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"The Villanueva twins"
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There it is, three beers - Just two.
The other don't drink.
That's it.
"The Vicky"
The modernity, look it.
"The Vicky"
Cheers, to the cameraman.
"I am a heart Cherokee...
I am Cherokee in courage and honor"
The Cherokees is a football club.
- Really? - Founded in 1968
See? even the "Don" went to see me play.
And it was a part of my life since...
9 years old and until the 27.
It was almost 18 years of my life there.
First as a player in early categories...
semi pro, adolescent and until the older league.
Then i have a period as a coach...
from the year 1991 until...
2003 as a coach.
That's the quarterback...
the runners on the back.
They try by air.
And the quarterback get'***.
Incomplete pass.
- Come on! you're coming in!
No! let me tell you one thing...
- The coaches aren't happy.
Since the beginning kids are getting hit...
on the shoulders or the head.
In the past it wasn't so harmful as now but...
It's a rude sport...
and cool, a lot adrenaline...
it turns you on and...
it gives the courage to win the game.
There's the pass.
And it's completed.
I still be a fan...
it's a sport that i like and gave me so much...
but make me loose some time too.
Until the end!
Give it all son!
Give it all daddy!
There i met some of my best friends...
and many still there.
Some are now married.
Some other have kids, some other don't.
- You play with it? - Cherokees
Of course. It's my helmet.
- It won't fit you anymore.
In there we was 8... 9 years old.
The first season we play and...
that's the last one.
in there we were 24 or 25 years old.
The beginning...
and the end.
It was like 15 years playing.
In a row, 15 or 20 years.
"El Paja" (The Straw)
Here is "Caco Pacheco".
The very famous Carlos Pacheco.
- Just for that one more round!
But in this picture Paja has hair...
and Caco won't drink yet.
The Tala (A.K.A. Enrique)
And me.
Here we are with all this boys.
So let's try to listen their...
opinions, and hopes...
and see what they think.
Your name?
- Fernando Villanueva.
- What you think about the game?
- It seems... hard
But we are going to win...
we will *** crush them.
Mistico!
Mistico!, Mistico!, Mistico!
- Don't!... he's going to jump!
Here am i with my "Vanilla Ice" haircut.
With a tacky make up.
That's the high school No. 150.
I get expelled for bad behaviour.
Because i always escaped from class with my friends.
We jump outside the wall from the men's room.
And i have to repeat that grade because...
they won't let me finish the year...
and i wasn't accepted in any other school.
After that i came to the high school No 280...
they accepted me and i could finish the school.
Than i try the free college.
A total failure...
It was a... bad choice.
And than i go to Y.U.M.
It's a college that have a free study system but...
with a regular concurrency program,
so you have to enter to all the classes.
I was there for a while.
- So second college you try? - Yes, the second one...
And after that i take a break.
And left the school for about 2 years.
Julio!
With the twins, you never get bored.
Very funny guys.
It can be only the two twins plus one...
and it was like they where 20.
JULIO'S BIRTHDAY PARTY 1991
Let's go out!
They wanna go Roberto!
Tell them to go until 3 a.m.
Hurra! hurra!
The twins!, the twins! RA! RA! RA!
And at that age what you say...
all it's about getting fun, so...
zero chance to be sad.
You're going to be laughing...
about anything, ok.
Always fun and happy...
With a big smile on your face.
"Cactus" is already *** drunk.
- "if don't jump you're Puma!
- "if don't jump you're Puma! - "if don't jump you're Puma!
- yeah of course, please give a loud applause.
- And to your Mom the Superman ***...
with the PIN PIRRIRIN PIN PIN, with the Superman ***...
it can go to *** the university!!
- I've met many of their football friends.
And they were guys with money.
So you could see them hanging around...
here in the neighborhood, with us at the street...
or at Fernando and Tala's home.
But always around them.
Everybody say's Arturo!!
- Go *** yourself!
And if we refer to Fernando?
i can say that...
more than a wise guy he was the "i don't care" kind.
"I can do anything i want...
and i don't care what you can think about it".
