Conocimos la historia de Elsa López, una mujer de 81 años que acaba de ingresar a la universidad.
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00:00with Clarissa and precisely it is an impressive example especially because of course it is a woman
00:08who says it is never too late or it is better late than never true that is why we want to hear this
00:13story clear and you are in the table hello we travel to the top and how are you to know
00:21the story of Elsa a woman who has a vital energy that anyone of 20 years would like to know
00:28her story let's see in the next note
00:33hello I am Elsa I am 81 years old I come to study I am studying social work in the first
00:43year first year because I like social work because it also helps people
00:50and because my community is a little stagnant and I would like to collaborate with them
00:57that they believe in an adult who has the ability
01:02how the idea of studying arises without education many things that one does
01:08is believed that one is good ignorant as it was and light for some people no
01:19I did not have a world as the youth says how it was to study rich again what was the
01:26most difficult for me to adapt to the language of the young students because many terms of
01:34what they said did not come with me in any part I had a life
01:41as they call mundana I do not know and the first day of classes here at the institute how was the
01:47university life with pain because I did not know what I was facing and his classmates
01:54how did they receive her at the institute so great they always always help me but I don't like
02:06them to affirm me because because I am self-confident Elsa is a very intelligent colleague she
02:20always asks when she has a doubt and I find her to be very brave I want a cappuccino
02:29this is for you and I pay mine no I pay no you no mine no I pay it how is the
02:40study at this moment at this moment I have half the half no more because they had helped me
02:55people who love me and had saved a little bit of the pension
03:01and with that I wanted to finance but today I spent yesterday I spent that is, I am decreasing but
03:12I am still going to make an effort to work a little what is your dream is to be able to serve the
03:20community in having children around me in loving the grandchildren these things make me happy
03:27and study and study study was my dream for many years our misery I do not like to cry
03:38misery I like to force myself that is the idea that I get what I want for my own efforts
03:47I want to meet Elsa, hug her, it happened because of course at 81 years old you can say I want to
04:00stay active I want to continue doing something or working on something or being a hobby true
04:05but she started studying especially with a pandemic it was super difficult for her it is not impossible
04:16for her nothing is impossible for her every day she grabs a micro it takes 40 minutes from
04:21her house to the institute and back and forth and so she has not missed a day true I do not intend to
04:28miss unless I can not walk but having good health I will not miss the appointment and we are
04:36here now in your school which is also a very special place for her because you told us
04:43that they had not received her in any school she had applied but as they already knew they had lost
04:47the papers because you had finished the year 57 basic sixth until there I had arrived but
04:53here they accepted her here in the only part where they gave me the opportunity so I think
04:59that this school deserves much more support from the municipality of the state because they are
05:08the schools like this one that gives the opportunity not only to the child who is the young man who is
05:16bad as they say that gives the opportunity to the older adult and they gave it to me and what
05:25did that opportunity mean for you that opportunity to enrich me a little to learn more
05:30and have opportunities no matter the age you are in five more semesters you are going to be a professional
05:40I intend to complete five semesters but lucid as I am today being lucid I want to continue
05:49the sapri is impressive also look at us they are also accompanying us at this moment the one who
05:56is the head teacher of her is also a colleague of the university that we also saw her in the
06:02note that they also tell us about the tremendous person that she is because she is a great student
06:08but she is also an inspiration for all the people who are lucky enough to live with her
06:12absolutely we are going to talk to them I would not have been for the teachers of this school I would not be
06:19here it is true teacher javier the director and there are teachers who are not today and without
06:26supporting me a lot but the prism wants to say hello now a giant hug I want you to listen to the
06:36teacher and we listen to the teacher is that I want to know how it was elza as a student
06:43elza and not for nothing it was the one who was the first here and the last one to go we had to
06:51suddenly send her to the house when she arrived with a license and I was not going to be here for a license so
06:56we sent her to the house worried about her studies and she came the same for her we would not be missing
07:01any day as we said the most mattea if that is here we are all special everything and everything is special
