00:12Hello, I am Daniel Nieves. I have 26 years old. I live here in Bogotá, on the Caracas.
00:25I was born in Venezuela, in the city of Porto Pirito, for 26 years. Everything started in my country, in
00:37Venezuela, in my city, for two years.
00:43I am the oldest of seven brothers. My parents died. My mother died for four years. My father died for
00:5225 years.
00:54So I took a decision, which was to leave the country. My family at the beginning didn't want to.
01:03Obviously, I was very close to them, but they said, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
01:09come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
01:20You know what I mean? And I remember that scene clear. I was doing the bag.
01:28And more than clothes, what I put in that bag was in my bag.
01:34It was a bag full of memories of friends, family memories, family memories, family memories.
01:44And I felt like I was putting all that in there and leaving all that.
01:52My first job was discriminated. Some people told me that...
01:59I remember that once I started working, my first job was in a bartender store.
02:05And the man, the boss, the boss, asked me to look for the cold.
02:12He didn't know what is the cold because my country is Cloro.
02:14They call it Cloro.
02:15And he said, well, of course, if they are in your country, they don't know that.
02:20And I said, I have a very strong character and I fight with everyone.
02:26But I had to call myself.
02:28I had to call myself.
02:31I had to call myself everything I felt.
02:33I had to call myself all the things I saw with me.
02:36In that job, I said, well, no, I need money.
02:42I need to call myself. I need to call my family. I need something.
02:46And, well, I have to call myself.
02:49At the beginning, the receiving day was not very, very good.
02:53It took me to adapt.
02:55People looked at me and said, well, another Venezuelan is coming.
02:57this is becoming full of Venezuelans, and I understood, I understood and I said, well, it is understandable.
03:07And when I went to know more, I went to know the culture, I went to know how they thought,
03:13how they acted, what they said,
03:15the culture in general, I understood that Colombia is like the sister of Venezuela,
03:21like that girl that grabs you when your mom is not there, and that is for me Colombia,
03:31because at the end we are all a family, at the end we are not Venezuelans, Colombians, Peruanes,
03:38we are only human, that is what we are, the borders, that is only presentation,
03:50what is important is here, what is important is that, and well, thank you,
03:57I can only thank you for everything that Colombia has given me, because even if I didn't expect that it
04:04was like that,
04:06people who I didn't know, people who I never came to see in my life,
04:09it took me to eat, it took me to eat, it took me to eat.
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