By José Alfonso" sarguero".

Of the hundreds of anecdotes lived during my five years of rural teacher in the School of Bologna (Rate), I rescue a that I remember with special affection.

That tomorrow of Monday, on the eight thirty, did my entrance in Bologna conducting my old one Ibiza of the one that so much work cost to remove me. It was cold one morning of February and the first lights foretold a pretty tomorrow, without more I directed me toward the escuelita to go organizing the task of the day, but nothing more to arrive at the immediacies of the school, a delegation of children signs do me and literally they are thrown over my car, frightened I stopped dead and I descended of the car thinking that had occurred somewhat serious to the They arrived in the van with the first shift of transportation.

- Alfonso, Alfonso runs, runs.., ¡h oh a fishes mu large in the edge of the beach! .

- ¿ An "it fishes mu large "?, ¿ but kid what you are counting me?

- So so... you appear you and will see it, ! is larger than you ¡

My almost two meters gave faith that were what were should be large, so I park the car as I am able and that remedy…… to leave running down the beach to see al "fishes mu large".

Comply went me approaching the edge I glimpse the silhouette of a fish of at least two meters long coleteando in the rebalaje, by the silhouette would swear that is a lemon or a palometón enormous, but, in one of the swayings appears the side and I see him the head, the fish in question is not a fish, is a dolphin.

Nothing more to arrive and with a clique of children asking me that to do, it did not I doubt, I put me in the rebalaje with the water and the waves breaking against me, I caught al dolphin in arms and soaked I removed it to the edge. The faces of the kids al to see so pretty animal I continue them recalling as if they had passed some minutes.

- ¿What do we do Alfonso?

- V you be going to seek to Flashy ( my companion and resident teacher in Bologna) and count him that business about the dolphin. ..

While and trembling from cold, I begin to value the situation and trying to recall what can be done with a stranded whale. Just then something magician happened, I looked at al dolphin and his eyes seemed full of tears, with a more own look of a person that of an animal, a message launched me.

"... P icha I am enough jodio. T go jodio that I have not been able to fight more and the waves have dragged myself toward the rebalaje... , by your mother you throw me a cable"

I know that the animals do not speak, but I assure you that that was the message that felt in my heart al to see its eyes and prompted by the desires to be able to help it, the lame thing again between my arms and I direct me to a small saltwater gap that there was al bottom of the beach, the idea was to maintain humid the skin of the dolphin in wait that arrived my And to value what to be able to do.

Once it put in the gap with mud to half of the leg, my pants levis white fact a chromium and trembling from cold, start the operation of dampening the skin of the dolphin and they begin to arrive the other students of the School, my companions and a group of neighbors.

- What do you do Alfonso, what has passed? Tells me my Flashy companion.

- Here you have me with a dolphin that has remained stranded and is still I live, him I see injury by no side and apparently is well.

- V oy to call a veterinary my friend. Q uédate with him ,that now I come.

Does not it do lack to tell you that by that moment average village of Bologna was in the beach and that of course, the students began to collaborate in maintaining humid al dolphin.

To this the patrol of the Civil Guard arrived, to which I reported of the situation, deciding these that the best was to transfer al dolphin al port of Rate and to free it there or in altamar with aid of a fishing ship.

The idea did not penetrate well among the boys, above all because al to try to manipulate it and to put it in a plastic bathtub species, the animal began to coletear and the queue scratched itself. And I say that did not penetrate well because in the previous summer also varó a dolphin and died while was transferred in the car of the Civil Guard toward the spring of Rate.

Al to seem one of the Civil Guards was not especially dexterous in the works of manipulation of the animal and in spite of the warnings tried to the brave to put it in the rear one of the van, being struck the head the animal and remaining middle dazed.

The children recalled it happened and also al civil guard, so began a discussion on what to do with the dolphin for the time being in which arrived Flashy with the news that a veterinary one was of road and that the dolphin not itself to move from there.

After a wait hours pair and with the continuous cares of the kids, the veterinary from Bárbate arrived, valued the state of the animal measuring him the temperature in the flipper number (quite curious thing) and verifying that breathed with certain difficulty by the narina, the orifice that have the whales over the head to breathe. The animal suffered of a virus that already al except other twelve dolphins in the seaboard had charged itself from cadiz affected of the same one badly.

The thing did not paint well for the dolphin, so ours veterinary was put in contact with the CREAM (Central of Recovery of Marine Species Threatened) with headquarters in the Classroom of the Sea of Malaga, who they advised to continue dampening the skin of the animal and to try not to stress it.

While the veterinary they arrived of malaga, Tanee a student of German origin began to speak with the dolphin and to caress it with so much sweetness that more than one tear began to sprout between teachers and neighboring. The girl, as many other children, itself did not he separate of the dolphin and I assure you that this thanked with the look the pamperings and the caresses of the small one Tanee. After three hours of wait arrived at Bologna the van of the marine biologists that immediately they began to lend their cared for al dolphin, wrapping their skin in vaseline and preparing a stretcher especially designed for the transfer of the dolphins.

It arrived the moment of the departure of the dolphin Tanee did not want to be removed of the animal, there was not way to convince it, so we decide a pair of teachers to accompany it in our car after the van.

But,.. . Q uién was going to leave alone to Tanee and al dolphin? . Immediately the neighbors they were organized and a delegation of Land rovers and tourisms, some ten, is put after the van to accompany them to Malaga, seemed incredible that of a village of 400 inhabitants, some forty people to decide immediately accompanying to a dolphin.

The walk to Malaga was very pleasant for our dolphin, therefore Tanee became its nurse and companion, according to us they counted the veterinary was all the trip crying and speaking with him, trying to convince him that should be put good, that we were helping it, that would swim again free.

When we arrive al classroom of the sea, they freed al dolphin in a tank of observation and some antibiotics they injected him to fight the virus that suffered, the expectations were nothing good, therefore already they had tried at more than a dolphin in the same or better conditions and nevertheless they had died.

We say good-bye of the veterinary with the impression in fact somewhat large and with the memory of the dolphin in the pool of the classroom of the sea looking at and giving us the thanks, was a full and somewhat sad return of emotions, with Tanee and more than one student crying and asking if would be saved.

Fortunately this history finished well,PACO the dolphin, baptized thus in honor al boy that found him, he managed to recover fully and to the following week he was freed in water of Rate.

The news appeared in the press of every Andalusia and in Antenna 3 they did a small report above all an event, the recovery and put at liberty of the first Common Dolphin that managed to save itself in Spain. In words of the veterinary interviewed, the attentions and cares that the students of a small village of Rate, Bologna, they had lent al animal, they influenced decisively in the salvation of the dolphin.

Bolonia..., a magical world in which I had the privilege to pass my better years of teacher.

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