Two Really Admirable Girls
By Constantino Rios
ESL 1300
I will never forget the morning of December 29th of 1997. My mother and I were at the beach house in Santa Marta, Colombia when we received a phone call. I answered it and the person in the other side of the line just said to me, "Hi Uncle Kostas, how you doing?" I got really confused with my brother's voice. I just could not believe what my ears heard, my first niece was born. Immediately, we ran to the city of Barranquilla where all my family is from to visit the new member of the clan.
The second time was funny also. Two years later, my brother called again at three in the morning, he was excited talking with my mother and saying that his wife was in the surgery room. Again, all my family ran to the hospital. It was something crazy. Everybody were wearing all kinds of pajamas and waiting very impatient for the doctor to know the news. When the doctor left the surgery room, everybody looked at him with big and haggard eyes. A deep silence surrounded the room waiting just for three words. It was like a slow motion movie. He said "It's a girl." Everybody started celebrating, screaming and crying for the new member of the family.
Today the new members of the family are running everywhere and all the time screaming, playing and joking, talking about boys and fashion, learning how to use make up, wearing adult's clothes and pressuring their parents to go out to the malls, to the movies, or to the circus.
Laura is six years old and Andrea is four years old; my two pretty girls that are always in my heart and in my mind. They are beautiful, with olive skin, curly hair, pink lips and extremely expressive dark eyes, and a funny walk. Two very sweet girls who make everybody that is around them happy.
They are my nieces. I have been watching the way that they are growing up. I will never forget all the games that we used to play, such as the Crazy Hammock Roller Coaster or the Hammock Ship and the Shark (me). What about the trips to the pool, to the circus, to the ice-cream parlor and the seaside? These ones were their favorite. Also, when they used to call me "daddy Tino", and when my brother got mad because they listened to me and did not obey him. They are very special to me; all those memories will always be at the bottom of my heart.
I have been here in the United States a whole year, and I miss them a lot. I used to talk with my nieces every weekend and they always tell me how they are doing at school, and everything that is happening over there; especially Laura, the older one. Every time that we talk she says that she is attending English classes because she wants to be like her uncle. That makes me proud and motivates me to continue with my goals. I cannot wait to go back to my country to see them. My two crazy little girls are very important to me. Those two girls are the next generation of our family. All the members of the family love them because they are offering us a really innocent, unselfish and true love. They are included in all the expectations for my future. I am trying to give them the best of myself and I know I will do it.