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.