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Rodrigo José Álvarez Montero Méndez

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Who am I?

1.- Reading, on paper or digitally?

Digitally.

 

2.- Besides or instead your current career, which one would you had pursued ?

Marine biologist / chef

 

3.- Which high school did you attend?

Colegio Preparatorio de Xalapa, Diurno. ("la Juárez")

 

4.- Favorite quotes

1.- What we need as mankind, is invest not on Science and Technology but on Empathy. (personal quote)

 

2.- In a developed country poors do not have cars but rich ones take public transportation. 

 

3.- If you want to know how civilized a man is, observe the way he treats his most significant one. In the same manner, the best barometer for the extent of civilization of a country, is to observe the life's condition of its women.  Norberto Bobbio.

 

4.- At the end, life is wiser than our  attachments.

 

5. Tribulation does not exist outside our mind, The true nature of our problems is the ilusion of discomfort that exists in it.

 

 

5.- Favorite books

Los pésimos ejemplos de Dios, según la Biblia – Pepe Rodríguez

 

Awareness – Anthony de Mello S.J.

 

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

 

The four agreements – Miguel Ruiz

 

The language of letting go - Melody Beattie

 

6.- Favorite poems

Cuando sepas hallar una sonrisa – Enrique González Martínez

 

Redondillas – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

 

En paz – Amado Nervo

 

La suave patria – Ramón López Velarde

 

Asonancias – Salvador Díaz Mirón

 

Funeral Blues - Wystan Hugh Auden

 

Profecía - Rafael de León

 

Cobardía - Amado Nervo

 

Poema XV - Pablo Neruda

 

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes, esta noche - Pablo Neruda

 

Espero cuarme de ti - Jaime Sabines

 

Si tú me olvidas - Pablo Neruda

 

Ausencia - Jorge Luis Borges

 

Para recobrar - Francisco Luis Bernárdez

 

Desamor - Benjamín Garcimarrero

 

Plegaria de los huérfanos - Fernando del Paso

 

7.-Favorite cake flavors

Macadamia

Pecan 

Chocolate

 

8.- Favorite songs

These four walls – Miley Cyrus

Calma antes de la tormenta – Soraya

Cuatro vidas – Eydie Gormé

Our song – Taylor Swift

No digas nada - RBD

 

9.- Favorite movies

Matchpoint

Office Space

Four weeddings and a funeral

Inception

City of angels

 

10.- Hobbies

To learn!

 

 

To go to cinema

To play videogames

To sleep

Founding teacher

(2011 )

 

Academic co-coordinator

(February 2012 - January 2015 )

 

Site author and Webmaster

(February 2012 - ... )

 

Institutional Facebook® account administrator

(Agosto 2013 - January 2014)

 

Freshman "Welcome Day” coordinator

(February 2012 - July 2014)

 

Head of Department of “Moral/ethical values, critical thinking and study techniques"

(February 2012 - July 2014 )

 

Head of Department of “Science"

(February 2012 - July 2014)

 

School counsellor

(February 2014 - August 2014)

 

Teachers' continuing professional development officer 

(August 2014 - Enero 2015)

 

Reading promotion program

(August 2014 - ...)

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The above picture belongs to the teacher's personal archive and is used here for illustration purpose only. The picture illustrates the space in which research activities are performed by the teacher in the 'Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute' but its inclusion does not try to imply any association between that Center and this school.