This thread went down to page 4 pretty quickly. After 150+ postings I think is time to properly introduce myself.
As I wrote in the What's your age thread, I just turned 30 this year!
But feel like 25!
I'm from Mexico, born in Mexico City and lived there all my life until last year. I've got my BA in Economics there, in a private university that we use to say is the equivalent of the MIT or the University of Chicago Economics Department in Mexico. Then I worked for almost six years in the Mexican Government. I arrived into Austin, TX last year to study my Masters in Public Policy and the LBJ School at University of Texas.
I've always been interested in politics and decided that I wanted to become President of Mexico when I was 8yo!. I've always been more of a "nerd" instead of a political animal. Strangely for someone who was not very good at sports and more of the intellectual, I was always liked, respected and defended by the big guys and bullies at school.
Well, part of my growing up and continual education has been to start becoming a political animal. I guess I've been pretty succesful in turning into that. I ran for President of the student council at my school this year and just lost by a few votes; it was the first time that a foreigner even attempted to run for that position. As a reward, now I'm a representative in the student government of the whole UT, which is pretty cool.
I've always considered myself sort of a political junkie, and love politics and elections everywhere. I've been following American Presidential elections pretty closely since 1988 when I was on vacation here and saw the entire Democratic Convention on TV.
Also hope I didn't bore you to death.
Oh.. my presidential campaign is under way. Hopefully I will run in 2018 or 2024.
