I was born in Mexico in Jalisco State in a little town called Jalos Totitlan. I lived most of the time on my grandfather's ranch. I started going to school when I was 6 years old. I didn't go to kindergarten.
School there is really hard.
When I was in second grade, I had a really strict teacher, and he expected all of us to do our homework. So I went to school without my homework and when he asked us to put our homework on his desk, I was already crying because I knew I was in trouble. He made me and another girl stand in front of all the class and made us put our hands out and started hitting us with a ruler. It hurt so much, not only physically. After that, I always managed to do my homework, and if I didn't know how, I used to cry because I was so scared to go to school the next day.