In
My Aunt’s Guayaba Orchard
When I was a girl I wasn’t at home a lot. I spent my time in my aunt’s guayaba orchard
that was almost in front of my home. My aunt always let us
play there because we would help her by climbing up the big trees,
cutting the guayabas, and filling the baskets with them. There were many, many
guayaba and nut trees there.
When we finished filling the baskets we would play in the
tree branches, and we pretended to be tight-rope walkers. One time I was trying
to tight –rope walk on a branch of a great guayaba tree,
and I fell. I landed on my stomach, and I stayed there spread out on the ground for a
good while until my stomach pain went away.
When we finished playing my aunt would
give a basket of guayabas to each one of us to take home. Then we’d always help
my Mom to make guayaba conserves. And to this day I still to love to eat
guayaba candies!
Cuando yo era nina,
no asistia en la casa todo el tiempo. Nos la pasabamos en la huerta
de guayabas, estaba casi enfrente de mi casa.
Mi tia
siempre nos dejaba jugar alli porque le ayadabamos a cortar las guayabas y a
llenar las canastas. Eran muchos, muchos guayabos y arboles de nueces alli.
Cuando terminabamos
de llenar las canastas jugabamos en las ramas de los guayabos y haciamos
marometas. Una vez me cai de la rama haciendo
marometas. Cai de puro estomago y alli me quede tirada
por buen rato, hasta que se me paso el dolor de estomago.
Cuando terminamos de jugar mi tia nos daba una canasa de guayabas a cada una para llecarla
a la casa. Siempre aydabamos a mi mama hacer conserva de
guayaba. Y hasta la fecha a mi me sigue gustando el
dulce de guayaba.
Josefina Torres
27
de abril, 2005