“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

My childhood I think is the best part of my life because it made what I am now. Everything I have learned is because of my childhood events. My mom says I was funny when I was younger because I always have been through everything.  I will share with you some of my stories when I was a child. Starting in Kindergarten, I never liked school and when I start going to kinder I always cried like there was no tomorrow. One day my mom gets to leave me and there was a little boy, a little bit fat named Stefan. He has always been a correct guy, a gentleman, so he saw me crying and this little boy tells my mom “Do not worry Miss, I will take her of your daughter”…I mean he was my age; he was taller than I because I’ve always been a petit girl.  My mom stares at him like…dude you are just five years but thank you so much. So, my sister and cousin were on first grade and third grade; and there was a secret place that connects primary to kindergarten. When they had recess they always came to visit me since I was the youngest one. One day my sister came and recess time was over and she had to leave, I start crying a lot and she had this feeling of taking me away from Kinder because she thought I was suffering in there. Then I get used to being there in Kinder and she was quiet.

One day we went on a trip to San Salvador, we rented a house on the beach. I was four or five years old and I did not know how to swim because I when it was swimming class I came there to do absolutely nothing. So we were on that house with a friend of my father, and my mom told him to take care of me because I always jumped on the swimming pool. Pichi, my father’s friend told my mom “How do you think she will jump to the swimming pool?.” He was saying this and I went directly to the swimming pool and jumped in with clothes on. He had to jump in with his clothes on, his cell phone, everything just to take me out because he did not believe my mom I had that urge to jump in the pool.

In 2006, when I was 12 years old, turning 13 that year. I went on a trip to Europe for a month and a half. I spent one week on a tour across Europe, and then one month in Wildeshausen, is a town and the capital of the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated by the river Hunte. Wildeshausen is a little town and it is beautiful, the people they all know each other. When I arrived at Wildeshausen I was shy, and I had always been a little bit clueless, when we get home I realize I had forgotten my luggage. So I had to make a call and talk to my guide teacher and tell her what had happened, and my exchange dad goes to Oldenburg to get my stuff. When i was there if have to go to school, and my schedule change a lot. I get homesick and I counted the days to come back. My exchange mom always treated me if I was her princess. One day she made me Beans, because she wanted to make me feel at home. We were a group of exchange kids and one day we decided to go to Oldenburg but we had to take a metro bus to get there and my exchange mom told me that she would pick me up at one hour I cannot remember, so I was happy, we went shopping and everything. We came back to town and I was waiting to my mother, her name was Cristina by the way. But I have not understood the hour she would pick me up, so when there was no sign of Cristina I started walking back to my house. It started to rain like a lot and I get into a shop and tell them the story so they called Cristina but she did not answer, there was a huge problem. Finally she picked me up and we get home.

At December 14th, we were at the airport of Dusseldorf, Germany and they told us that our pilot gets sick so we would not get home but two days after. We were on Madrid, Spain, for free. We went to Santiago Bernabeu’s Stadium. At December 16th, finally we arrived at Guatemala. I saw my mom and I was the happiest girl ever. I started to say hello to her, but the problem was that she did not answer for me. My own mom did not recognize me! I came back a little bit cheeked because I ate bread like every single day so…I gained weight. After I came closer she recognizes me and hugged me like she has never done before.

I think my childhood was the most exciting childhood ever. And I thanked every single story that had happened to me because it made me how am I today.