A Family Adventure

This adventure was very special for me. It all started like six years ago. My mom and dad had decided that for vacations we, my dad , my mom , my brother , and me , were going to go to Disney World in Orlando , Florida in the United States. This was not the very first time that I went there nor the last one , but it was special for me because my mom and dad had told us that we are were not going there alone like always , we were going there with my aunts , my uncles , my cousins , and my grand mother were going to with us.

It was on the first week of December in which the trip had started. We all pack our clothes and the stuff that we are going to bring to Orlando and put it in our suitcases. We put the suitcases in the car and drove to the airport of Guatemala. We meet my family in the airport and then we waited until the airplane was ready to fly. When the air plane was ready , we get on the inside it and waited a little more until it started to fly in the blue sky. In the airplane , I remember , the flight lasted for like two and a half hours. The airplane landed on Miami , Florida , so after grabbing our things from Miami Airport we went out side of it and went directly to a bus so it could get us to a place for us to rent a car because we were going to go there by  car. The car was very big ; it was like a little school bus all for ourselves. The bus was white and it had like eight or seven rows and my dad was driving it. We were very comfortable in there , we had to be comfortable because we were heading to Orlando and from Miami to there was a four hour trip.

We reach Orlando very late. We get lost in there, we were traveling in circles, and we could not be able to find our hotel, until my dad saw the hotel signpost behind a one that was bigger. We had passed over there like for three times and we did not saw it. We then went to the hotel and check in and then we went to find our rooms, and when we did we saw that all of them were very close together and then we went inside of them and we all put our suitcases inside and fixed some of our things and went to sleep, I think, waiting for the real trip to start.

We had two weeks to go and visit all the Disney parks. I think that first we chose to go to Magic Kingdom. We went two times there and both of them were very happy. We stayed there the whole day in both times. We went to every game in there; we did not had to make the row like all the other people in there because we had fast pass tickets, which allowed us to make another row but it was fast and smaller in all games. I remember that in Splash Mountain we all get very wet and it was very funny to see all my family wet. My favorite game in there was Space Mountain because I like the space and all space things. There was something I did not like in there and it was because after going down of the game I got a headache because all of the hard movement inside the game. We also watched the parades in there and the fireworks when the park is closing.

We went to the other parks to. In Epcot , I remember , my little cousin cried because she did not like the sensation of a game. All parks were fun and happy. We also made some shopping in there. We bought things for ourselves and some Christmas presents because it was getting close.

I had a special adventure in there, a family adventure, which I really enjoyed and shared with my family.

A Change in Life

I went almost every summer there. It was very happy and excited; with almost all of my family in there we got a lot of fun. It was in the huge farm of my grand father. It was very big and fun, with a lot of big trees, different kinds of horses, and unfortunately a lot of insect every where.

I remember that we went there a lot of times when I was little and we got plenty of fun there. To get there it was a one and a half hour trip in car. We went there to spend some part of the vacations; we stayed like for one half week there. My uncles , my aunts , my grandparents , my cousins , and my mom , dad , and brother where always there when there where some days off and all of us could be there at the same time. Some times some friends went there too so we get more fun there with them.

I remember that the first thing that we used to do after taking off our stuff from the car and go to put it in our rooms in an order way and then after that we get changed our clothes putting our swim suit on and then we went directly to the crystalline water of the pool and have plenty of fun there. We used to throw ourselves to the pool by some kind of a small waterfall that the pool had. We played water polo with all kids there and sometimes adults join us to play with them. We stayed playing there in the pool until the lunch time. The food was always a barbecue and was very delicious , we ate a lot there , we ate meat , barbecue ribs , and a lot more kinds of food , but it was always meat , and a salad too , but I never ate it , I only ate meat there , I do not know why.

Sometimes we organized like some kind of soccer tournament between us. We divide ourselves in different teams and then we played in the soccer field that the farm had and we played soccer until we could not keep going and we got very tired. After finishing playing our soccer tournament we went to refresh our selves in the pool because we were with a lot of hot because of the game.

