A New Life

Bye Mila

“It will be alright”, “I remember my tio - uncle saying it one day.” While we were rafting in the Guru River it was surrounded by green trees, with red apples, and with clear water. The sound of the river going so fast, the water hitting the rocks, making the splashing sound. Mila was distracted hugging auntie and then I screamed” “A rock!” “Una roca!” auntie said Mila pushed with her strong arms and pushed the boat towards an empty space that there were no rocks “Whew we are are safe”, Mila said, “let's go back home,” tia-aunt said.

“I have to leave guys” “I’ll be back in a few years,” tio said that today and when I saw Mila tears went down her face. Everyone's face was up and now her chin went down and her eyes were filled with water it looked like there was a lake in her eyes. When he got to the ship he sat down and wiped his tears and said goodbye and in a few days, he was in Brazil. And tia was so worried and then I said “Tia it is going to be all right he is going to find a job and you can live there. After that, we went to tio’s house and then tia’s cried of sadness “He is gone!” her chin went down, her eyes closed filled with sadness “I will miss him!” said tia whispering. Then she went to Abuelo - Grandpa and said “ And after it is our turn to go and we are going to miss you” “Me too!” Abuelo said.

“We stayed for some time. After a while, tia said,” “ we have to go back home to prepare our suitcases full of clothes to go to the boat this night and we need to take some food!”. “We went back home and prepared everything to go.”

“When they were walking away, to go to the boat, Mila waved me goodbye and said” “ I am going to miss you!” “Mila stopped and said” “let's be thankful that we are leaving Spain and have all our memories of Spain in our minds” “she stopped and then I saw one tear going down her face then she nealed down and started” “ May we be grateful of what we have, that papa is doing this for us, we are going to be ready to have a new life! In Brazil and we are going to enjoy it!” “you are totally right we will enjoy it!” “said tia then they got close to the boat and then looked back and waved at me” “bye” shouted Mila “we will miss you!” “Adiós - bye !”.

My prima

Then they got on the ship and went”. “My Tears went down my face.” “They had lots of fun on the ship but the one who was the saddest was Mila she had lived there for 11 years and she did not notice, tia, came and said” “sadness flies away like the time that means that by some time your sadness will be still there deep inside but you still can't feel it, and trust me you will like new things,”.

“After 2 weeks and one day, they got to Brazil.”
“They noticed that uncle had bought a house and then they went to the house and they noticed the house was empty, and tia was surprised when he got back home and then said: “Hello I missed you guys so much!” “the beds are coming in a while” “you bought a beds! Thank you so much” “ exclamed Mila while hugging tio, then they heard a knock on the door and it was the man of the beds then he said something in Portuguese, he was talking to my uncle and then he said” sim meaning yes “why is the bed so big?” , Mila asked “It is a bunk bed,”, “ tio whispered then tio said” “ I have a surprise for you!” “then he took out 4 big boxes and guess what was inside? A full box of chocolate!” “Toma - take this is a full box of chocolate each one of you all,” said tio. “Now let's prepare for school tomorrow!” “said tia they to sleep uncle put then a white blanket on top of the cushion and then they went to sleep”.

“The next day they went to eat breakfast and then tia said” “Don't cry papa is doing everything for us and we need to be grateful” “they grabbed their lunch and went to school.” “When they got to school the kids were looking at then weirdy and they were saying” “ they don't have uniforms they don't belong here!”. “When Mila got to her classroom she meets a girl called Marcia.She taught her all the places in the school and then they became very good friends.”

“This is where we eat lunch,” “said Maria at lunchtime, they sat together and when Mila opened her lunch Marcia was like” “what lunch is that! May I try some?” “yeah sure, this is Chorizo it is like a type of meat, and this is Patatas Brabas it tastes like french fries, I think you will like them they are so nice!” “Umm! This is so delicious!”.

Slices of Chorizo

Patatas Brabas

After a few weeks …
“Mila was still not wearing the uniform,” “One day when Mila came back home untie said “ give me all your white t-shirts to sew them in the school uniform by hands” “After that they had dinner and what they had for dinner was Paella it is a Spanish dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc.” “Then they went to sleep.” “The next day Marcia was surprised to see Mila with her uniform and she was surprised to see Mila speaking Portuguese” “wow you have learned Portuguese after all!” “yeah and it is really cool I really like it,” “said Mila in Portuguese then Marcia said something in Portuguese and Mila said “sim” meaning yeah!.”

A few years later ...
One day tio wanted to go back home in Spain to see Abuelo and his primos, then Mila said she could take him to Spain and go with him. A few days later it was time to go Mila packed her stuff to go and went with her father.

After 5 weeks and one day …
They were back home and it was tio’s best moment of his life to see his familia - family again and it was Mila’s best moment too! She was smiling with joy and hugged me, tears went down her face and she was as happy as I was to see her back!.

After that, they had to leave to go to Brazil again when they came back Mila said “ Everybody I have to confess something” she stopped tears down her face “sniff, This is a new life!”

Afterward
Mila was my grandmom and her name was Milagros but I just wanted to name her Mila because it is the beginning of her name, but Mila was a character I created. Valentina was the one telling the story, Valentina is a character that I created to tell the story, Valentina is Mila’s cousin in the story. Later in the really deep end, my grandmom comes to a very beautiful place and that is where she decides to marry my grandfather. I put some Spanish and Portuguese words because they were in two different countries so I put the words that I knew.

The end

My Grandmother and Grandfather