PARTY HARD
Here we had long hair... a grunge style.
The Tala and i.
We were rookies...
we had to collect money wearing woman's clothes.
We were a damn mess.
As every one else.
About 20 or 25, hanging out...
after every game.
I start every weekend drinking with Caco.
For example, a thursday not too much.
But every friday...
he call and said:
"What's up, let's go for a couple of beers"
And i never return.
I came back home until the sunday.
Hanging out since friday and until sunday...
we went to some friend's house...
and dawning for breakfast at the street...
than to another friend's house to keep drinking.
At saturday's night Tala and Paja join us.
But they just stay at that night...
but Caco and i will continue until the sunday.
At midnight we look for some other friends...
knocking on their windows...
or arriving playing loud the car's horn...
until they let us in to drink.
Even our girlfriends make what we call "the rescue".
We call them...
asking for some money.
They gave us the money or...
drives us to the store to buy more drinks.
Walking completely drunk sunday afternoon...
asking for more money at the street...
to keep *** drinking...
no, no, no.
At that time...
i talk with my dad and he told me...
"it's enough of a break don't you think?...
and doing nothing"...
Remember that i was 19... 20 years old.
So my dad told me...
"you need to do something...
you're loosing the most valuable thing in life...
the youth, and for nothing.
Or you want to be a longshoreman?
And suddenly he get me a job.
For about...
100 dollars at the month and...
carrying heavy things.
So i came home and told him...
ok, i prefer go back to school.
Life seems hard at that job.
And we make a decision to study marketing.
It was because my dad influenced us.
"the career of the future" he said.
"Marketing has a lot of future in Mexico".
I don't regret for that but...
i practice it for just a while...
i guess only two or three years...
and than i have to quit.
JOB
With "El Monin" (The monkey)...
as a bricklayer.
Than i distribute flyers in the street.
And than with my dad in a publicity business office too.
And after that we went to a couple of agencies...
One that my dad started, and other from an older associate.
Both in the publicity area.
And than after that...
i got a job in GNP insurances...
for about 5 years.
It was because...
you don't really know where are you going to end...
You can graduate and end working as a cab driver...
or be accountant and working as a longshoreman.
And that's because in this country there's no...
the number of jobs that the government promises...
at the moment of your graduation.
In my case was...
to be in all those jobs because...
there wasn't enough money at home...
and the first job you can get is the one you find...
so let's go, to bring money for food.
They start dating out.
But their first girlfriends where like...
very psycho.
"damn, here joined the hunger and the poverty".
both mad and crazy.
A tall girl of the same size of him...
that you think in any moment they will start punch each other.
- Wait! They actually punch each other.
- And than with a totally different little girl...
with glasses like the nerd stereotype...
holy ***!
how this happened?
A change from the grotesque to the sublime.
What's up honey?
- Aren't you going to tell me something?
- Yes honey, i am very happy because we are leaving.
We met at the university...
since 1998, 1999.
Almost all the career...
and we start dating at the end of the last year.
Here it is, it's now recording!
- Don't be *** narcissist.
- We forgot Julio man! ***!
Say hello to Julio wherever he is.
- Your *** too.
- She's crazy.
He told us that his girlfriend...
have a plan because she...
had convinced him to go to canada...
because she had some connections over there.
I been looking for you in four trajineras (boats).
- I am in the worst.
Paulina had some friends at the university...
and they told her around the year 2002 that...
she must go over there...
"you have to go to canada, it's *** awesome...
you need to go to study english".
And one day at one party she told me...
"what you think about this idea?
Some friends from Mexico are living in Canada and it's awesome...
so they are waiting for us.
Ladies!!
To me that opportunity...
it was more than just going to Canada...
it meant relocate and do something more...
like a...
new life.
If we go is to make it big...
not just to study english...
but to make a new kind of life.
How do you feel?
- Fine, a little drunk but cool.
- Yes? - Yes.
- And what you think?
are you gonna make it big or not?
- *** yeah!
Of course!, we are gonna make it...
and it's gonna be awesome...
if not at the first try, than to the other...
and even if we fall again...
