A Surprise #12

It was a surprise for my big sister. My mom organized and planed her baby shower; this baby shower was very special because I am going to have a nephew, my firs nephew. My sister didn’t know that we were going to give her a surprise. We prepared everything in the house of my aunt. The time arrived and my younger sister and I were exited. We weak up really early and we get ready for going to my house’s aunt. When we get there, my aunties were cooking different kinds of food. They were very busy. We get into the kitchen and we began helping them. First, we prepared all the food. Then we cut the fruit, apples, watermelon, melons, and pineapple. We put the food separately; the food looks like it was in the buffet. There was guacamole, rise, beans, steak, chicken, salsa, chips, burritos, tacos, salads, and drinks hot chocolate, coffee, sodas and juice. Later, my aunties, my sister and my mom went to decorate the space where we were going to celebrate the baby shower. There were many things to hang up but the most of the things where tied up and there where so many balloons. The colors of the balloons were blue and green.  When we finished with the decoration, we went to take the food and put it in a big table.  At 4:30 my sister arrived, everybody yelled “surprise” she was surprise and her eyes were with some tears but with a big smile. She was nervous and her face was red, and she looks like little shy. After, she arrived everybody gave her a hug and everybody began eating because they were waiting for her to began eating. When the people finished eating they began playing, I just were taking picture of the games that they were doing and my sister where laughing of what the women were doing in front of her. They were playing games that they look like little girls but they look funny. When they finished playing the time for the cake began the cake look delicious and was delicious my sister cut it and gave to all the people who were setting there. The cake had a little baby at the top and my sister put it away because she said “I am going to show this to my baby when he grows up.” My sister began open the gifts like traditionally, one by one and telling whose gifts name was. There were so many gifts, the people gave to the baby, soccer shoes, shoes, clothes, pajamas, creams, money, toys, and so on. My sister looks very happy when she was looking to all the gifts because she never thought that my mom and we were planning her baby shower. Like 11:30 we get home and we help her to carry all the gifts, she look very tired as everybody else. I was really tired but I was happy because my sister, my mom and I were thinking that maybe the baby was going to born before the time the baby shower but everything was on time. Now we are just waiting for him. J

Wedding blog #11

I think everybody has being in a wedding. I went to a wedding this Saturday and I had never seen a bride crying so much at the wedding. I saw her coming from one door, her brother was holding her hand.  I liked her dress because her dress was according to day wedding.  I feel some kind of nostalgic when I saw her crying and when her brother was telling her how much he loves her.  She started crying when she arrived at the table where she had to sing the paper she began crying. The guy was waiting for her at the table, he moved her tears from the face and he gave her a hug. The ceremony begins and she did not stop crying. Her mom and her brother saw her and they look like they wanted to cry too. Her mom was sad because she was the first girl that was going to get married and she loves her a lot. The ceremony was about fifteen minutes. Finally, the ceremony ended and everybody went to hug them. At this moment she stopped crying. 

When the party begins, everybody gets up of their chair and begin dancing. Like traditionally on her culture her brother representing her father danced with her the first song.  Like everybody dance with them every person put money on their clothes and they have to dance with the people who putted the money on.  After the toast arrived, mmmmm it was delicious to cheer with them. They had beers, Tequila, and champagne. Anything you wanted to drink it was there.  The food was delicious too.  The food was Mexican and Guatemalteca. People could take whatever they wanted to eat. The just married went to cut the cake and they took many pictures.   One thing that happened during the party was that the rain begins and everybody was dancing in the rain. Everybody was wet but they like to be like that and the rain didn’t stop them.  The party was in a house and that was the reason why they get wet when the rain was on them. They were exited. Everything on the party was very organized but they didn’t realize that the rain was going to appear during the night, they didn’t check out the weather.

Finally the party was over and everybody leave. They were wet but they enjoyed the party. I enjoyed the party very much and I was happy because I shared with my boyfriend’s family. I learned how a mother love a daughter and how important is spend  some time with her before getting married. It was sad thing for me was to see how the mom of the bride was leaving her daughter with her husband.  I think she was crying because she was going to leave her family and now she was going to start a new chapter of her life. I think life is like that and someday everybody is going to leave his or her family to make their own life.

Some children Abuse blog #10

   When some parents slave and abuse their own sons and daughters. For example, they use their children to make some profit. They put their children to lied for them to make money from another people. If the children don't want to work for them they don't give them food even where to sleep.  Also, they hit the children when they want to work. At some points parents sell their daughters to other guys by money. Some of the parents send their sons at the corner to ask for money.They dress their children like homeless to make other people think they are poor. In some cultures like Latinos they chose the men who the daughters is going to get married like I said before they sell their children without thinking what the children want or think. In most of parts of Mexico people think they give birth to the children they think they own their lives and they can do whatever they want to them.

