1. My grandfather´s arrival

2. My family records indicate that my ancestors
were born in Pamplona, Spain by the year
1920. They lived in a small house between
“Plaza de Toros” and “Plaza San José”, where
Martin Urrutipi passed most of his life working
and studying. In the year 1936, during Franco`s
government, his parents had not choice than
emigrate from the country due to the civil war
that Spain suffered in that time. They were
worried about their new destiny and they
didn`t have much savings, so they asked for
help at the council, but unfortunately they
didn`t help them because they had bigger
problems. Martin`s family were at the corner
of “Plaza de Toros” when a men approached
and asked them if they wanted to buy tickets
to go to a country called Argentina, and they
were so desperate that that afternoon they
embarked to the new place Argentina

3. They travelled in a ship called “Nueva
Esperanza” and it arrived two days after the
scheduled date because there were strong
winds across the ocean. Once in La Plata, his
father used his last savings to rent a cheap
room for two weeks in an old inn. They didn`t
have money for food or clothing, so his mother
began working as a maid for a rich man near
the inn, and his father got a job in a bakery as
an assistant in the centre of the city.
By the year 1938, Martin left home because
he wanted to live somewhere else, and that`s
when he went to live to Berisso where he got a
job in a mall.

5. In the year 1989 they decided to move back to Llavallol
because I was born and some thieves broke into the
restaurant and stole all the money we had pointing me
on the head with a gun. My parents were so scared
about it that we went to live with my grandparents till
my parents had saved money to build a house. After 8
years of hard work they finished the house where we
actually live in.

7. The city was really quiet, and the citizens were gentle
and respectful, nobody judged him for being Spanish.
His employer had a beautiful daughter called
Alcira, who later on would be his wife. During the years
they became a strong couple and they had several kids.
By the time my father was born (1957) they were
already living in Llavallol because my grandfather was
offered a good job in Firestone and took it.

9. My father studied at the same school my mother
did, and there is where they met with the particular
detail that my father was 5 years older. My grandfather
Cayetano Saucedo (my mother`s father) was against
their relationship because my mother was 12 when
they began dating and she had to sneak out from the
house to see my father. They were dating for 11 years
when my father finally proposed her; they got married
and went to live to Mar del Plata where they run a
restaurant with my uncle for 3 years.