humble home starting a teaching career very early, because with only 15 years old was named as assistant in the "School of the Company Low ". In 1910 he moved to Santiago where he passed the special exams in the Normal School of Preceptors, at this moment she began working in different schools throughout the country.

From then on she began to gain an important international reputation for both her political career and her literature, literature that in 1945 led her to win the first Nobel Prize for a Latin American author. On January 10, 1957, after battling an aggressive pancreatic cancer, Lucila died at Hempstead Hospital, New York.