- Just promise we are going to *** every day!
- I promise that!
- In that goodbye party at "Las trajineras"...
Carlos Pacheco told me...
"Don't go...
i'm gong to miss you".
But i guess it was something definitive...
and one thing that i really wanted to do...
go to Canada and experiment that.
- Don't go son of a ***, i'm going to miss you so much.
- Turn off your *** light!.
- ***!!!
I fly in 2003, in exactly august 31.
And the next day...
this mexican friends were already waiting for us.
At time i had...
not much info about Canada...
the only thing i knew was that...
you could earn money working at construction.
But didn't knew how hard it was to stay there...
for the working visa...
the chance that immigration gaves you...
six months only...
and than you have to renovate the visa.
So i didn't knew all that.
I just took my bags...
and said "Yes!...
we are gonna make it and stay there"
But it didn't result as i planned.
And that's how it started all.
Those mexicans helped us to found an apartment.
They connected us with a canadian owner.
And we were living one month, almost two...
in that apartment.
Than arrives Enrique with a friend called Luis.
And 20 days later...
came from mexico other four more friends.
So we start to look in the newspapers...
a bigger house to live all together.
Looking for a cheaper rent for each one...
because it's better.
More people are less you pay.
Rents were about 300 to 400 dollars for each one.
My Maple's team jersey.
This ones is angry.
- That's not true, i am very happy.
- The other one?
- I'm happy.
- There it is... the "Don... Ramón"
I remember that my brother get a job in one agency...
15 days after they arrive.
In a bakery.
We cooked donuts and...
bagels, pizza... all kind of bread.
But it was in a very hard journey...
because we start at 23:00 and finish at 7:00 hours.
At the beginning i work with Enrique (Tala)
putting the pan very quick into the oven...
so the tray go inside and start to cook.
And when the first tray came out...
you have to be already pushing the second one...
and than the third.
Than in a vertical stand...
from the bottom to the top, and viceversa.
Eight hours in a row and three breaks per day.
The first of 10 minutes than the lunch of 30...
and another 10 minutes of break before the end.
That was how we work.
Good morning Villanueva family!
As you can see...
it is 5:47 and at - 6º degrees.
And the wind factor?... it's gone.
I'm not a "worker", i am "very worker"
It was a new era for me.
I didn't think if i was study or not.
What i want it at that moment...
it was to learn and be in that country.
Trying to know more things and learning all that i can.
It didn't care if it was it working on a factory or in the construction.
Let's go.
The same of always...
over and over again.
Nice!, is not snowing.
The six of the morning.
Six of the morning.
And everything ok.
Let's go.
As you see...
we are going to work.
They send me to work in the morning...
at the bakery for 8 dollars...
And the same agency offers to me...
a new job for 8.50 dollars...
almost 9 dollars.
And closer of my home.
Here we are walking besides the sun.
Look it.
What a shot!
Even better than the TV 7 shots.
And we keep walking...
to earn our 9 dollars as "working men".
9 dollars the hour.
And i said:
This is a good opportunity!
So i change of job.
And i went to a...
to a metal factory.
Here we work.
At last, count the time we did.
- "Fernando Villaweva"
- "Villaweva"
- "Villaweva" (in spanish sounds like Villa-lazy)
We build lamps and a lot of stuff.
All based on metal.
Everything that we manage was raw material.
We had to bend or cut many pieces...
fold it and pack it.
Or adapt some kind of wire to things.
Many things to manipulate there.
I remember that the machine was working fine.
I have been cutting and folding without problem.
And than i take a break.
So i came back later to work...
and after 10 minutes...
i feel that my hand was...
completely hot.
I did a movement like this...
and my hand was on the other side...
so i picked up the metal pieces...
and suddenly...
i just feel my hand was...
hot, like burning...
what the hell is happen?
When i look...
it seems like...
the blood came from a open faucet...
in my hand.
But the only thing i could feel it was the heat.
Didn't feel pain just like burning.
