Monday, July 11, 2011

A House to a Restaurant

Every weekend I spent my time in the hose of Antigua. I had a great time, there been parties, family reunions and more.
The place is very big there are three houses in the same place one is the main one that it is the biggest one, when you enter the house its smells like old wood, the colors are worm like fall. The whole house has dark wood, except the kitchen, the kitchen is old school and quit big. The decoration has really old thing specially made wood . The stairs are old made of dark wood in a form of the big stairs you seen on TV that you can sit on them and slide down in a circle, and in the night you can hear the steers cracking when someone is coming, just like a haunted house. You can feel very cozy and warm. Sean’s my grandma died know there renting the place some doctors that come to Guatemala to help people and there project is call Faith and Practice my uncle Joseph works  whit them. The place is just the same as always.
 The other house  my grandpa built it, in that house is rely nice the rooms are in the right side and the left is a big living room where theirs a mark of cat paws in the second house that nobody knows the cat and nobody sow the cat before.  There’s a big fireplace made of brick.  Every time I spent there at night we use the fireplace to rust the marshmallows, man that was good what I do with them I rust them until the outer part gets black, and I pull the black skin and the inside is warm and gooey. Sometimes we spend Christmas in Antigua instead of the states. The second floor my cousins and my brothers we love to go up and touch everything in their specially my grandpa's national geographic magazine, he had a big collection. They were organize by year and month, you can see the big shelf and all of them just like a library.
 The last house is the smallest one, but I have a blast playing video games like Mario party in the 64. We had to dogs on a Labrador and a German shaper.
 One day in the backyard we put up a tent it is big I steel have it, sow back to the day my cousins and my brothers we were happy that my uncle but us the tent. We went in and took our shoes and got out side and I was the last one and I took my shoes and went out. In twenty minute we came back and in less than thirty second everyone went back outside, and my cousin Joey said to me "your shoes stink!" he was right my shoes stink, and we didn't went back in. Steel today they bother me specially my uncle Joseph always remembers me about the smelly shoes.
We use to skate on the rocks, (I know it’s weird but we had good moments with it) or a nice surface were we can actually slide. Also we had swing set, but in a few years we had to take them down.
 In the backyard we had a big lemon tree and we always took the lemons and make lemonade what's better than fresh lemonade. The backyard its part rock like the rode in Antigua and around it the three houses and lots of colorful trees, grass next to them, but there's a problem with the dogs they destroyed the grass and my uncle had to keep an eye on them and the grass to.
The way that the houses are the small one is on the left side in the right the house that my grandpa built and un the middle in the back the main house, so there’s a big space between each other.
  Know everything had change, but in a good way. The place is a restaurant call Quezos y Vinos, the last time I went there they were changing the two houses the smallest and the one that my grandpa built. Were we use to park the cars know it's a huge white stove where you can cook the pizzas. The both houses are steel from my family but the restaurant rents it. That's the last time I went were they only were fixing everything.
 I never have been in the restaurant to eat, and when I am in Antigua I always ask to eat there and we don't go. I talk with my friends about the restaurant and they told me that it is good and very nice, I’m happy to her that from my friends it makes me feel that the place is steel good. The weekends that I stead there were part of my childhood, and I will always remember everything. 


1 comment:

  1. Krista:

    What an interesting story! Believe it or not, aside from el Tenedor del Cerro, Quesos y vinos is my boyfriend's favorite place to eat in Antigua. Oddly, I haven't yet been there, but my boyfriend has good taste, so I think the restaurant and your grandfather's houses are in good hands.

    I also think this piece of writing is starting to get at a bigger idea, of what is public and what is private. This story blends the idea of a private, family life, and morphs into the idea of a public, family place. Knowing there is such a personal story behind a structure is not only interesting, but and interesting psychology to think about.

    You might think about expanding this piece of writing into a larger piece. You could investigate what the restaurant means to you and to the public after you eventually visit it. Just a thought..

    That said, as usual, take a look at grammar. If you'd like me to help edit, I'm always happy to--just make sure you e-mail the post to me by Friday so I have plenty of time to look at it and make comments.

    Keep up the great work, my dear!

    Best,
    Miss K

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