Mis Recuerdos

Recuerdo, como nina, me gustaba coleccionar conchas de mar, caracoles y corales. Todos mis tios y tias me ayudaron con mi coleccion. En ese tiempo yo tenia 7 anos. Mi abuelo, quien era pescador, sabia del coleccion, y entre el y mi tio Nicolas me traian siempre cosas muy bonitas del mar. Todos los fines de semana mi familia y yo ibamos al mar, pues nos quedaba muy cerca- unos 15 m. de mi casa. Comiamos todos juntos en la playa, mis abuelitos, tios y primos. Era muy divertido.

El recuerdo mas grande que tengo es que el dia de mi cumpleanos, mi abuelo se fue a bucear al mar. Trajo consigo una ostra y me la resalo. Esa ostra tenia una pequena perla que el mismo quito, y me dijo, “Esta es la ultima perla que saque, y es para ti.” Melissa De La O

18 de mayo, 2005

My Memories

I remember as a girl I liked to collect sea shells, snail shells, and coral. All my aunts and uncles helped me with the collection. At that time I was 7 years old. My grandfather, a fisherman, knew about the collection, and between him and my uncle Nicolas they always brought me many lovely things from the sea. Every weekend my family and I went to the ocean, well it was just15 m. from my home. We would eat together on the beach, my grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. It was fun.

My greatest memory that I have is of my birthday. My grandfather went diving in the ocean. He brought back an oyster and he opened it. That oyster had a small pearl in it that he took out, and he said to me, “This is the last pearl that I took out and its for you!”