They took my hand and put me a tourniquet...
and that's the ugly part of the factory because...
i would think that in Canada...
even if you don't have any legal papers...
they may would help you...
or to be less...
*** because...
i remember my supervisor made me a tourniquet with some clothes...
all around my hand to stop the bleeding...
and suddenly someone called 911...
so 15 or 20 minutes later...
they took me to the back door...
and get me out of the factory with Arturo...
and closed the door behind us.
Two minutes later another supervisor...
opens the door and gives us a plastic bag.
A plastic bag with ice and the rest of my fingers on it.
They closed the door again and now that's your problem.
The ambulance appears and get me in...
so they start to inject something on the fingers.
Morphine or something like that for the pain.
So they start to cure my hand and...
stop the bleeding.
And we go to emergency at the hospital.
And never again heard anything from the factory...
They fired me and kick me out.
"You have an accident?... is not our responsibility"
And after all that...
i went back home.
At night and...
every body was sad.
And what happens next?
Nobody knew what's happens next because...
we didn't know how they will react.
If they would pay the bills or...
if i would be healed there...
or if i should return to Mexico.
The rest of my friends...
Arturo and the others...
separate from us because...
the accident it was going to be a big problem.
They need to work and...
maybe someone could denounce us with immigration...
and start a complaint.
So they move to another place and...
only Enrique (Tala), his girlfriend...
Paulina, and i stay in that place.
We are walking down the stair-irris...
- of our homie-rris.
Don't record my hand-ierris.
- I've already recorded.
- Really?
Keep walking.
And start the economic problems because...
i remember that we pay 8 or 9 thousand dollars...
for two days at the hospital.
And that was all the money i had.
Savings, money from them, Paulina...
plus thousand dollars that Paulina's father borrow me...
to accomplish the surgery debt.
They have to cut off my fingers because...
i have the bones out...
and the rest of the finger was crushed...
so it was useless.
They couldn't put him back on...
so the doctor decide it to cut it and...
pulled off the skin to cover all the bone.
And it was the only thing they can do.
They charge me a lot of money because didn't have any ensure.
I enter to the hospital as a tourist.
And that was all.
Tala is drinking a beer.
- One, just for the heat...
here at homie-rris.
(WHISTLE: MEXICAN ANTHEM)
FAMILY
The Villanueva family.
At my grandfather's house.
His brothers...
my granddad,
my father's uncle.
That's in Neza...
the Nezahualcoyotl neighborhood.
All my father's family and my mom.
And here are us.
That's Enrique (Tala) and me.
There my mom is about to fumble (loose the ball).
Yes, that's my dad and mom in the same neighborhood.
That's in the "Doctores" neighborhood.
The "Guerrero", the "Merced", the "Doctores".
Nobody knew that we were two.
Until the moment we birth they knew we was twins.
MOM
One day we were all at home...
and i remember that my Mom went out.
It was raining outside.
I don't know if my mom were out to fix the car...
or why she went out...
yes, we have a VW car.
So she went out...
and than...
she never came back.
I remember it was raining that night...
with many thunders.
So she never came back.
Past one day and another...
so my dad begin the search.
"Where is your mom"
He make phone calls to his brothers, to her family...
And all together start a big search...
until, after 3 or 4 days later...
they find her in the Green Cross Hospital.
She was there without been recognized.
Because she won't have any ID.
She was driving and one car...
well the first thing it was that she can't see...
because the car's cleaners wont work well.
So they said a car came very fast...
and in one turn, at Tlahuac's avenue...
she can't control the wheel.
So she turn and...
crash in a...
wall.
She won't was wearing the seat belt and...
i guess the whole impact was in their head.
So all the nerve cells was killed.
All the awareness was lost...
all the control of the bones, the nerves...
she became paralytic...
loose everything.
I have a few memories but what i remember is that...
Toño's grandma, our neighbor take her every day to rehab...
to the clinic 25... not, 32.
Over there she have the daily service...
of two hour rehab.
The ambulance came here with a wheelchair...
and the neighbor go with her.
That was at the afternoon...
and she was the only person that could escort to my mom.