What I did not liked in there was the nights. At that time all the insects where there and they all bite you. I could not sleep there I had to sleep with all the blankets above me and with a insect repellent and that was not enough. In the mornings I always wake up with a lot of insects bite and they were very itchy. They were always in my arms and I have to put some cold water in my arms so I did not scratch my self. I did not like it.

I remember once that we brought our dog there. He is a Golden Retriever ; he is a very big dog. My dog , Cosmo , once , in the morning he was running around and he came back to the house with a dead chicken in his mouth , my dad followed him until my dad grabbed the dead chicken from his mouth. I was sleeping when that happened and when I woke up my dad told me what happened and then I saw the dead chicken all bitten by my dog.

All this memories are from the past, we where growing up back then after a few years we did not went so often. It was not fun anymore sometimes I get bored there because there was not anyone of my age with I can be there. There was a point in which we never went there anymore.

That farm I think is still the same but I think that my grand father sold it and we never went there again.

A Snowy Change

The meaning of weather according to a dictionary is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Weather refers, generally, to temperature and precipitation activity of every day.

Weather can take many forms in the environment. It can be cold, cold enough so that you have to wear a lot of clothes at the same time and you do not want to get out of your house because of the cold and all your body is shaking because of the cold or maybe not. The cold weather can be with freeze wind, with a lot of rain, with a lot of snow or just a little or with a blizzard, or with all three at the same time. The weather can be also hot. It can be with no clouds on the sky and you have to go inside something so that you can refresh yourself, or that horrible hot weather that you sweat a lot and you feel so tired that you can barely move and you do not want to do anything. Weather can be tropical, I think this is the best type of it, you feel so good with it and so fresh and god gave my beautiful country Guatemala that weather and we are so lucky in my country that we do not get that suffocating hot or that very cold blizzards we get like the combination of them not to cold but not to hot.

But weather is not only that; weather is a lot more than this. Weather not only affects the environment around us it also affects us, the way we act and think and also feel are affected in different ways, depending on each person, because of weather.

I can not tell the way in which people may change because of weather because each one of us is different from each other. For example when it starts to rain a lot some people may feel sad and depressed but some others may feel relaxed and happy because it is raining. I remember one time in which my emotions change because of the change of weather, it was four years ago. I was visiting my aunt in Denver, Colorado in the United States in November. We get there so we could celebrate Thanks Giving with them. We get there like one week before Thanks Giving Day. My aunt told us that on those days it snowed a lot, so we got excited because I was never able to see the snow. In that week it never ever snowed so we get sad about it and it was really weird because it was really cold the temperature was like - 10º C and it did not snowed, so we get sad about it. 

One night I was sleeping and I remember that my dad wake up us all and told us that it was snowing. We all, my mom, my brother, and I, get up as fast as we could and went to see and it was really snowing. I felt a lot of happiness in that little moment because it was the first time I saw the snow with my own eyes. We could only get out just a little because it was like 3 a.m. and it was freezing I think the temperature in that moment was like - 10º C. We then went to our beds and went to sleep. My bed was in front of a window so I fall sleep watching how the snow falls. The next morning I woke up like 6:30 in the morning and I directly went outside and played with the snow with my family and with the three dogs that my aunt have. We were there all morning; we made a frosty that lasted all the time in which we were there, like two more weeks. I was very happy in that moment and now I realized that I became very happy because of the change of weather. Then we celebrated Thanks Giving with snow.

A Vampire’s Impression

 A few years ago, I remember they were three years ago, I was in school, at the first day of school after vacations, it was a normal happy and at the same time sad school day. It was happy because I could see my friends after a long time I have not see them. It was also a sad day because it was the first day of school and we have to wake up early and study and making homework after a good and nice vacation.

In the class I have noticed a few new kids in school. I spoke to one of them, telling him what was his name and from what school he came. He told me that he and some new kids in school of my grade had been conditioned by school. The ones who had been conditioned were only boys. They get conditioned by school because they did some bad things in the admissions days in school if they do something bad they will get expelled from school; he did not tell me what he did and I ask him to many times but he was a tomb, he never told me what he did. But he told me what kids got conditioned with him and then he laugh.

After the first periods of class finished, I get up of my desk, took my books to my locker, grabbed some food to eat, and went with my friends. We went out of the class because it was recess time.

