I'M NOT SCARED

Sorry. Another one. Today. Maybe I wanna write something apart from cars and clutches.
It happened a month ago. My boss said I can't work in a project because "You can't speak English", he told me. Wow. It hurted me. But I agreeded. It wasn't worth the effort to tell him about all these years in my life. I realized one thing: he didn't know me, and still doesn't.
I was five years old when I began to study English. At school, the only goal was to prepare us for First Certificate. Two days a week we had English class. I remember the exercises, the exams, the phrasal verbs, the conversation, the translations, spellings, videos, audios, stupid songs like "Pollito chicken, gallina hen, lápiz pencil y pluma pen". I studied every day and I began to feel happy when I could understand songs by the Beatles. Not only understand, but sing them.

When I left school I left English and I began to learn French. French was cool and easier than English and I went to Alliance Française for three years. I began to work in 1996, and two years later, I was a journalist for a national newspaper. Every day, my colleagues ask me for help: there was some information in English and they want me for translate it and write the article.
Captain America has helped me to refresh my English. But it was too late. I knew the grammar, the vocabulary; I could read almost everything in English, but I was scared. I lost my self-confidence. I had to speak in English when I was in London but I felt unhappy. It wasn't the same.
Something changed in San Francisco. I could understand everyone, I could speak. Even in Nevada, when a woman asked me for my identity card because she thought I wasn't 21 (hallellujah!)
But now I'm not scared. I can do that. I can speak English. The Woman Who Feels Invisible has helped me again, at the office. We had to speak to Germany and I didn't want to. My boss said that I couldn't, didn't he? So my friend The Woman called to Germany.
I have to try it. I'm not scared.

"All my troubles seemed so far away"