Looking for myself, the break point

by Cinthya Morales (Mexico)

A leap into the unknown Spain

Once you turn back and look at your way, you find that every step guided you to where you are now through the adventure called life... This is Cynthia a 33 years old Electronic Cibernetic Engineer Mexican Woman, now I want to share a little but important part of my story. When I was 29 years old I was living with my parents, I had a Truck, I was working for an important reseaech centre , I had boyfriend, a pupy, I was living in a City near to the beach (a paradise) ; I was doing what was expected but something inside of me was screaming for a change. My desitions was being influenced by my family, it was hard to know what I really wanted, many people was expresing their thougs about my relationship, finally I broke up with who at that momento was my boyfriend. I used to navigate on a ship because of my job, after I broke up my relationship I had an oceanographyc cruise. I was at my bed when I realized that I had been doing wat was spected by the society, at that moment I realized that I needed to go away to look for myself. Months latter a friend invite me to surf, it was the first time that I was going to do it but I acept. The first time I was unable to advance, the waves just throw me back one and other time. My friend was a Real surfer so it was frustraing for him, he look at me and then look the at the away waves. At the end he just told me "keep trying" and then he went surfing. It was funy, it was hard but I enjoyed it a lot, the sensation of being en volved by the waves was amasing I felt that I was alive. Time later I shared my experience with an old friend, he also liked sufing so as I mentioned that I enjoyed the experience he decided to become my máster. We started practicing two or three times a week, we begin with the basic: practicing jumps at the sand, reading the waves, swiming to the point were the waves begin, sitting in the surf board, making ducks, geting waves and leting the waves to throw us and geting the surf board again and get on the board. It was amasing, later I received an email, it was an announcement to be part of the first TEP (Technological Entreprenourship Program) programa at Marina Xemein at Basque country. At that momento I feel that it was my oportunity to find myself, I had being experienced amazing things on the last monts with the surf so now I was more entusiastic about life, adventures, exploring the World, meeting other culture, other people, being myself, looking for what I was lost time before. The pourpose of the program was to give the bases to create a company, the programa consisted on 8 months of intership in which the participantes was going to take 3 modules, one of polymers, another of entrepreneur techniques, and the last one for a practical project to create a company. For me it was like a dream, since long time before I wanted to create my own company. The requirements for the TEP program were to write a intentions letter, the visa, to sent CV and personal papers. I shared this new dream with my friend and surf teacher, he suported me by the hole process. Months latter a aceptance letter came to my House anouncing that : I had being selected as one of the participants of the TEP program!. After that I anounced at my job that I was going to quit to go to the programa and my bose asked me if I was sure about that desition and that "once you quit you can't came back" . Geting the visa was an other aventure, first time it was denied because I went to a counsul that I did not belong, the second one because there was a missing paper, the third one my visa finally was aproved and it allow me to start the travel to find myself again.