Chel Duran
A sweet and delicious experience

In my family my mom is the person that likes to combine things, food, flavors, and we are so happy when she invents to do something new.

There isn’t a special date for that she makes us the food that we like the most… is a dessert, a delicious dessert, when that happens all of us enjoy each procedure step until she ends and show us how the dessert is this time.

This is Cookies dessert, is a delicious combination of lemons, milk, milk cream and condensed milk (the tree milks), I like to help her when she begins to do it because is too easy and funny.
First you have to mix the condensed milk, the milk cream and the five lemons, and then you have to moisten the cookies with the milk.
After this you have to make layers with cookies and the mixture you did before, you have to do the same until end it.
Finally you have to decorate like you want, with cookies, lemon, strawberries and take it to the refrigerator.
And the best step in that you can enjoy it with your family or friends.


Another of the food that my mom does is a cake in that the ingredients are: butter, wheat flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence, baking powder and raisins.

This cake isn’t difficult, here is the procedure: First you mix the butter with the sugar until you have a soft cream. Then you add the flour and the eggs gradually until they get mix, in that moment you add the raisins, the vanilla essence, then you put it in the refractory and you take it to the oven, you have to bake for 45 minutes and then is ready to eat.

Chel Duran
The most unforgettable memories

The family is the most important place, where we can live the best experiences, do the most exciting pranks with our cousins, siblings, aunts and uncles ever with our parents and grandparents, all of these we can enjoy in our childhood and they are the happiest memories that we remember all our life.

Each generation live different experiences and moments, all depends of the way of life. For example, my father's parents lived in a small town in Santander, it is Galan. They both had six children, all were boys.
My grandparents had a farm there, so my uncles and my father helped their parents to take care of it.
They had a routine: In the morning they used to go to school, after that they used to work in the farm and then they played in a court that was in the town. Also they grew up with a lot of myths, the same with my grandparents lived.

That was the most excited and incredible experiences, because like in all of the towns, in this, the strange stories couldn't leave. Because of them my grandparents and their children were afraid, but at the same time they enjoyed to make jokes to the other people that lived in that place, also they were victims of some of them.


About my mother's parents, the story is so similar, but the difference was in that they had more girls than boys, for that they were so jealous with them, specially my grandfather, he didn't let them have a lot of friends, so they used to try to get my mother and her sisters to stay the biggest part of their free time with them (my grandparents).

But my uncles were so disobedient, because they used to escape from my grandparents to go to the town's parties and enjoyed them with girls, for that my grandfather had to be so pending of his children, they were too naughty.

As now my parents and their siblings used to play a lot, but they did it with my grandparents, when they tell me about that storie, this is the funniest part, because they used to do it in the farm and when they played to "the hidden", the best hiding was a tree, a very big tree but the problem was that when they got down of it, the used to have a lot of scrapes in their skin.

These are ones of a lot of stories that my parents and my grandmother have tell me to laugh a long time, but they always finish making me do the chores, thing that I was avoiding with all the questions.







