A fear and a Dream (in English and Spanish)

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A fear and a dream

A story of inspiration and perseverance

((Swimming champion regional) (in five parts))

A story based on real events, using real people as ...

Part One

The Post Office

(The winter of 2002)

(Winter 2002, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) who are descended from his great U.S. Mail truck abandoned 4th Street, the center of the Mississippi River, on the cold morning of December 22saw a woman of small size (cm 1104 feet elevation), a bit 'stiff from the cold, with a poker face Peruvian and a pleasant smile that extends from every corner of his mouth, and nearly pure dark brown hair that seemed to more black and brown.

"A small number of drivers," said someone in the group outside the post office, eating their meal, smoking cigarettes. Had commented on his size and determination to drive a big truck that men usually just pushed themwas a carrier post office, just learned a year ago, riding at the ripe age of 43 years of age. Men who had never seen her earlier this month was his first guiding thought there was something inaccurate in their eyes because of so many people, men and women in the state of Minnesota, driving mail truck. So he saw his business go around with a snarl, his eyes tense, but purposeful, as she disappeared into the front seat of his big truck with alarge pillow behind her to support her shoulders, and pushed forward five feet, and another big pillow under her for her to adapt to the wheel chair and prepared for the short to reach the foot pedal gas. And then I went to do their job, and maybe some other thoughts, knowing that seeing her. And that was all.

And who has seen this little beauty in a post office one year after they drove these large trucks, saw her as one of the leading storytellers, awork required six years of work at the post office, not a plus, the net capacity in mathematics and social skills to deal with the public, a task that a person need to know two languages, but not required (because it was one of the few, very few full this requirement), and would move large bags of mail, you drag around, when not working as a storyteller, and in time a very short time, promoted, and received the answer, do not expect dazzling employees, but envy andjealousy, deep penetration, especially in the lazy, but those who complain that the masters and fierce converts to rest very quickly, put them in a second-class status, saying that his skills were far above them. This made everything had already won twice, for non-Americans in the breadbasket of America, which had a work permit, married to an American, had met its demands to be an American, and that (the year of 2004) inforty-five years, started a sport that would change his life (which would take fear and replace it with a dream), was secretly called by many these days, a late blooming! "

Part Two
A trip to Minnesota

(January 1998 to October 2009)

For several years Rosa Peñaloza (his middle name would be added that in 2000, making it the Rosa Peñaloza Siluk) had worked in Lima, Peru, Phone-to-fifteen yearsIn particular, an accountant and has been with all his free time, he was a devout Catholic, working for his church, free. He never married, taking care of five families ((sometimes the father and mother together with her sisters and brother-in-law and their children, plus a girl with two children, all living in her house, which live under his roof for several years when he was in constant service) (from a family of eight children)).

Her mother said she was approaching middle ageand unmarried, something to consider. The local priest who wanted a sister, think of something else. Apart from its activities and now the church, he made time for her and grandchildren (who were under the potential discomfort, and would be under more of a discomfort that had taken them under his wing)-had their day and a constant vibrant youth to one and all.

It is the little tag-like beat the end of his personal history, which seems to look back, hisJust release as I write this, leading up to the present, which will be the championship.

His thoughts, conversations, things can only remember, or had imagined, have never been fully told by her (as her husband), so I used clips to catch or her life to this day, fragments thrown in the air as if by the wind and then abruptly dropped somewhere, sometime.

Laughed heartily at her small successes in those years. Hadmarried in 2000, she met her husband in 1999 (it talked of taking a trip to America, Disneyland, her mother, so he could enjoy life before it was in his grave and given an English education, a birthday gift from his brother David, for whatever reason, never knew I had met (the husband to be) at the airport in Atlanta, and that in itself is a different story), during a trip to Peru. For this reason he left Peru to live with her future husband inMinnesota (before arriving in Guatemala to see the ancient ruins of Tikal called a week) and when they were married two weeks later, there was an element of sadness for his family, but also excitement for her. At the request of some of his friends: "How can such a chance and marry a foreign species?" she replied, "Because God gave me a bad person?" And that's it.

He walked the plane and walked on the cold ground in Minnesota in February of 2000, the futurelittle shaky, life was still talking to her fully, certainly in his mind, and for three of the six years he lived in Minnesota, he awkwardly tipping them.