I think my mother was there about a...
a whole year in that rehab.
They change me to another school.
Dad send us to our grandfather's home.
Made all the arrangements.
But we won't last too long there.
Between six months and a year...
just while my mom was on rehab and all became normal.
And than we came back home...
and change back to school.
Because when we return back home...
my mom couldn't walk yet.
So all that year...
she was on wheelchair.
Than she start to wake up.
Making many rehab exercises...
with the legs.
Trying to woke up the muscles, making stretchings.
You know, the classic rehab...
for those who have the bones atrophied...
for the loss of movement.
So start to move it again.
I don't remember exactly when she start to walk again...
but one day she wake up and...
start to came to the football games with the Cherokees.
TALA (ENRIQUE)
My brother and i.
We were "Pamboleros"
As it's know in the underground soccer world.
We play in the "Pumas" soccer club.
The team was the "Ratones" (Mouses).
We didn't imagine that we would ever play football.
Only soccer.
The thing that bring us to...
play football was...
first:
they give us off from the soccer team...
in the "Pumitas" club.
And second:
after my mother's accident nobody could...
take us to the trainings.
So after the accident my dad try to find...
one activity to distract us from all that we was living.
He told me:
"We need to find some sport for you"
"i remember now...
i have seen one team way back home"
"Let's go and see"
"It's a team in brown uniforms"
So we go and from that moment...
the coach said "came back tomorrow".
And we were accepted in there.
We arrive with the soccer uniforms.
The ones from the "Pumitas" club.
Everyone laughs but we need to start training...
so immediately we fit and they let us be part of the team.
We learn to play that game and we like it.
Hey son, you with the number 35 what's your name?
What you say?
- Fernando. - And you?
- Enrique
- What you think about...
the way your coaches handle the team?
- It's fine.
- Really?
Are you happy right? - Yes.
- Ok kid, thanks.
Here it is Tala.
Blocking in his first years of football.
He was good on it.
Sixty six.
Than he change his number...
and played with number nine.
I had never been alone in those moments...
my brother was always with me so...
it is a big help.
A support because we are two and...
it doesn't makes you feel alone anymore.
And always both at the same school.
Same sport, same school, same friends...
it's always a important thing.
Maybe for any other person with a similar case...
would not face it in the same way we do...
because it is hard.
But with some one beside you.
For example, when your parents leave you at the school...
you look behind and see your brother...
so there's no problem.
If you need something...
your brother is in the next classroom.
or the next building.
So you know there's some one close to you.
That's a important thing...
in the twins life.
And maybe more for us with all that happen.
DAD
I still see to my dad as...
the leader of this family.
He teach us that...
when you love your family...
it doesn't matter the moment...
you are living.
Because he always take care of us.
and was the support for all the family.
Instead of going down...
"No, no no. Don't give up".
He kept all well organized.
"I take care of the food every night...
and i'll give you money for the bus to the school".
"I have to work and bring the money".
"So if you need, ask for help with the lady upstairs".
And he kept all in order.
And always telling us:
Don't give up, this doesn't end here.
Things have to go better.
This is when my father graduate.
In the E.S.C.A.
Public account career.
My dad when he was young, my mom.
The *** Tala (brother)
And those ones don't know which one is me.
The soccer team!
Yeah, my dad's team.
I don't know the team's name.
But of course...
they have enough for the ***.
When he start to running.
He just practice some amateur sports...
and never could be in a club or a pro level.
But is a man that read a lot since young.
A very cult person.
Always reading books or the newspaper.
A lot and of all kind of subjects.
Talk with him of almost everything.
Politics, social, culture, music, sports...
anything.
So in those moments he knew that...
one activity like the school, the sport, the music or...
any other thing that complement your growing process...
will always help you to be a better person.
To keep you away from the streets and the drugs.
or the vandalism.
Any comments from a special moment in the game?
- The interception.
- The interception, very important moment.
- The game starts.
It's an interception by...
number 35, one of the twins...
he goes forward...
they had sopped him, but he has done his job.
Sometimes my dad enrolled us in other activities...
he came home with the applications.
