Alexander Vanegas Childhood I remember:

In my childhood I remember that i was a very naughty and outgoing kid. My parents always scolded me because I used to do a lot of bad things.

When I was five years old I didn´t like toe at vegetables and fruits because it looked very disgusting and the flavor was strange for me.So I tried to throw out them the window but my parents always saw me. That was terrible because they yelled at me and so I cried. Also I remember that I broke a lot of things of glass with my soccer ball and I hid them in my courtyard.My parents always realized.

Now, I am going to talk about a story that happened seven years ago. I was in my uncle´s farm. All the family was there and in the farm were many animals and much fun.Furthemore you can swim in the pool and riding horse or ostrich. So all my cousins decided to walk with me around the farm and we realized that we were very far from my uncle´s farm.Besides it was at night but my older cousin had a flashlight and we started to walk more peacefully towards to the farm and we found many animals like cows, horses , chickens. So we realized that we were very near but a small bull interfered in the middle of the road.That was terrible, because I was wearing a red t- shirt and the bull started to run behind me. So I decided to go to a lake. I didn´t know its depth and the bull didn´t stop to run, but that was the only solution. When the bull and I fell down us into the wáter. I saw but i couldn´t do anything for it.However my cousins helped and saved it. When we came to my uncle´s farm, all the family asked us  where were you? And we told them what happened it.Although our parents yelled at us, also they congratulated us because helped to that animal.From that moment on I learned that animals act on instinct and hardly ever they want to attack people. Nowadays every month my cousins and I go to my uncle´s farm to know how is the health of the bull and we fed it very well.

Childhood memories By Manuela Marin

When I was a child I used to play all the time with my friends. I remember I´d around 15 friends and we played different kinds of street games such as: Escondidijo, bote taro, chucha and seguimiento. Also my friends and I like biking, skating, swimming and climbing. I consider that my childhood was perfect because we have fun all the time.

I remember once upon a time my friends and I were exploring in a kind of forest near to my house. We´re playing in a little river, and we´re recollecting guavas and pomas from the trees, and  my friend Juan Pablo has the excellent idea to start to climb a tree. I and the others friends follow him, when I was climbing the tree my pocket’s jeans was linked from a tree branch and it´s torn in my buttock, then I wanted to go down because I felt embarrassed. I put my feet in a very slim branch and I fell down from the tree and my weight fell in my back it was very painful because I was very high I calculate that I was 8 or 10  meters of high, fortunately nothing serious happen. I just have a couple of scrapes. My friends were scared and obviously they help me to stand up and go to home but I forgot it very quickly and we continued playing.

 I always celebrated my birthdays with my friends. It was very good times. we used to crash eggs in the head of the person who has birthday. The number of egg has to correspond to the number of the birthday. It was very fanny and disgusting, once time I was 14 years old and my friends crash me 14 eggs. I had to take around 4 showers because my hair smelled horrible.

I remember another funny story with my friend Isabel, I was 12 years old. We´re in the park. It was late like 9:00 PM we were in the littler house of the park. It hasn´t the table of the middle and isa fell down just in the gap, she was fat so, she wasn´t go out from the gap up her and over her, I can´t help her because it was very fanny. I had a laugh attack. Isa staid caught around half hour until her sister come and help her.

AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD By Carolina Lizarazo Torres

AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD

By Carolina Lizarazo Torres.

In order to talk about my chilhood, it´s important to tell you my family is composed by my Parents Claire and Edilberto (who died many years ago), my brother Jorge, my little sister Claire and of course, me.

I was always a polite and obedient girl, but also I was a very naughty girl sometimes. Therefore I remember perfectly innocent and funny anecdotes of my childhood. For instance: to hide things that I would break, to look for candies that my mom used to keep for our lunchbox for the school, or to bother my sister; For example, once I took her out of her bed and bath her with clothes in the middle of the night. Other times I hid many of her favorite toys just to see her cry. Yes I know sometimes I behaved very badly.

