1. My mother was born in Valladolid, on the 20th of April 1967.
Her mother, my grandma, is called Raquel Garcia and her father,
my grandpa, is called Abelardo Manzano. She has one brother,
Jose Manuel Manzano García, born in 1970, aged 42.
My mother started school in a centre called Fray Luis de
León in a neighbourhood called Las Delicias, and she did
kindergarten and first of EGB there.
When she was 7 years old, she moved to Laredo, to a school
called San Vicente de Paul. In Santander, she made a very
important friend who “marked” her life, the sea. She also met a
girl called Amaya, who now lives in Galicia and her son is my
mother´s godson. Every summer we go to a village in Galicia,
called Xeve, to visit her. When they were kids, the lived in front
of each other and they could talk from window to window, face to
face. In fact, they agreed to show up every day at more or less
five o´clock. One day, it rained so much that there was a little
flood and streets were now streams. People couldn´t walk, so they
had to move across the city by boat. It was like a little piece of
Venice. Most weekends they planned to see each other at the
harbour. They played a lot, catching octopi, running away from
the waves in the sand and things like that. There was a little
stairway to the sea, and they bet on who could go further without
getting wet, of course, both got wet.
When my mother was 10, she went to her first summer camp
in Polientes, situated in north Burgos. In the camp, she did a lot of
activities and played a lot of different games, she even had a
swimming competition and won it. For her, it was such and
experience because it was her first summer camp ever.
That same year, she moved back to Valladolid. It was very
difficult for her, because she had to say goobye to a lot of friends,

2. including Amaya, her best friend forever and trust me, my mother
hates goodbyes. However she still kept the house and she went
every summer she could to Laredo to spend everyday with her
best friend.
They had to move back because my granddad was fired for
his political ideas from the Magefesa INC, a pan factory. In those
times dictator Francisco Franco governed, and my granddad was
stongly against him. My great grandfather, Isaias, was jailed for
his ideas, and even wrote a book on his experience. My family
has always been republican, for a lot of generations. My
grandmother, especially her, is the most one today. She doesn´t
miss a single demonstration and is strongly against today´s
governing method.
My mother returned from Laredo to Valladolid and returned
to the Fray Luis de León. She had friends there, but not as good
as Amaya. She started to develop a taste for music, and took
piano lessons and music notation lessons. In the music school, she
did three Amaya-like friends; Estrella, Belén and Nuria.
She finished 8th
grade of EGB and started BUP in the
Delicias high school. She continued having those music lessons.
In the high school, she met a group of people that formed part of
a leisure association called Nueva Unión. They played with kids
using public installations like the Parroquia de Santo Toribio and
the Centro Cívico de las Delicias. My mother loved the idea, and
she liked to have relationships with kids, so she signed up and
entered the association as monitor. In Nueva Unión, they used to
made summer, winter and Christmas holydays camps with kids
from all over Las Delicias.
In the Delicias high school, she finished BUP and started a
medicine baccalaureate. She didn´t like her choice at all, so she

3. changed from medicine to science. When she finished it, she
spent a whole year in dedication to her music studies and got a
title, she could now give music lessons to kids, it was her first
job.
She now got more free time, so she spent it in Neva Unión
and she met who was going to be my father, Jesús Hernández.
Jesús is the son of my grandparent Sinforiano Hernández ( who is
actually dead ) that occupied a very important military position in
those times and Julia Cifuentes. Jesús is actually the singer of
Celtas Cortos. He has two siblings, Paco Hernández and Rosa
Hernández. Paco is the oldest, Rosa is in the middle and my
father is the youngest.
My mother now was aged enough to start university, and she
started it in 1986. She wanted to be a Biologist, but she couldn´t
afford to study in Salamanca just with the music lessons and my
grandparents´s income, they weren´t very wealthy at the moment,
so she picked medicine in Valladolid. Her true passion were kids
and knowledge, so she did a teacher degree. She liked teaching
due to the music lessons with the kids. She had several problems
because she couldn´t coordinate studies, love and music teaching
very well. She finished her degree and continued giving music
lessons. Now, she had enough money to pay herself for her
studies, so she went to study psychology in Salamanca. She
started to work in a teachers cooperative in Salamanca, and gave
music lessons there too. She joined the cooperative in 1990, while
she studied psychology. This teachers cooperative worked until
1993. From 1992 to 1993, she did the psychology doctoradeand
got the title of doctor in psychology.
In June 1994, she presented herself to the civil servant state
exams and passes them succesfuly. Previously, in October 1991,

4. she went to live with my father, they were both completely
independent now, they were living together, my mother was 24
and my father 25.
She started to work as teacher in a village called Portillo in
1994. She would work in Portillo and in Mojados from 1994 to
1995. She worked in Laguna de Duero, Boecillo and Viana from
1995 to 1996. She worked in a village called Villafafila from
1997 to 1998. She worked in Pedrajas de San Esteban from
2001to 2004. She worked in Cigales from 2004 to 2005. In 2005,
she took a very important exam, if passed, we would move to
LONDON, and she passed it. She worked in London from 2005
to 2011. For me she is a working class hero.
In 2012, she had to come back to Valladolid. It was another of
those deep goodbyes my mother hates so much, she had to say
goodbye to an entire school, kids, friends, emotions, experiences,
sensations and things like those.
Previously, in 1996, she had given birth to my sister Violeta
in the Hospital Clínico. She asked for a maternity leave and she
didn´t work for the time she spent in Violeta. Then, in 1998, she
gave birth to me in the Hospital Clínico too, asked for a maternity
leave again and stopped working for a couple of months.
Nowadays, she is taking an E-master through the Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and taking French and Italian courses
at the Royal Academy of Languages. She likes to travel,
gardening, she loves the sea, the mountains, she has fun while
making sport, cyclotourism, reading, classical antiquity and
music, Africa, nice cinema and cooking.

5. Her future desired plans are to work in another country again,
retire in a warm, beached city and buy an apartment with a
window facing the sea and a little greenhouse on the backyard.
This is the story of my mother´s life.
I would like to dedicate this biography to my dog who has
helped me and has always been there with me.
THE END.

6. Her future desired plans are to work in another country again,
retire in a warm, beached city and buy an apartment with a
window facing the sea and a little greenhouse on the backyard.
This is the story of my mother´s life.
I would like to dedicate this biography to my dog who has
helped me and has always been there with me.
THE END.