MY CHILDHOOD

My name is Wilman Alonso Rúa Sierra, and I’m going to talk a little about my childhood. Well, I was born in the city of Medellín, all my life I’ve lived in Bello, and it has been a great neighborhood to live. I don’t have a big family, I just have three sisters and I’m the youngest. When I was a child, I played with them; especially with my sister Liliana who is one year older than me. For this reason we used to play together.
In those days, I remember that I was so shy and introverted. But, while I was playing with my sister, I could play without any problem because I felt protected by her; actually it was always much fun. These days, we used to play with our cousins. They used to came to my home on vacation. We would play especially street games. Once, we were playing at home and my sister was running, she slammed into a wall. Immediately the wall stopped her, fortunately she wasn’t hurt. Also, we used to go to Comfama park. It was a great place to visit with our friends. There, we played basketball, volleyball and whatever game we wanted, that was so much fun. Another thing we liked to do, was going to “La Meseta”. It is a small mountain near my neighborhood, and we flew kites, ate something for lunch, played games and do a lot of fun stuff.
In addition, I remember my family was very poor, so we didn’t have many possibilities to have a lot of toys. In our case for example, when we didn’t have toys to play, my sister and I had a lot of creativity. We invented games to play with our friends in the street, I remember games like “botetarro, chucha cogida” and many different street games, amazing to play them.
Although in my childhood I didn’t have a lot of things to play, I think I was very happy. I think it was the best time of my life.