Matias Contreras
Favorite Quote:
“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I walk, I’ll never reach it. So what’s the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
Fernando Birri
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Matias Contreras
Years in Education: 6
department: Spanish
PROFESSIONAL/QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s Degree in Literature, UMSA (2009-2013)
Textbook writer and editor, Santillana Publishing House (2014-2020)
Spanish teacher, German School of La Paz (2015-2020)
Q-OLK training program for German school teachers (2015-2016)
Comprehensive Sexuality Education Diploma, CESI Chile (2021-2022)
FUN FACTS:
I’m an enthusiast of teenage education and a positive person who enjoys guiding them through the complex and exciting phase of adolescence. I am an admirer of their creativity, flexibility and spontaneity, and enjoy nudging them to think for themselves and making smart and well-thought decisions.
I like playing soccer and racquetball, riding my bike, singing and playing guitar, hiking and taking road trips, reading, playing board games and spending time with my family and friends.
I love my beautiful hometown: eating salteñas, fricasé and api con pastel, going to the market and talking to the caseritas, watching The Strongest at the Hernando Siles, buying all sorts of miniatures at the Alasitas, seeing mountains wherever I look.