My first day at the movies

I love going to the movies. Every opportunity I have, I go with my friends or with my

boyfriend, if I have one. I enjoy staying there seeing the huge screen, hearing the characters

talking around the whole place, and feeling the cold air while I enjoy the story. I clearly

remember my first day at the movies, I was very excited, and I could barely hide my

emotions.

Minutes before and after the movie started, I was so nervous as if it was my first school

day. I did not know which the steps to follow in order to see a movie were. So, two of my

friends did the necessary to enter the cinema such as choose the movie, check the

schedules, and buy the tickets. Because all those things were new for me, I was nervous,

and my friends said I looked worried. Then, when we finally entered the cinema, I got even

more nervous because I did not know where to go.

The experience during the development of the movie was great. When I entered the cinema

hall, I was very surprised. I have not seen such a place. It was huge! The seats were the

most comfortable seats I had sat on. The screen was enormous and the pictures were very

clear. I did not know that the lights needed to be off. As a result, I thought something

wrong happened with the lights, however, I did not care about it, and I enjoyed the movie.

Something I loved was the air conditioning; the weather outside was so hot that I was even

happier for being there.

When the movie ended, I did not know what to do. I was worried about going out the

cinema hall. Because it was the first time for me I did not know where the exit was.

Consequently, I thought my friends were going to make a joke and let me stay there.

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In order me to be lost. Fortunately, they did not, they showed me where the exit was and

we returned home. Some weeks later, when we went again, I realized that in all the movies

the lights were off. So, I said to myself “Thanks God I did not tell my friends what I

thought the fist time.”

Now, eight years later, I still remember all the details of my first day at the movies. Yet, I

do not remember the name, the movie or the characters or even the plot, but every time I go

to the cinema, I remember my fist experience there.

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My first pet Magali Viscarra Zúniga.
February 28th, 2007.

Every child wishes a pet. A little animal to take care of or just to have companionship,

some children like puppies because they are playful, other children like cats because they

are affectionate and so on. The pet a child or a person chooses depends of their personality

and liking. I particularly wished a little cat when I was a child to be my fist pet. However,

we do not always obtain what we wish. So, instead of a cute cat I got an awful bird.

At the beginning I did not want the “chocoyo” to be my pet. In my family as a typical

family we have had some pet such as dogs and cats and even chickens. However, they were

not my pets; they were my father, mother or sisters’ pets because they were the ones who

took care of them. My mother used to say “If you want a pet that means you are going to

take care of it” so, I agreed on that and she told me to wait. I relay wanted a cat and I

thought my mother was going to looked for a little cat. One day my grandmother visited us.

She bought a little bird. It was awful! It barely had fathers and it looked silly. My

grandmother said that my grandfather took it from a nest. I was upset because of the way he

got it, he just robbed it from its mother. My mother said “well, you wanted a pet. Here it is”

but I did not want that awful bird. It did not look like the cat I wanted, obviously because it

was not a cat. The bird became a burden to my mother because I did not want to take care

of it, my mother was the person in charge of giving it food, put it into a cage etc. But my

mother was too busy to look after the little animal. Consequently, sometimes she did not

remember to give it food or water. My sisters did not like it, so, the destine of the awful

bird was not something to make them not sleep. Therefore, the poor bird looked every day

messier. So, my mother said that she was going to give it away or let it go.

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Finally, I accepted the awful bird. I did not want the bird because I wanted a cat, but I felt

bad about it. I started to give it food, water etc, I even got a piece of bedspread to put over

the cage at night in order it not to get cold. One day it became sick, my mother say it was

not going to live more than two days. She advised me to give it kid aspirin dissolved on

water. I did it every meal time. I did not want it to die because I have started to love it.

Some days later it got better. I decided to get it as my pet not just as a responsibility to help

my mother. I wanted the bird to learn some words, but because as the beginning anybody

wanted it, I think it was a little old to learn a lot of words. So, it could not learn to say so

many words. I tried hard and it learned to say “perro” “perrito” “urra” and “cotorro”. Well

maybe four words are not an amazing vocabulary, but I was very proud of it. The bird just

did not want others to take care of it, it got angry when my mother or my sister tried to give

it food or just be near it. I really took care of it, I washed it, gave it food, etc. as a result, it

became a healthy and pretty bird. Eight years have passed and I still take care of it. It is

kind of difficult to do it because am not anymore a little girl with a lot of free time

anymore.

Now I am in the university, and I do not have much time. But I try to leave it enough food

and water. When I returned from the university, I spend time with it and at night I put the

same piece of bedspread over its cage. When I was a child I wanted a pet and I got it. I got

a bird as a pet and it is still my pet. I did not know that birds live so long! Hey! It is

difficult to take care of a pet eight years. Do you know how long birds live? Anyway I love

this animal.

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