 At the end parents don't think how in the happiness of their children. They don't think if they feel bad or good been abuse and slave. The consequences are they hate them, they are affected psychology, physical and emotional. Some of them like to run out of their houses. Some of the children are suicide by themselves because they think their parents don't love them. The parents think this is the way a parent should educated them. 

 I think if parents or people want to have children should be prepared for everything because the work of being a father or mother is not easy, they have a heavy work on how educated their children without making a mistake.

My party blog #8

I think many girls like  15 or 16 years think that they will have a Quincianera or Sweet 16 will have a party to celebrate. When I turned 15 I had a big party. My mom bought me my dress; it was ivory color and very long. I sent all the invitations to all of my friends and my family. I sent the invitations one month before the party.  I was very excited because I was thinking that they party was coming up.  I was preparing to my party, and I thought that this was the first time that I was going to share with all of the people that I love the day of my birthday.  For me, it was a dream to become true.  My little sister was excited, too.  She helped me out to buy the shoes that I was going to wear that night.  She always told me that I had to enjoy the day of my Quincianera that day because it was not coming to be again.  The big day was already there and I was anxious and happy.  My uncle from Los Angeles was coming to my party, and I was in Guatemala.  He went to my party because he told me I was a special person for him.  I went to the beauty salon, so the person that was in charged could do my hair.  I practiced few times for the dance in the night.  I had fourteen maids that accompanied me in the church and in the party. 

My uncle put flowers on the car that was taking me to the church, and my family was ready to go, too.  I was crying because I was emotionally happy.  I got to the church and one of my aunts ordered the fourteen maids in order.  My family went first and then the fourteen maids and finally the last that entered the church was me.  I looked around and people stared at me.  I felt my veins that were going to explode inside of me.  It was the first time that I was being the person that everybody looked at.  The service was finished and all of the people went to my party.  All of them got first and the last one was me.  Later at night I was dancing the song that a Quincianera dance for the first time.  While I was dancing at the party, the maids were around me like in a circle.  The song that I was dancing got stock and it was not good because it a shame for me because people were staring at me.  Each family brought me a gift that means that they received my invitation to go to my party.  My family at the end of the party gave thanks to all of the people that attended to the party.  When the party was almost over I had to change my dress, I have to wear another dress because I my life change from being a girl to be a woman.  I just realized that my life changed.  

Sweet Heart blog #7

My sister and I were moving furniture around at the room where the baby was going to sleep.  In the room were many things that we have to put in order because she wanted to fix everything before the baby was born. The big deal was to move the big furniture and the crib. This baby was going to be my second niece. When the day ended my sister was very tired. She had a pain on her waist. She was looking really bad and I was scare because nobody was at my house and my brother in law hadn’t come yet from work. My sister told me, “my baby is going to born, I feel very hard pain.” My sister couldn’t stay sit. She began walking at the house. Oh my God! I was in shock I didn’t know what I have to suppose to tell her. I was really nervous because my sister was yelling and nobody answers the cell phone. The minutes were long like hours.  I was trying to keep her walking and walking while my family got home. She was sweating. Her face looked red and sometimes white. She had putting her hands at her back like if she wants the pain becomes less. She asks for help and I didn’t what to do. In about in an hour my family arrived they get scare too. They took her to the hospital immediately. We went to the hospital and my brother, my younger sister, and I were outside of my sister’s room but my mom my brother in law went inside.  My sister had the pain from 9:00 pm to 5:00 am. Finally, we saw our brother in law walking toward us and he told us that our little baby girl had born. Everything with the little baby was ok. That was exciting and was happy for every one of us. After tree days we got them at home.

We had another member of our family. With this new born I was scare because I had never seen a women suffering like my sister was. Now when I have free time I take of the baby, she is sweet and her name is Valeria. Also, the doctor said something important that when I women is pregnant, and she is in her last days of pregnancy, she have to be careful and take care with what she does because that can make the baby comes before the time assign. This makes me understand that she shouldn’t move anything when she was fixing the room and now I knew it why.