In any case, half of his life had just begun. He would travel around the world eleven times, she gets her license, a license for a gun (one shot expert) to contribute. He leaned back toward the unknown, the husband brings business tenant of the apartment, helping with taxes, and did maintenance on the sixbuildings they own together and sent money to Lima to keep their home there and had a crew of five men to a woman who rebelled against his will to include a female boss. "Stop," the husband said: "I will speak with the workers (to his daughter and son-in-law contain)," and he approached them all, "he said sternly:" If you can not work for me wife, you can not work for me! "Well, that settled the question of equal rights.

Now hang on, and you now see whathappened.

The third part
Belly of the Camel

From time to time, the husband began to learn his wife was terrified Rose water (not bottled water, but swimming in particular, the ocean, lakes, rivers, ponds, wherever a person could drown.) Then 's had in Rio de Janeiro, the world's most famous beach, Copa Cabana, and he was in, what could be considered, perhaps in shallow water up to his wife elbows, she panicked and started screaming and tried out pullingwater, like a big wave was coming, do not see, but she saw. When the wave struck, the first husband, grabbed her right arm in a loop around his waist, his feet dug into the sand in karate-like stand firm and resist the attacks of the Gulf, had not picked her, and all his 110 pounds would go to sea.

He tried to laugh about the situation but could not very well, was a serious thing for her.

(Now I'mjoined my wife, maybe I'm not comfortable doing a portrait of her. Maybe I'm exaggerating, or that the notes of his life, but as I see it, and I saw, I was able to temper, or characterize it in his account, as I write this in secret and without his advice, as I often when I do my writing, so that all prejudices. For one thing, she can give her credit more cleaver than me, and I seem to be making it easier.

On many nights, Ispent with her, it was quiet, and perhaps a bit 'boring if I was a bit' boring, that she would soon fall asleep, and all the films we saw, say, 1000-l 'year we got married nine years, also 850 of them fell asleep, and I want to read and write, and for many hours that I did this, that's why she would walk awkwardly (if not sleeping, or knitting), and only by, to do something for break up the boredom (I, for twelve years her senior), he finally found the other thingsto do, sometimes, take a taxi to go shopping, etc.

My life has been very active, very active for me has always been her husband (my heart attack and stroke, in 1993-94, and the acquisition of my neurological disease MS, in 1996 ...) and a spell, the less active, and then as I improved, it became active again, but never as active as it was, if that makes sense, especially when in my youth, now in the years after Rosa was active only ... but nothing in the long termour life was boring, or inactive for a long time otherwise. I had discovered, perhaps he did not know, something they did a harness, a yoke around: he was locked in a bottle, and once opened, was in a large room, figuratively speaking, and it would be a desperate affair so far his arrest, it was really the summer of his life, the life dripping on the back, there was nothing he could do after his head! And what she did, she did well, andcomplete.)

We talked about swimming, we were not, and his fear, and the water in general? I thought about giving up the fight to tackle the fear of swimming that he would walk aimlessly through the land mass of the earth, and jump over the holes as aquatic life is gone. But apparently I was wrong, his spirit must seek to conquer the water to drown in all its forms. They swim in a pool, while a four-star hotel in Copan, Honduras, he was not looking, when shesaw a frog in water of all things, even strange that I have a point, I have criticized in the past and I rarely made fun of her, in any form, because there's nothing to criticize, and I for some party apologizes for the way I think. Perhaps in this one aspect of life, it was just stumbling in the dark seeds.

During the summer of 2004 he started swimming lessons from an Olympic champion, in St. Paul, Minnesota, $ 100 dollars an hour. And 'demonstrateddisastrous. Oh, she's learned a thing or two in those six months (the fear factor was slightly out of focus), and two thousand dollars later, but could not go in water deeper than his knees, or move in water or a swim or not much nothing, but take a bath (which itself was a small performance and God-given)-light swim, as long as she could see the bottom of the pool to the naked eye. diving was forbidden. If nothing else, it broke the straw on the firstcamels back, but the camel is not covered. The death of the camel, symbolically speaking, it would be several years.

After that, and in the autumn of 2006, she and her husband came to Peru, with a house in Lima and one in the Andes, Huancayo in the city. It 'been difficult trying to adjust to his new environment, he loved the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and lost her disastrous swim lessons.

Until it was done to break the camel's knees,looked at her husband who was swimming in the equation the future if something important, but the problem was coming, but had saved a bit 'of money and they looked in a different location in Lima and swimming lessons (one last attempt by the her husband, who suggested they take an inch at a time, instead of one foot at a time, which I suppose is expected, so he wiped out all the expectations of her and told her to go and enjoy only), and the owner of the pool localhappened to an Olympic swimming champion. Why was lead to two Olympic champions, and now, has taken a new company, she would break the vessel, and would fall to his knees to his belly.

