COLOMBIA THROUGH TIME (week 12-13)

Sebastian`s life was wonderful, he had all things he wanted, but not all things he wanted. He was born in the sixteenth of August 1536, and so his parents considered him “a gift from God to celebrate victory” but he didn`t consider himself as such thing. It was August sixteenth 1544, and Sebastian was bored in his huge room, with all kinds of luxuries in his big mansion at Barcelona, thinking of the only wish he had made since he was 3: that he could go out of his fantasy world of rich and explore how the world was. But suddenly a familiar voice woke him up saying: “Sebastian we`re leaving the country”. When the young boy heard the news, he thought his dream was finally becoming true, and he got so excited that he packed his bags in almost a second. He was going to Colombia as a birthday gift from his parents, because they were aware of Sebastian`s dream, and it was the family’s first time.

When he arrived to the colony, he saw it a little different than Spain. There were people with rare clothes, making sounds with some things that he couldn`t even dream of. He was not scared, but, as many other kids, he was interested, and he asked his mother who they were, but he was amazingly surprised when she said they were nothing he should worry about, because his mother had never answered him that way before, and the mystery interested him even more. At the big house were him and his family were staying, he heard his parents talk: “Sebastian is a very special boy, but he is interested in foolish things, when we know he could become minister”…

At the next morning, after what he learned after his short presence in Colombia, he looked into some books, but they talked about how Colombia became a great place since the colonialism, but he wanted to see something different. Some minutes later, he saw how everything changed, and he felt like he was in a movie, and it skipped ahead many years. When finally everything was calm, he found himself in a plane space, with plenty of Sun, but what was happening wasn`t as good as the day. It was a battle, and he saw as the two bands killed each other, but there was one side which seemed more powerful than the other one. One had armors, and was very strong, and Sebastian immediately recognized it as the people he saw very often at home. The other side was likely to the people he saw when he first arrived to Colombia, and he saw them suffering in big amounts. The scene was the worst thing he had ever seen, with plenty of blood and deaths, so he realized that back home he was living in a fairy tale. It was all skipped ahead again, and he found himself in a better place: it was a marked, but Sebastian felt very confused, and he was in shock so he passed out. At the next day, he was in the ground of the same place that he was before he passed out. It was the same market in an afternoon, and he saw people with a different culture then he was used to, there was plenty of noise, and people selling and buying things, when he saw a newspaper saying: “Bolivar, the Saver of the Independence”. In the newspaper, it was March 5 1811, and he asked a seller: “Where am I? Who is Bolivar? Who are they? Why is it 1811? ...

The man didn`t even look at him, so he asked again, but the man still didn`t pay attention. Sebastian didn’t understand a thing about what was happening, and he knew he had to discover things on his own. Some days later, he was still in the same place, which wasn`t so strange to him after some investigation. He realized he was still in Colombia, but it changed. Now his country didn`t rule Colombia, but it was a different government. When he found out about all this, he also saw that Colombia was a little smaller than he remembered, and he knew many things had changed, he somehow knew that it was a more peaceful way, despite the battle he saw earlier, because in mysterious ways he knew that battle was worth it. Once more, he saw how everything changed, but this time it was a rewind, and he was again at Colombia in December 6th 1544, reading the same book he was reading before the craziness started, and then his mother told him: “Sebastian, honey, are you all right?” He stood still and said: “This will change”.