Chel Duran
My Best Vacations

One of the best experiences I’ve ever had was the trip that I did 3 years ago, when I was 11 years old.
I visited a lot of cities in Colombia and one of them was Bogota, I was so happy because that was the first time I went there.
I did this tr
ip with my family; it was really fantastic because I traveled to Bucaramanga, Bogota and Villavicencio. I knew a lot of places, I passed the best time, I really enjoyed each time there.
I don’t know if is because I’m here from Barranquilla, or because of the customs, but I think that the food here is much more delicious than there, I have to recognize that they have a beautiful ambient culture and the landscapes there, are as beautiful as here. The people are incredible and the attention, too.
When I was in Bucaramanga I got a lot fun with my cousins and my sister, we went to the amusements parks, shopping centers, pools, etcetera. I have to accept that this experience in “Bucara” was really
one of the funniest of this trip.
Two weeks after that, I traveled to Bogota just with my parents and my sister, it was incredibly fabulous, we went to the best amusement parks there, we visited Montserrat, we use the cablecar and the funicular, and I couldn’t believe it, because I had never done that.
We obviously walked on the Bolivar's square, we went to the Gold museum and we visited much more wonderful places, but one week after that we went to Villavicencio.
This experience was a lot more stupendous, because we had to pass for 3
or 4 tunnels, and we saw the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen, I just think that this is an unbelievable place, we spend 2 days there but it was enough to know this city.
The trip was becoming more and more interesting, we returned to our region, but not exactly in Barranquilla, we went to Santa Marta with some cousins and uncles, that was really phenomenal, we enjoy the beach, the pool, and we stayed there just two nights, but we passed both of them in the beach, it was funny. I guess the later in the beach, the better we pass.
After those two nights, we went to Cartagena and we stayed there the same ti
me, but it was more interesting because we went to the Rosario’s Islands, we knew more and more wondrous places, and when we went to the aquarium, it was becoming more and more exciting, because I had the opportunity to know numerous species of animal and tropical fish that I had never seen before.
Then I returned to Barranquilla with the biggest smile I’ve ever had, because I had the best Vacation of all my life, because I lived the most excited experiences with the people I love.
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I've always wanted to...

I'm a dreamer person, because there are some things that I've always wanted to do, but I haven't had the opportunity of live those experiences or moments, so I'm always trying to reach them or simply close my eyes for a moment and think in them.

I've always wanted to travel to Europe; I think that is a beautiful, interesting and exciting continent, for its countries, cities and culture, like France- Paris, Italy-Roma, and more places that for me are absolutely awesome.

I like Paris a lot, it's an inspirational city, so I've always wanted to travel there, I like its French language, is totally amazing, so I've always wanted to learn it, for that I'm waiting to finish my English studies and begining my French studies.

I've always wanted to learn how to cook well, I like that, I think that is interesting to know how to make a lunch for a lot of people. It'll be amazing that the other people can tell you "You're a good chef". It will be a nice experience, if I learn it in Italy.

But obviously for all of this I have to travel by airplane, I've always wanted to do it, I had once the opportunity, but when I called to the airport there weren't tickets for me, so I had to travel by car. For that I think, it will be absolutely fantastic if I'll travel by airplane to another continent like Europe.

I think that in all of this crossing will be so fantastic to buy a lot of things like souvenirs of each part that I could visit.

I'm always buying different and strange things in all the places that I've traveled. So, I've always wanted to buy some souvenirs in another country different to Colombia.
It will be extremely awesome if all of this dreams can become the reality, I trust in that, so I'm working and waiting to reach all of them.

Chel Duran

My Best Friend, Unique in the world!


My Best Friend is Any, she's so crazy, obviously she's a fun person. I like her personality because she's completely outgoing, she has a great sense of humor. The most thing that I like of her is that she is always with a beautiful smile in her face and she is so generous and honest, too. She doesn't like the lies because she thinks that they don't have anything good and she says that after a lie there is always a problem, and I'm agree with her.
For that I think that somebody and me can rely on her, she is always available for anyone.

She is extremely creative; she likes to combine colors, clothes, and to do new things every day.But I have to say that she's not organized at all, she's so easygoing, and she likes math and the languages a lot, so is really intelligent.

I met her in the school since I was 6 years old (She's younger than me for one year), but we became Best Friends two years ago, and since that moment we enjoy each moment together, in the school we're always laughing or when she goes to my house, that is almost always after school, we do the homework together and make the dinner, too... That's the funniest part!

We like to make jokes to another people in the school or outside, is so funny and at the end we all ended laughing.
Each moment is so important for us, because is like to live beautiful and excited experiences with a person that you know a lot.

I think that the most common things that we have are that we like learn to more things everyday, stay with a smile in our faces or simply that we are reliable, so is easier to be Best Friends, because that, to be tolerant and completely honest are the base of a good friendship for me.

For all of this and some things more we think that our friendship is totally awesome, so I trust that we're going to be Best Friends for a long time, and I'm totally sure that this friendship will be forever!