07:09but very but very mattea anyway if he leaves us with our mouths open is a tremendous example
07:16very well I think it is the secret of staying for many years the activity
07:27ballet
07:35I thought I knew something about his artistic talent, he knows me a lot but he does not know
07:42everything, for example, they thought about dedicating themselves to something else or studying something different or it was always
07:50just acting, my curriculum is quite strange, so to speak, because I left the
07:56national institute where I studied with my fellow geriatrician, I left school there
08:03in 1959 and I immediately went to study chemistry and pharmacy, I left chemistry and pharmacy
08:11around the year 64 66 I returned from chemistry and pharmacy and I was already acting and I was already in
08:19the theaters in the year 64-65 and in 66 I had to decide or I was a pharmaceutical chemist or I was an
08:27actor, yes, well, and there I definitely made a tremendous career, I imagine that you have
08:34something to tell Elsa because she left us all with our mouths open, the truth is that these
08:42examples are not always true, Teresa is true today, Elsa, I personally admire you, I admire you
08:49because I find that you are a person who is an example for the people of our age that you want to
08:56start that you want to fulfill your dream and that you dare and that you make an effort you are not wonderful
09:04you are an example I really admire you the truth dear Elsa I would like to tell you that I also
09:14admire you a lot because staying active is the secret of the years of staying well for many
09:22years so I congratulate you for what you are doing and keep going it shows that you can do
09:28what you can think of so the future is yours and also with so much vocation because she wants to
09:34dedicate herself to public service, right Clarissa? Elsa listens to us and is attentive to everything we tell her, right?
09:48Well, the opportunity was given to me by this school to be able to encourage
09:54the youth, the people, as close to my age that you can always do, you have to force yourself, it is only
10:02will and wanting to know. Priscila also asked you to study social work because you
10:10want to help other people. I want to help my community if they accept me and I want to
10:17help myself and I want to do more, I always want more. In addition, you are an avid reader, she was
10:27commenting to me, she has a very rich language when she speaks because she tells us that she devours the novels,
10:32she loves Isabel Allende. I don't know what to say because I don't listen well, this cell phone doesn't
10:41help me much. And besides, that is another challenge too, to try to learn with technology.
10:53Of course, with technology and also that she, at 81 years old, like many people, has hearing problems
10:59, so we could suddenly add that to the activation because she has tried to get
11:05a good hearing aid, in fact it comes from there and it still does not work for her, so imagine being in
11:10a room with all the noise that the rooms can have suddenly and being trying to concentrate and
11:15the teacher told us that this happened to her here, sometimes at school and for her it was also
11:19very frustrating because the kids were suddenly playing around like in the classroom, tell us a
11:24little. Of course, right there, a little bit, she got a little stressed out with so much noise, so much noise, so in that
11:30sense the room had to be normalized a lot. I imagine that they helped there and
11:37they put themselves in Elsa's place and there was solidarity. First of all, it marked education, it marked wanting to support her and it is very diverse,
11:45so in that sense, each one of those who are inside the room is accepted
11:51and that also enriches a lot. And you felt welcome too, inside everything here. Very generous, I imagine it must have been, as it is now too.
11:58It is not that the students, because they did not understand much, they were forced to study and I came of my own free will, that is the difference, to want, I, not that they forced me to come.
12:11The teachers and the director laugh here, they know it was like that, Pri.
12:14Yes, well, yes, hey, and you also said something very important, that she devours the novels, because when we talk about aging actively, it is not only about going out to run, to exercise, but also, as you say,
12:27well, Dr. Molina, you have to keep your mind active too.
12:30The active mind, Pri, yes, and as you showed here in the chart, we are an aging country, so Chileans, let's all learn to age actively and healthily and in a positive way.
12:41And this program, we have two icons here and we have Elsa there, who is exercising a right of the elderly, the right to education throughout the life cycle.
12:52What does this mean? Give her the opportunity, and she earned the opportunity, to congratulate the school that opened its doors, broke down paradigms.
13:00And deep down, she is showing that years have nothing to do with damage.
13:06And as we give people the opportunity, people slap us, knocking down prejudices.
13:11And that is the work of our program, to activate us and make aging visible, so that aging in Chile is a pride.
13:19Doctor, so that...