My father

Today I was not very creative,so I checked some topics that Charly gave us to write about each time we run out of ideas,and I found one that is very interesting.I´m going to tell you about about someone who I loved somuch but is no longer here:my dad.Jose Antonio was his name,and he died 7 years ago,on a winter day.He died because his lungs were severed damaged by tobacco,he used to smoke a lot,it was his addiction.He was a great man,who taught me many things,especially important things about life and how to try to be a better person each day.He had a strong character,always fighting(using only words) and speaking his mind when something was wrong in his opinion.I think in some ways that he was a rebel,because all his life he struggled against the things he didn´t like,against everyday injustice that anyone can percieve.Although he had a strong character,he was very funny as well.He had a strong sense of humour(which I think sometimes that I inherited) and he was most of the time making jokes and bothering(in the good sense) my mother.My dad had a special gift to create nicknames;one day we counted every nickname by which he used to call my sister,and we found that he had invented at least 50 nicknames for her!!!what we did next was to write the nicknames in a sheet of paper and paste it on my sister`s bedroom door.He was always a good joker and an entertainer;he could spend hours on end inventing games or telling us stories,which were very absurd and hilarious.I remember that my brother and me used to call him "boss"(jefe)because he used to call his friends this way.My father worked all his life in a technical school here in Tafi Viejo,he was a teacher of technical subjects there.He really liked listening to Tango,he had a great collection of old L.Ps.He was also a great fan of boxing;he even watched a "mono" gatica´s fight in the Luna Park.I remember those saturday nights when I was a little kid and we used to watch the fights on tv...Sometimes I feel sorry for myself because I couldn´t enjoy his company the way my brother and my sister did(I am the youngest brother)but now I feel that I was lucky to know such a wonderful person that taught me so many things and helped me to understand this life.I miss him very much and I will always do.