Dangerous Home Blog #7

There was two houses, one was up on the hill and was down the hill.  My mom never left anybody goes into the down hill.  The curiosity was increasing by everybody especially by me.  One day my sister and I went through the house without telling my mom.   We went into the house and we saw many cans, spiders and rats.  As we were walking inside we were discovering many stuff old stuff. When we get into one of the room we were looking around.  We were on shock because there was a big black snake.  At this moment the snake was at the door and how we were going to get out the house. We couldn’t scream nor talk loud.  My sister and I were standing near each other.  It was late when my Mom was picking some sticks for the fire of my home.  We saw her by the window and we nock the window to know let her know that we were inside. She saw us and she went to the house.  After my mom get into the house, we told her that the right at the door was a snake.  She screams and she went for help. T he sun almost was setting and many people of the village come down.  They bring guns and rocks.   They tried to put some stick between them but they couldn’t hold the snake.  One of the guys tried to tore the wall and in that way we can get out of the room.  They broke the wall and we could get out of the room but they wanted to kill the snake.  The guys used their guns to kill the snake.  They shoot the snake and after a few minutes the snake was bleeding.  With some stick they pull it out of the house. It was already death.  It was really long snake.  The people cut in many peaces and put fire on it.  We were saved and we went home with my Mom.

Finally, we get home and when we arrived home my mom was really mad. We talk to her that never we were going to anywhere without telling her. My sister and I learned that sometimes is dangerous go to places that we don’t know. Also, we have to tell my mom where we are going to be because if something happen she is going to be there for help.

Angry Cow

His name is Rene and his sister’s name is Delmi.  Their grandma always sent them with lunch for their grandfather.  When they did walk through the path, they played with butterflies and flowers.  One day he and his sister crossed the river and they saw a cow toward them.  They shocked and they started running because the cow was following them.  The cow was following them at the river.  They were trying to cross a fence, but his sister got stock.  Rene pulled her toward him and she jumped on him.  Delmi noticed that she lost her sandal on the other side where the cow was.  Rene had to give her his sandal.  Rene had to walk with barefoot and they had to go around the fence to get where his grandfather was.  Their grandfather was very angry at them because they were late and he was hungry.  They were scared that the cow was going to run behind them, so they waited for his grandpa.  On the other hand, the grandpa was happy because they would help him in the land.  At the afternoon they were going home they saw the cow waiting for them at the other side of the fence.   Their grandpa was worry because they have to think how they were going to cross the fence.  They waited until the night to see if the cow leaves but the cow didn’t leave because it looked at them and smell them.  After a little while, the cow leaves and they could cross the fence.

They learned that when they are crossing other places they have to take care. Also they learned they have to wear shoes instead of sandal. Their grandpa told them that he don’t need more lunch because he was going to take of it. Rene said that this experience leaves them with some panic at cows and if he saw cows he feels that is going to happen again the same thing. All this happen when he was child and during ten years he was afraid of cows. I think if I were in the same situation I was going to be on panic too and I think I don’t know how the animals can react against me. I would be terrify and I would never take the lunch to my grandpa, specially if there is a long way and I don’t know what kind of animals are on the way.

Bye-Bye to Freedom

This story is about a girl that was living with her grandmother. Nadia grow up with her grandmother because her mother works all the day and every day to give Nadia everything she need. Nadia was quiet and shy. Well the time passed and she became a pretty girl.  Sometimes when her mother got home at night they had a little chat about the day they had. Her mother was tired and didn’t talk so much. When Nadia went to high school many guys wanted to hang out with her and be her boyfriend. So one day she decided to have a boyfriend without telling to her mother and grandmother. Her cousin Ana notice that she had a boyfriend and she told to Nadia’s mom. Nadia was in trouble.  During two months she was punished at her room without going anywhere and without going to the school.  Her grandmother didn’t wanted that Nadia has a boyfriend because the guy didn’t was a good boy for her. Nadia’s mom hit her and talks badly; so she was very sad of what was happening with her. The grandmother was very strict, and one day her grandmother took Nadia to live with her cousin Ana. So in that way she couldn’t see her boyfriend. She was far from him.

Then the guy was looking for her, and he found her. When he found her, he offered her to run away with him and she accepted. He took her to live with his family and his family was a crazy family. The mother of this guy and his sister always were fitting on the street with other people. Nadia became doing the same thing like the family of her boyfriend did. She was pregnant of a girl and after a year a boy. Nadia didn’t change her behavior when she had her family and always was fitting with other people. One day they committed a crime, they burn a girl on the house of the victim. Nadia thought that nothing was going to happen to her because the police didn’t arrest her. But when the victim talked the police was right after her and right after the family of her boyfriend. The police took them to jail. Now all of them are in prison. The attorney said that they don’t have getaway because the day that they were going to be free, a person appear on the court and show a video to the judge that they were the people who burn the girl. They were sentence to fifty years to prison, including Nadia.

