Period 2
English 11A
My Grandfather’s Remarkable Life
My
Grandfather’s Remarkable Life
Along with numerous nomadic tribes people,
two main indigenous groups existed in Argentina before the European arrival. In
the northwest, near Bolivia and the Andes, was a people known as the Diaguita,
while further south and to the east were the Guarani. Together the Diaguita and
the Guarani constitute the origins of permanent agricultural civilization in
Argentina, both developing the cultivation of maize. The Diaguita are also
remembered for having successfully prevented the powerful Inca from expanding
their empire into Argentina from what is now Bolivia. Why do I talk about
Argentine history you may ask? Well it’s simple, my Grandfather is one of those
little boys that were forced to immigrate into a different country because of
what their Leaders were known for, “The Nazis.” Yes my grandfather is German.
He immigrated to Argentina when he was just 10 years old in the year of 1942. My
Grandfather has told me that he wasn’t aware of why he was moving into a
different country with a different language, if everything seemed to be okay
with his dad’s job (who happened to have a partnership with the Jews). But of
course he was just 10-years of age, what could a 10 year old possibly to in
such a critical time as that? He decided to just keep quiet and go along with
his father’s decision of moving into the country of Argentina.
My
grandfather’s dad put him in this really prestigious school there in Argentina
that promised to show my grandpa the perfect Argentine Spanish language and
help him discover any talents he might have deep inside of him. That’s when
things started to get really good according to my grandfather. He had already
10 years living in Argentina, Buenos Aires, he was 2O years old and was very
already very fluent with the Spanish Language. He always
been very bright and quick to learn, and from the privilege I’ve had to have
conversations with him, I promise you he has the perfect brain intelligence to
join the NASA, NO Kidding. Okay back to the topic, during his stay there in
Argentina, he noticed that every time he heard happy music play, he found
himself dancing along to what the beat made him feel. He says that Argentina is
a Beautiful place in which music is Literally always playing music in most the
places you visit. So of course you could imagine him always so very Jolly when
it came down to hearing music play. He got to the point in which he’d dance in
front of unknown public && simply danced his heart out, it was as if it
was a new language all Over again && he wanted to explore the wonders
of it. He didn’t know much about the art of dancing, but from all that passion
people saw in him every day for music, one day he decided to find a
professional school in which he’d be taught absolutely everything there was to
know about dancing.
He
found the school he was longing to be in. Although he wasn’t yet well known in
much places, he was way more than Happy to be on the Pursuit of His very own
Happiness. After a few years, he was well known as a professional dancer there
in Argentina. He was a four time straight Champion in the beautiful dancing
industry, until one day his life took an interesting turn. He says it was a
Beautiful sunny day with a couple of clouds, blue sky, and a fresh breeze he
was able to feel through his shoulders. He was practicing his new choreography
before the class he was teaching started, when out of the blue a Beautifully
elegant lady asks him if he taught dancing, she apparently wanted to learn how to
dance as a surprise for her upcoming wedding with a general from the country. My
grandfather was just so stunned by her beauty and delicacy, that he was simply
speechless when she was finished talking. He says both him and he were aware
that she was engaged to be married, but deep inside they both new that the
instant their eyes met, something in the air just clicked. My grandfather
describes it as something supernatural that no human but God has access to
define, he says it just felt right. That lady’s name was Dina and as soon as
she realized she felt something different for a man who she’d barely met and
wasn’t her fiancé, she immediately changed her gorgeous Orchid smile in to a
strict women’s straight face. My grandfather decided to accept her as a student
there in his school without a cost, he was delighted/honored to be a teacher to
one of the most Beautiful women he’d ever seen there in Argentina, “Bellissima”
according to one of my grandfather’s favorite phrases. My grandfather says Dina
was pretty tough to work with because she didn’t want to admit something she
was beginning to feel towards my grandfather. Dina was taught well by her
parents to be true to her commitments; but to her it was just inevitable to
stop feeling happy, full of life, and free when she was around my Grandfather.
Dina had practiced with my grandfather Federico for weeks and the what they
feared the most, happened, they had “accidently” fallen in Love.
Dina was just 3 days
away from her prestigious wedding of the year, 3 days! And she was just
depressed because she had no idea what she was going to decide; she knew she
had a Huge commitment she couldn’t just break, but she also knew she had a
heart that was BEGGING her to pay attention to it. She was in such big pain for
what she had to decide, but she thought it was the best decision. My
grandfather loved Dina so much, that with a slight sound of his heart breaking,
to make it easier for her, he suggested that she went on and fulfilled her
commitment with her soon to be husband. She was probably waiting for my
grandfather to ask her to not do it, to stay, that there was another way to
make things right and still be happy! But the reality was another, that she was
already engaged and had to do what she had to do. My grandfather says she was
so much in pain, that on her way home, she couldn’t think straight, she wasn’t
watching both sides of the rode and as inevitable as it was, she was hit by a
car and immediately taken to the hospital. Both my grandfather and her fiancé
were notified of this horrible incident.
That night was one of
the most devastating nights any one could ever have, Dina was in Intensive Care
for 3 days and entered a stage of comma. My grandfather never told Dina’s
fiancé that he was in Love with her, he simply said with a Devastating pain in
his heart that he was part of a surprise she was making for him and that he
grew a huge brother to sister affection for her and that, that was the reason
why he was suffering to her that way. Her supposed fiancé who claimed to be
strongly in Love with her couldn’t stand being in that hospital after a month
and just cowardly called it quits with Dina and ran away. My grandfather knew
about this and tells me that every time he’d see her every single day and
sometimes even fall asleep in the same room as her, then he’d go in the chapel
the hospital had, and cried his heart out to God, blaming himself for what Dina
was going through once and over again. He then noticed that all that was doing
was making matters worse. 3 weeks after he decided to go back to the chapel and
act different; and instead of saying vulnerabilities as he always did, he made
a promise to God, that if she woke up miraculously, that he’d give his dreams
up to watch over her, to care for her, to be patient, and to simply Love her
for the rest of his life.
Miraculously Dina woke
up from her comma after 2 months of no responses, and my grandfather couldn’t
wait to see her. He was just really anxious to see her, he bought her flowers
and a special letter he’d made for her every day. And just as he entered the room, Dina’s
ex fiancé was inside there with her, acting like what he did never happened.
Flawlessly and hypocritically telling Dina that he missed her so much and
couldn’t believe she was finally awake. Dina was confused at first because
something deep inside her made her feel some type of rejection towards her
fiancé. She wasn’t sure why but she decided to confess to him that she didn’t
Love him, that she needed time to think. He was obviously unhappy with what she
decided, and only ignorantly insulted her as though he were a 10 year old child
that was angry at the fact that things didn’t go his way. Instead of insulting
him back, she called it completely off with him and had ordered him to leave
and never come back (that was the last time she saw him). My grandfather
presence this happening with lots of joy and happily kicked him out of the
hospital with other security guards. Three days later Dina was able to go home.
My grandfather and Dina dated for a few months more until the day my
grandfather popped the question and was then engaged to Dina. Dina was so
beyond thankful for the second chance God had given her at life, that she
became sign language teacher. Words couldn’t explain how Amazingly happy she
was to marry the True Love of her life, she just was. For her wedding she
decided to dance that special dance she had prepared a while back, made it
better and much more special for her wedding with my grandfather. Marrying my
grandfather Federico Poplowski is what made Dina Lopilato, my Beautiful
Grandmother up to this day.
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