"What is this?"
- "Tomorrow you start in the water polo!"
He's crazy or what?!
Of course not.
He just think that we should do more things in life.
To knowing more people, more activities, etc.
So the Club Cherokees became...
very important for him.
Here are the boys...
Fernando's Dad Voice getting ready for this crucial game.
Good luck!
do your best, even if you play for a short time.
Sometimes he didn't care to much about the school and say:
"you need to practice for the next game"
"Go for the championship"
He buyed video cameras to record our games.
But always moved by the idea...
of do more things than just going to school or to work.
- Cherokees!!!
Great field position for the team!!
Alright with our defensive line!
Well done! making them loose the ball!
Go for it!
Many people asked him why he stay with us...
any other parents after something like this...
would say:
"This not my problem...
be with god and good bye"
But he say: No!
I will stay and take care of my kids.
BACK TO THE ACCIDENT
The first two weeks i couldn't think anything.
My hand hurts very much.
My fingers were very bloated.
And the pain every night was unbearable.
For moments i doubt if i should go back to Mexico.
I really wasn't sure.
I think: maybe it's over.
What am i going to do.
Nobody knows me here in Canada...
and i need to use my hands for work...
so now what am i going to do
So i tried to calm down.
And two weeks later...
My mom and dad came to Canada.
Like the train back in Mexico.
She almost get hit by a car.
Here it is Fer.
With his baseball cap.
From the... - Blue
The Blue Jays
So we start to talk...
about the decisions...
that my brother and i tooked...
to travel to another country and try to...
make things right and better.
Two weeks talking about all that.
And thinking about all the past in our family.
My mom's accident...
Enrique's illness and operations...
all that things that happened to us.
So my dad connect with me and told me:
Look to your mom, your brother or me...
we never give up...
so now it's your turn.
- It's too cold. - So tomorrow...
we go to the hospital for rehab...
and the thursday?
- Thursday not.
- Ok, so which other days?
I've never been sick in an hospital...
only to take care of them.
Always eating my lunch outside of the hospital.
And wait for them to help and support.
To attend them in the ambulance, etc.
So i have never been ill in an hospital...
until that day when my accident happens.
And my father told me:
"Don't give up, keep fighting"
And at the Niagara falls i decide and tell him...
"i am going to stay here...
i want to learn english and keep working here but...
first i need to recover myself"
I would not interrupt my rehab process...
and less for returning back to Mexico.
Go back and try find a new doctor?.
So i said goodbye to my dad:
I don't know when i will see you again...
but i have decide to stay and make my life here.
- Say hello to all the crew...
from the club Cherokees.
From the C.T.M. neighborhood.
- C.T.M. Culhuacan, 8 and 9 to the left.
UAM University.
Until there...
Until there will arrive this movie.
At the end of 2004 i was almost recovered.
In august i was fully recovered...
so i return to work.
Back to build my life again.
Come in man.
We enter to the basement.
- That side has all done.
- It's a big basement.
- Come on.
- That's your desk and your computer.
Go on man.
Before Tala (Enrique) return to mexico we were only four.
It was Paulina, Claudia and Tala.
Than they decide to return to Mexico in may...
so Paulina and i stay together in canada.
Take care. - Thanks a lot.
- See you in six months.
Ok?
Well i hope so, if not we will be here in Canada.
- Try to return well in all ways.
Healthy...
in mind and body.
-Take care.
It's a "see you later" man.
- Take care of my "Tacos".
- Bye, thanks.
- Why are you crying?
At the end of 2005 was when we separate and...
both take different ways.
I guess it was because...
we didn't know each other as i believed.
Well...
this is where i always wake up every morning.
My bedroom where i sleep every day.
My shoes and some clothes i left there.
Some other clothes over there.
My relationship with Paulina was over but...
we didn't loose the contact.
So we talked...
and start a suit against the factory.
She handled the lawyers and everything.
And the only thing i can tell you is that we loose.
We fought for about four years.
to get a compensation from the metal factory.
But i lost that suit.