Then outside I started walking around with my friends. We went with other kids and there was a kid. He was new in school. He was not in my class, but he was in my grade. He has black hair, brown eyes, and white skin. My first impression about him was that he was like some kind of a really smart kid who knows a lot of things and has good grades. Then someone told me that he was one of the new kids who got conditioned before school started, one of the kids who got conditioned with the other new kids in my class. Then I thought that I was wrong and he had to be a kind of kid who like to go out, bother other people, and do not care about school at all, because if he was already punished by school and the first day of has not finished yet, he had to make some very bad things that just some kind of kinds do. Then I thought that I must been wrong because he was very quite and he seem like he was bored. I did not know what to think about him there so I never put him attention.

I did not put him to much attention to him because he was not in my classroom and I did not talk to him because he got other friends. But when people, who where in his classroom and know him well, told me that he was really smart and also wise because of his way of talking because he use sophisticated rare words instead of the normal language that we use at that age make him also funny I could not understand why. I guess because I did not know him well.

This year he is in my class and I could know him well and finally understand why people think about him in that way. He is very quiet but when he talks he says some words that make the class laugh a lot. When some teachers do not know something about the class they always ask him first because I think he has an encyclopedia inside his head and when the class stays quiet because we do not what to comment about what teachers are saying they always call his name so he could say some thing smart about it. He is really funny.

We tell him that he is the next generation of the human race and that he is a vampire because his skin is very white like snow. I believe more that he is a vampire. So he creates like a vampire’s impression to confuse us but when you get to know him that vampire’s impression disappears and you know how he is.  

“Sunday Ritual”

Today I am going to talk about something that I think is a personal ritual. This personal ritual is always the same thing, always the same activities. It is more like a family ritual than a personal ritual because I make it with my family and we do always the same things, but sometimes some of them change, but just a little. And there are some days that we are not able to make it because we have something else to do or somewhere else to go or something like that.

 First of all I did not thought of it as a ritual at any time. That word never came through my mind. It provably never came through my mind because I enjoy it and I am also sure that no people in my family have thought about it as a ritual for them because it is normal for them and for me to do it every Sunday.

What I do every Sunday is first wake up in the morning from my comfortable bed and really costs me a lot because I would like to still be sleeping and dreaming in my bed. I open my eyes like at ten o’clock in the morning and the first thing that I do I to see the beautiful day that it is outside, or it could be a rainy day too through my window by the left side of my bed, but I am still in lying in my bed getting some more resting hoping to not to finish the day because the next day is Monday and I have to wake up early and go to school. Then after fifteen minutes lying in my bed awake I get up and I get out of my bedroom and go to say good morning to my family in home. I wait a little more and then I go downstairs cross to the left and go to the kitchen to go to eat my delicious breakfast that my grandma has made. Most of the time I eat ranchera eggs.

 After finishing breakfast I go up stairs cross to right and keep walking straight until I enter my parents’ bedroom and then cross right and enter the bathroom to go to take a shower. I take the shower after my brother had finished because he always takes it first, he always beats me I do not know why, maybe because he is faster than me, and then after taking the shower I get dressed and I brush my teeth. Then we wait for my dad to come back from the gym and wait also for him to take a shower and to be ready.

Then when all my family is ready we all go downstairs get out of the house, go to the garage and get inside of the car and my dad drives to go to the church. The church is inside of a condominium named “Santa Rosalia” and we have to park the car, but it is difficult to do it because there goes to many cars and there are no more places near to park the car when we get there so what we usually do is that my mom, brother, and grandma get off the car and go inside church to grab a spot. I stay with my dad and go to park the car and then walk to church. We stay in the church praying and listening for like one hour, sometimes we could be more some time in there but it depends on how long it becomes.

Then we go to eat at some restaurant. Every Sunday is a different restaurant. My brother and I get to choose sometimes but some other my dad chooses because he is always on a diet because he is a bodybuilder and has al lot of competitions. He had won some of them; my dad has a lot of trophies in home, some of fist place, some of, second place and some of third place.

Then if we want we go to the mall to buy some stuff. Then we all go home and get ready to the next day.

So this is what I do every Sunday, this is my personal ritual, this is my Sunday Ritual.