However, I think my biggest mischief which gave a terrible scare to my parents, was to make them believe that I had been hijacked because one day when the school bus took me to my home´s door, I didn´t get in there, instead I went to play to the neighbor´s house without saying anything to my parents who obviously worried a lot, so they called the police and they searched for me throughout the city like a reported case of hijack or disappearance!. Fortunately it was only a fright and a false alarm.

Another funny anecdote occurred at my grandparent´s farm where my brothers and I used to visit them to spend the holydays with them. I remember the farm was fairly big and beautiful and there were all kind of animals like dogs, cats, roosters, cows, bulls, pigs, chickens, hens, sheeps, among others. Back then I used to bother the littler animals such to catch puppies and put them over nests or take the tail of the little cats and throw them to the roofs and also grab chickens strongly.

Finally I want to share with you an entertaining story about a play named “The cousins” who were my sister and I. Among ourselves we used to call us “cousin”, but in the reality we were a couple of beautiful, succesful and glamorous sisters that had an interesting life style travelling, going shopping, to cafes or restaurants, with a great job and of course in a relationship with a famous and handsome guy. Sometimes my brother would participate in the play when we worked, so he was the owner of a powerful company called “Harvard” with his secretary “Margaret Tacher” and he would make important business with our company.

To sum up, undoubtedly I had a remarkable, fantastic, unique and pretty happy childhood. I always had love, bonding, respect, joy and freedom, giving me the possibility to share and enjoy the most pleasant and valuable experiences with my family, memories that are very significant to me and will always be part of my life.

My happiest memory, Martín Monsalve

 Martín Monsalve S.

When I was 10 years old, my happiest memory was when my father took us to the sea for the first time.

My father used to have a farm in Momil, Córdoba. He had cows and some horses.

The farm didn´t have electric energy, so we didn’t have TV and radio.

The funniest experience was to ride the horses and played with the little cows.

But in general was very boring.

The food was the same all time: rice, fried banana and meat. Sometimes my brother and I got out of the farm, and rode 15 minutes to a little store and bought Kola Roman with sweet roll, that was a delicious experience.

At two times we found very dangerous snakes. We also got to see eagles and other kinds of birds.

The trip was worth it because our father took us to the sea. The farm was just outside Coveñas, approximately an hour-long car ride. My father used to drive a Suzuki, model 1982.  He used to drive my brothers and me to the beach once a week. In the beach we could do all sorts of things. We could play with the sand, even built sand castles; we could also play with other kids. Sometimes we even played soccer on the beach. The best thing to do was swimming. My brothers and I used to swim for hours. We had competitions against each other; I would always win.

When we were in Coveñas, my father invited us for pizza.

We loved pizza, especially Hawaiian pizza. I ate about 5 slices.

One time my tummy hurt too much. We also drank a lot of Kola Roman, I used to drink two or three Kola Roman. This soda was only sold in Coveñas, we couldn’t drink it in Medellin, and so we took every chance we had to drink as much as we wanted.

At the afternoon, we drove back to the farm, tired from the swimming. At night we always dreamt about the sea and we couldn’t way to go back. We waited eagerly for the weekend to come so we could be at the beach again.

MY REMARKABLE CHILDHOOD BY:DANIELA BURITICA OCHOA

If i want to talk about my childhood memories I have to start saying that few years ago I was an unusual girl. While others girls played dolls, mommy , make up or things like that I used to played ball ,marbles, tops, fights, videogames, skates or races. I was a naughty, playful, brave and energetic child. My problem was that my games had many risks and I hurt my self, many times.

 One day I went to camp in “La pintada”. It was my first camp without my parents and I was so exciting. My cousin Luisa came with me and we stayed there five days. This camp was awesome. We did many activities like play in the pools, toboggans ride, cycling, walking, fires, and games every time. The third day I woke up early before of my partners and I took a bath first. The activities were special this day because we went to ride horses out of the camp place. All was ok; we walked 45 minutes to arrive to the place where the horses were. The instructor started to explain how to ride a horse and then he put us on the horse.