The government told me...
at that time you were working as illegal...
so if the factory offers you something, take it...
and go back to your country.
For now that's the only thing that you can do.
VIDEO LETTER
There is Paulina, that tomorrow go back to Mexico.
Today is her last day here in Toronto.
Always recording...
recording wrong.
Now you see where i work...
and where i live.
This place is ok.
And so...
Just to thank you...
for all the support.
Keep sending more money.
You just send more.
Keep sending me the money.
It's not true, just a joke.
That's the last time you send me something.
I know you will always help me but...
i hope some day...
i came back to Mexico to thank you for all this.
But everything is ok.
We are getting old.
I made some new friends there but...
just temporary friends.
All of them very nice persons but...
It's hard to trust at the 100% in new friends.
Only a few people i have met that...
hang out with me on weekends...
to drink a couple of beers...
and on the rest of the week to live by my own...
trying to save some money...
go forward, study english, etc.
You know, learning the language.
and building my life again.
There it is the birthday man!
- Come in man.
- That's the birthday man!
- The tenant!!
- What's up!! - Enter damn it!
- The tenant!!
- The tenant!!
The tenant!!
- In all the different kind of jobs i had...
even for a day or two i met many people.
"what's up? where do you live?...
Which kind of music do you listen?"
And they invite you to their places.
To drink a couple of beers and have some fun...
so you keep in touch and start to know them more.
- The tenant!!
- There's only left me.
We are here to celebrate Clark's birthday!
- Nobody records him.
- No, i have to record myself.
I changed a lot but not at the party.
I always was the same person.
Having fun in all the parties...
trying to enjoy all that i could.
- Over there.
- We arrive!
I better don't count them.
- How many they are? - I don't know.
I have from all kind.
"The Killers".
They aren't in any particular order.
"NOFX"
"The Foo fighters"
When it was this?
In 2005 the first time i see the "Foo fighters"
"Mötley Crüe"
"Green day"
"U2"
"Pearl Jam"
The first time i was in a "Warped Tour" of pure punk music.
Here comes the slam.
And many more.
Hockey.
Base ball.
- Not only concerts?
- No, sports too.
The world cup Mexico vs. Portugal.
The Toronto "Blue Jays"
Football, Bills vs. Horses, that was a good game.
The "Pumas"...
What the *** with "The Pumas".
All that was part of...
getting out the stress and having fun.
So i really enjoy to watch the professional games.
And it had been always part of my life...
the baseball, hockey... all of it.
Azteca TV brings to Mexico...
to "The Leafs".
Here in the games.
The Toronto friends.
- That's Moira? - Moira, yes.
I met Moira at a night club.
I met her by Ashley, her sister and friend of my since 2004.
So i met her in a rock bar called "The Phoenix".
She came and...
we introduced ourselves...
as a friends.
Yes, because nobody introduced us.
I had seen her before in some Ashley's pictures.
So i turn back and say: "hello".
"Hi i am Moira, Ashley's sister".
And i say "Hi i am Fernando...
Chinos's and Basura's friend".
"Yes, i know who you are" she said.
It was the only day i see her.
Because she won't lived in Canada...
she was living in London.
In november of 2010...
not, in december...
i felt very ill.
I turn sickly.
I was taken to the hospital at 3:00 am.
When i was there i fainted in the bath.
Ashley came to see me to the hospital.
I was there for 9 days.
She ask me how i was?...
and told me that she planed to be...
with their family in christmas.
And she invited me to go with them...
to his parents house.
"We travel in two days...
why don't you came with us" she said.
"You can stay the whole week...
we have food and we can take care of you...
Moira is going to be there...
you know her and she's a nurse...
so you don't have to worry about anything.
In that week i spend a lot of time with Moira...
and she ask me many things of my life.
If i have a girlfriend...
what do i think and if i liked Canada.
So i told her that i have decide to...
return to Mexico...
in 2012.
My plan was to return on June or July.
After i do one more job.
And than she ask me:
"don't you like Canada?".
And i say: "It's no that.
It's just that i have done my cycle here.
It's time to go back home.
