The talk made me remember about my grandparents. On my dad's side, cuz i never really knew my grandparents from my mother's side. It brings me back a lot of memories when I was younger. I remember the times when:
- My grandpa would take me to the park all the time. we called it "ye-ye's park" (i also had "papi's park"). there was this very little cement hill i ALWAYS had to go to. i'd climb up and when i do i sing and swing around the pole.
- There was this little playground that was outside the park, in someone's house property. but regardless, my granda would take me on the swings there.
- My grandma told me this, and I have NO memory about this, that once I almost fell to the ground, but my grandpa put his hands around my head just in time to protect my head from hitting the ground. my grandpa got scratched.
- My grandma used to have a lot of food in the fridge, and when i came over, i would let her know which food i liked, and she would save it for each time i came over.
- My grandparents used to have a lot of colourful chicks on the backyard. I played with them a lot. Walking to the backyard was like walking to a whole new world for me, because the backyard had a lot of bamboo sticks, trees with flowers, rocks, and there was this magical trail where i can find the big turtle. there were also like three tanks of fish i remember liking to scoop them.
- My grandma gave me this a couple years ago, she handed me a piece of paper in which I probably made my first drawing ever. and she kept it for so long. now i think i lost it somewhere....
- Going to my grandparents house and i loved to sit on my grandpa's brown chair cuz it was the softest and big arm chair.
- Collecting oranges from the orange tree outside my grandparents house. dad used the big hook to grab the best oranges, i used it to grab the smallest and closest oranges.
- The front yard was kinda scary.
- I remember hearing something about cotton trees, so i stole a little bit of cotton from my grandma's room and made a whole in the front yard and try to plant a "cotton tree"..of course, that never happened.
- At the front of the house, there was a mailbox. I used to check it every ten minutes.
- There were three rooms in the house: one i never really went to cuz it was full of stuff. my grandma's big 'blue' room where she had a lot of sewing stuff and a big picture of her when she was younger, i thought she was beautiful. then my grandpa's 'brown' room, low lit, big bed i jumped on, and i liked to use his scotch tape.
- I found a dead bird in the front yard. my grandma burried right besides the orange tree and use its decomposing matter as a fertilizer. poor birdie.
- My friend Juan Ignacio met my grandpa once when he was living in an apartment. He said my grandpa had the coolest beard ever cuz if he geled it and braided it he would look like the guy from System of a Down
- My grandpa did karaoke and study session every thursday or something. all his friends knew me but i hardly ever remembered who they were.
- My grandpa used to take me to a stationary store close to the park, but we never really bought anything. I was just fascinated with all the toys. Except that one time my grandpa bought me a set of plastic tiny farm animal figures.
- They used to have two rabbits. one was "mine" and the other was my sister's.
- In kindergarden, my teachers gave me a chick to take care of. Because I couldnt keep it at home, I left my chick at my grandparents. It didnt last long cuz apparently a neighbour's cat ate it =(
- One day my grandpa took me on those little poor trains that went around the city. It was probably the happiest day at that time.
- At the house there was a head of a deer (probably fake) on the wall. and everytime me and my grandpa went out, we had to put hats on. I had my own, i think it was either yellow or red. or both.
- There was a mirror at the door. I remember i liked to look myself at it and make silly faces. That was probably the first time i became narcissist.
- When my grandpa died, my aunt cried A LOT. I told her, "you have no reason to cry. he is now in a much better place now, quiet, white, place with angels around, and he will always be there for you". and apparently those words calmed my aunt a lot and she couldnt stop thanking me for those kind words.
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