Lastly, Nadia lost her family, her son and daughter, her mother, her grandmother, and her freedom. The sad thing is that she isn’t going to see her boy and girl grows up. Now she feel sorry about what she did, but for her is too late, she had to be on jail for fifty years. I don’t know how a person can change a lot, if she was totally different when she was a child.  Now her mom can’t do anything about her and she feels guilt because she was not enough time with her.

Poor Child

When children are alone they become vulnerable to the world. Many things can happen if they don’t have their parents who can take care of them.  Children become abuse and discriminated.

I knew a child who his name was Tito, he was a hard worked at the age of 12. He had to wake up very early in the morning. He planted beans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. Tito had to be the whole day in the grove. The seven day a week. At the nights when he got home, he was tired, and hungry. The people who live in the house didn’t give him food, just water. He had to wash his clothes, buy his food, even though he doesn’t have money.  They didn’t pay him any of his work and didn’t buy him clothes, shoes, and personal things. Clean the house during his free time was other work, he couldn’t rest because they get mad at him and they were yelling at him. Tito had to obey everything they tell him because their parents weren’t with him.  Moreover, Tito was accused or robbery, he saw scare of what was going on.

One day I saw him walking trough the park, he was carried his backpack. I run when I saw him because he looks sad and I wanted to know he was going to be ok. He told what had happen to him. He told me “I was like slave on that house, I work six years, and they didn’t paid me anything. They didn’t appreciate my work and wanted everything on their house and grove worked well.” Also, he said that he was under treat if was going to leave the house. Tito didn’t care about what they told him and he left the house. The sad thing was that his uncles and her grandmother were the people who were treating him bad. When I hear that I was angry because his own family didn’t care him and put him working like a slave. I recommended him with one of the persons who need people for work, while he was living in my house. After a month he receive a call from work but the offer was in his country, the offer was in the city. The manager need people who wanted to be gardener, and he was agreed with it. He moved from my house and went San Jose. Later, like in a year he was back to visit us, he was very happy and looking pretty good. The people who hired him were nice to him and pay the hours that he worked. He looks comfortable.

Furthermore, he told me “I learned the good things when people care about me. I learned that I felt miserable when I was working for nothing. My self esteem is high after many years of sadness. I had a place where to live my own things and nobody yell at me. Outside of the world when you are alone the people are rude and don’t thing about your feelings.”

My vacation

        

I went to my aunt house on my vacation. I help her with many things. One of my favorite things was take care of the horses. Although I have to do many things with them I did every day. I Feed them, clean them, and sometimes took them to the river.

First of all, I woke up at 5:00 in the morning. I prepared the food and feed the horses. There were two horses, Paloma and Café. Sometimes in the afternoon I get some horses rides on café back. I took one first and then the second one. When they have finished eaten, I took Paloma to wash her. After I took café and I did the same thing. When I was brushing café everything was nice but when I began brushing Paloma she began getting scare. So I took them to the river where they can take a long walk. That day when we were walking back home Paloma didn’t want to walk. I was scare because I saw how she was getting angry. I went to take my uncle and he brought her to the barnyard. In that afternoon I get ride on café’s  back because I had to find a veterinarian for her. The veterinarian wasn’t at her work that afternoon. So I had to go back home and talk to my uncle what we are going to do.  I couldn’t sleep that night.  I heard some noise of the horses during the whole night.  The next morning I woke up and went so see Paloma, she was restless. I took Café with me and when to find the doctor, the doctor was there and we take him with us. She said that Paloma was going to have a horse. The day ended and during the night I discoveried that Polama gave birth to a horse. It was brown, brown and little. The little horse was near of her mom and couldn’t walk. My aunt told me if I wanted to put a name to the horse and I said yes. I choose the name and the name was Tamarindo. The third day Paloma died and I was really sad because the doctor couldn’t do anything about her. The doctor couldn’t find the cause of the death of the horse. During two months I was taking care of the horse, I always when to buy milk to feed him.  I saw how he began walking and sometimes I play with him. I like to wash him and clean him when my aunt couldn’t. It was a pretty good horse and he had to survive without his mom.

Finally, I have to go back to my house. I enjoyed my vacations with y aunt and my aunt; I didn’t imagine that I would see a little horse barely born. I help them and share with them the new horse but I was sad because with the new born Paloma died. I didn’t want she died but the doctor couldn’t help her so much.