Because be here as illegal is not the best way to live.
She understood that...
because she was living 5 years in London...
and only came back to Canada at the holidays.
So she comprehend my decision...
and even support me for that.
So she returned to London on January 10...
and 4 weeks later i received a mail from her.
She told me:
"I had decide to return to Toronto and...
spend some time with you".
And said "Fine".
So she returned...
and we start a relationship...
she moved to my place...
and after 7 months we married.
We buy a pregnancy test...
and i was sit on the bed waiting like this.
So suddenly she came out and said:
"You are going to be a dad".
It was a big surprise and changed all my plans.
All about Mexico.
Because i had a plan...
and i knew that...
i have to work very hard for the last 2 years...
in Canada to bring money.
That was the priority.
Because in Mexico at this age, 36 years old...
is really hard to find a job.
So i had the decision to return to Mexico with...
the idea to put some bar or a restaurant...
and work hard to have my own business.
There was no way back.
I said: "If i go out i will never return".
But...
things changed.
This project exist since 4 years ago.
And until now is real.
There are many feelings.
Excitement and fear because...
we are starting in red numbers...
and it's hard.
We are worried for the sales and the next rent.
But...
i really hope that we are going to see results...
and clients.
Of course we have to promote a lot the place.
Only rock music.
It's a place for people that like to listen good music.
To have a coffee...
drink a beer, eat some nachos and talk about music.
There's people that like the rock music...
and people that don't but...
the goal is to find our clients...
give a good service and make all the people return often.
That's our goal.
Fine, i'm fine.
Yes i am conscious about all but...
i had to be realistic.
I am here and i can't do nothing.
That was the decision six months ago and...
we know that this would to happen...
and i can't be with them at the birth.
So she is handle it to.
I hope i can see him...
after the birth and...
be together for 7 days it's a good thing.
I know that they came to Mexico in august...
maybe september.
Since i knew that i was going to have a child...
after the 3d ultrasound scan...
the first thing that came to my mind was...
see him holding a baseball bat...
playing baseball with him or...
taking him to play hockey.
Because i am going to encourage him to practice sports...
i would like he could combine study and sports.
or maybe...
learn music like his uncle Tala...
that by the way wants to give him his bass.
But i see to myself...
telling him all about club Cherokees...
giving him his own helmet, a baseball cap or a bat.
or maybe...
take him to a game or a music concert.
trying to...
show him all what i liked.
And that way he could enjoy the same things...
i enjoyed as a kid.
And there are many things i want to tell him...
because it's not only about me...
i have to tell him all about
my mom, my brother, my friends...
all that i lived with the Cherokees.
Why i live here in Mexico...
why he born in Canada.
so there are many things yet...
i have to explain about us and Mexico.
I hope he can understand quickly all this and...
when he travel to Mexico...
could realize where i came from and...
all i have done in life.
So i have a lot of work to do back there...
in Canada and here in Mexico.
I don't really know how am i going to be as a father...
but many people says that...
when you have kids at 37, 38 or 40 years old...
you are too old and can't understand to your kids.
But i think that...
if you follow the world's rhythm...
for example...
read the newspapers, listen to music, and keep you...
updating with all that happens around the world...
you will understand better to your kid...
than just living in the world.
My father raised me...
based on my time.
He never loose my steps...
always understood what do i want...
since the long hair to the music i liked or...
the school that i want it.
So he never told me "not".
He always went to my time.
Sometimes he even went further and...
give me some music i didn't knew.
So i have to go a step forward to understand him...
and i have to be very demanding...
so he could take advantage of all that he can.
I feel that when i slacken in any sense...
loose the control of all things.
So i think that i have to be more aggressive.
Be a little stringent...
in some way.
My wife is the one who is soft.
She is now giving all to my son.
I think that's the way am i going to be.
In november of 2012 Fernando and Tala start with the coffee - bar 12:51.
that year Moira start the process for the residence...
of Fernando and that way he could travel freely to Canada.
Actually Fernando spend part of his time in Mexico to attend his bar.
and the other part in Canada to live with his family