Part Four
The late-flowering

Over the next eight months, swimming became a sport very warm and comfortable and beautiful for Rosa. He would go swimming, although it was cold and rainy outside. It seemed at that moment, as if death had cameldrew her close with her again for fear of water. Perhaps both water and felt Rosa, Rosa perhaps using more aware of it that I liked at that time. And the time would come even to the point, you swim in the evening.

In Huancayo, raided two offices, swimming pools and one in the morning and evening (sometimes twice a day, sometimes, another day), and had conquered most of her fears: she could now board, Nicewell, and October 1, 2009, she does the flip turns under the water, very good, and swim 29 laps, laps Olympic swimming has had a lot of resistance. They could do like swimming techniques such as front crawl, back stroke, breaststroke and a bit 'of the butterfly, and then came the camel's broken back and all because there was a fear of deep water (but not prevented, it is was swimming underwater, swimming terrible), and his professors (or instructors),Together with his coach for the next contest, Edson Azana, both bathrooms said: "You go into the next regional championship in November," a distance of one month, it was time for fifty years, competing hard with young bone with agility and reflexes to match.

It 'was a miracle to me how this woman could continue to look forward, defeat all buried along the road to all intents and purposes, even if her anxiety was at its peak, with his voice, he never cried once defeated, saiditself, and he said: "I just can not, I can not stop ..." even when the devil was in the corner saying, "You can not do," he shouted again, apparently calm, "Watch and see!"

And now for the last part of this story, "The Championship" (continued) ...

Note .- I want to thank on behalf of my wife for instructors (and swimming) in the U.S., Beth Peterson, Olympic champion, the YWCA, in Lima, Peru: Cabana Willy by Luis Miguel and Juana Alarcos, Atilioand Reynaldo Ernesto Domenack (Olympic Champion) in Huancayo, Peru: Omar Chavez of the water park and pools Johnny Roca and Juan Bosco coach Edson Azana the water park for the education of my wife before the game.

10-14-2009/No written: 492

Spanish version

(Versión en Español)

A UN Sueño y Temor
A Historia de Inspiracion y determinación

A basado en HistoriaHechos Reales, using Verdadera el nombre de la person ...

Part One
La Oficina de Correos

(Invierno 2002)

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Part Dos
A Viaje aMinnesota

(Jan de Octubre 1998 a 2009)

Buenos por muchos años, Rosa Peñaloza (sensibly nombre cambiado en el año 2000, a Rosa Peñaloza the Siluk) habia trabajado en la Compañía de Telefonos and Lima, Peru, quince años, para ser más exactos she was a y-A Contadora Devote Católica que todo Su Tiempo Libre and trabajaba free on Iglesia para. Nunca habia if Casado,Cinco familias haciendose load cases ((ESE Madre en su tiempo, junto father up with sus Hermanas, y cuñadas cuñados, SOBRINOS, empleado dos Hijos A más, todos bajo el mismo techo Viviendo en su casa por muchos años, ya que she He was UN trabajo que tenia permanent) (y ocho de una familia Venia the Hijos)).

On habia dicho que mother if she estaba a aproximando A Soltera y edad, que algo Madura and think. ElPriest Iglesia de la Fuera Ella queria que algo más que Monja-and think. Fuera de su trabajo, and Iglesia, Hacia tiempo para ocuparse de Sus sobrinas SOBRINOS Ella y tiempos de Haciendo Sus-A has a fall animada para todos y infancia.

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She bajo y en el Camino del Avion Suelo Frío Minnesota and Febrero 2000, the United Nations Poquito temblor yendo adelante, thevida no se habia para she manifestado Totally, y de los tres años que requirement and she Vivir and Minnesota, Serian difíciles para Ella.

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Ahora espera, y Veras lo que paso.

Part Tres
Barriga of Camello

El tiempo esposo empezó up with one, esposa Rosa Tenia que aprender agua on terror (not to agua and Botella, until Nadar en particular, the ocean, a looseLagos, Rios, Piscinas, cualquier lugar en el que podra ahogarse person A).

Habla acercarmelo Estuvimos the Nadar-¿cierto? Y el Temor an ESTO, and general y agua al. Pense que habia if she rendido Vencer Temor en la Lucha y para el que a Nadar she will run a Traves de la Dirección sin tierra, y sobre aquellos que Saltara Charcos agua de la vida Mientras continuaba. Mind, however, estaba equivocado clear up estaba Mindlucha por todas sus formas and conquer agua al. Trato She and Una Nadar pool Cuatro estrellas de un hotel, and Copan, Honduras, but she cuando violence a Fracaso en el agua de Rana A todas las cosas, esto me included harassing the point muchísimo que la Critique, the y nunca habia hecho antes, porque no hay nada que criticize, y en algún moment with me disculpe ESTO por Ella. And Talvez esta área estaba de la vida, Simplemente EllaTropez and half de la oscuridad.