My horses name’s was Blanquita. It was a huge and white horse. It was my first time riding a horse so I was so scared.I started to tremble and scream. When the instructor finished putting us above the horses, Blanquita started to walk. Then it walked faster and then It started to run. I didn’t know what I have to do in this moment I only thought how get off. I pull the reins and Blanquita stopped in her hind paws. Immediately I fell down of the horse and I started to run because the horse was scared too and it run and jump very much.Unfortunately  I fell in a barbed wire and it introduced in my leg. While I ran it cut off me. My instructor took me and he asked to me if I wanted go to the hospital. I said no because after the horses we had our toboggans hour. He cleaned my wound and then I applied an ointment.

When I came back my father was angry because I didn’t say him what happened when he called me. He talked with my instructor and then he scolded me long time. After this day I rode a horse more times but this experience let me my biggest scar.

DANIELA BURITICÁ OCHOA

Christmas by: Andrea Rodríguez

Christmas!

By: Andrea Rodriguez

For me, Christmas day is very important because I spend all day with my family.

I remember a Christmas day when I was five years old, I was living with my grandparents. That day was very important because my family waited my uncle, he stayed in USA. My parents and all family went to my grandmother's house at 6pm.

My grandmother was in the kitchen. She used to cook dinner for Christmas every years. Also, we used to eat dinner together. After the dinner they were talking about different things while my cousins and I was ran in the garden, we played together during at night.  We used to dance and they drank champagne to celebrate. Always my aunt and my other uncle was doing the barbecued, my grandfather prepared the natilla and majar blanco. That was a great Christmas Day.

It was almost 12:00, we stayed in the living room and we were waiting for the gifts. My uncle brought many gift, I thought all night about my gift. I was excited because I didn't ask nothing, however I waited a gift.finally we opened the gifts. 3 gifts were for me, in the last box I found a beautiful toy horse. I was so happy, I played all time with it. After we talked, danced and played At 4:00 a.m.I was having a good time with my family, but a couple of hours later I had to go to bed. That Christmas Day was one of the happiest I ever had and I was happy together with my family.

I had many gift but that was better, I will never forget it. I am 20 years old and I have my horse in my bedroom, I think to keep this Toy.

The slide By: Ana Carolina Sánchez

The slide

By: Ana Carolina Sánchez 

This story was when I was five years old, and I studied in "Instituto Jorge Robledo". I had many friends and we used to play in the dolls house, play in the wooden car, we feed the ducks, and we used to play in the tree, and in the slide.

One day the teacher touched the bell to break, always I ate cheetos and blackberry juice, after I went to play with my friends, that day I went to play in the slide and when I was down of it take in it went to slowly till the end, my friend Catalina posada said to me "hey Caro, can you  show me how can I do it like you?" because she didn't know, and I told her " of course!", in that instant I climbed to the slide and I prepare for to throw me, but at that moment the teacher touched the bell to enter to the class and I was throwing me but my hands were slippery because before I ate cheetos.

Regrettably, I could not down because I fell down and my head buried in the ground and my body fell on my arm, when I stand up I saw that my wrist  was broken, then I began to cry and my friend help me. She took me to the staffroom, then my teacher called my mother and she told my mother " your daughter had an accident".

After my mother went to school for me and she took me to the center of fractures, doctors checked me out and  made me do an x-ray exam to see that I what happened, when they put the plaster, my mother saw that my nose was swollen and twisted, then the doctor told my mother "she may have broken nose", after my mother took me the other doctor and he checked my nose, then he told my mother " carolina has a deviated septum, and she needs an operation but it can not be done and that is very small and the nose grows, stagnates, she operable when she is 18 years". Finally all my life breathe through your mouth because my nose could not.