During el verano 2004, Ella empezó a tomar clases A campeon natacion with Olympia, and San Pablo, Minnesota, Costab Cien dólares la hora. ESTO result desastre. ¡Ah! She opened algunas cosas ESOS requirement and months (el habia Temor itself a factor disipado ligera y mis dos dólares), but she no podiums enter más arriba en el agua que estuviera de Sus rodillas, Darse niclavados ni Vueltas, only Nadar, Nadar ligero, siempre y cuando el pudiera Ella far bottom of the pool in simple view. Nadar bajo el agua time impossible. habia algo Yes, it was Ella que habia roto la primera de la Paja Camello of Giba, but el Camello todavía no se habia Caido. La Muerte Habla figuratively-of-Camello tomar lugar algunos años más.

Lueg the Ello, en el otoño 2006, Ella y esposo on vinierona, A teniendo Perú y otra home and Lima and Los Andes, en la ciudad de Huancayo. Ella estaba nuevo acostumbrarse entry Duro on one of the Environment, the Ella Gustad habia mucho la ciudad de San Pablo, Minnesota, y sus clases extrañaba desastrosas the natacion.

Hasta cuando el mismo Moment ocurrió esto rodillas doble to a camel-a-time on the parécio esposo que estaba natacion Fuera de ecuación the future, and a lo que respectaba ALGOsignificant, but el theme Seguia surge, sin embargo, Ella habia dinero y algo ahorrado the UN busco lugar para Nadar Tomar clases y Lima (un Intento de su último Esposito, sugirió Quien lo que por pulgada Tomara pulgada, and the pie por vez cake, supongo que el habia the previously Hecho, el, ASI, todas las expectativas she Borro, y dijo que le y Fuera Simplemente disfrutara). Y que el de la Duen sucedióUN and Olympic pool was Campeon natacion. Por consiguiente, Ella habia Sido dirigida por dos olímpicos Campeones, y en el Futuro, Una nueva tomar responsabilidad Ella, Ella ahora break the camel's Giba, y en este on caer sobre sus rodillas Estômago not only.

Part Cuatro
A florecer Tardio

En los siguientes ocho months, if the natacion convirtió Calido A EN,Comfortable, bonito y Deporte para Rosa. Iria Nadar including one or SI Ella estaba Lloviendo Hacia Frío. En Tiempo ESE parecer, como la muerte SI acercado Camello of La Habra más look up with, A vez, at agua Temor. Talvez ambos, el agua y lo sentían Rosa, Rosa was the Talvez esto más a conscious ESTO complacía me. Y con el tiempo que included llegaría Al Punto de Iria, and she read a NadarTardes.

En Huancayo, Ella Piscinas busco dos, Un dia en la que Nadar IBA and read a mananase A y al día siguiente las tardes and la otra, y todos sus habia Cases temores conquistado-ella hacer ahora podiums clavados muy bien, y para el Primero Octubre de 2009, she podiums dock La Vuelta Olímpica bajo el agua, olímpicas Piscinas Nadar and 1929 Vueltas, Ella Tenia Resistencia a mounted ones. She podiums Nadar, estilolibre, Espalda, pecho y la Mariposa little United Nations, Lueger y, de nuevo El Camello is, with the Rota Espalda y todo porque todavía permanecía Temor el agua profunda to (but not the ESTO detuvo a she, she estaba bajo el agua nadando ) y sus pro instructores or concerns and Piscinas Ambas, junto up with para la Competencia entre Nador cercanía, Edson Azana, Le dijeron: "You vas a estar en la Competencia Proxima natacion and Regional noviembre, a UN MES, she AhoraTenia años cincuenta the edad, an IBA and compete with people Jóvenes más,

UN was far asombro Para Mi Cómo esta mujer continuaba Adelante, Enterra derrotas to the wide and todas las formas del Camino, including cuando estaba en su Temor on Maximo, Ella nunca derrota Grito, Ella dijo if one is Misma, y me dijo " dejarlo No puedo, no puedo rendirme ... " Cuando estaba including El Diablo and La Esquina diciendole: "Tu No Puedeshacerlo "She gritaba the Respond silencioso clear mind," Observa y Veras ".

(Continuará. ..)

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