The worst arrival ever My aunt and cousins were so excited to tell us that they are spending their spring break in Colombia. I was jealous. I have traveled all around the world but I haven’t gone to South America and visit the country where I am from. It has always been a dream of mine to visit Colombia. I mentioned it to my mom and she shared the same dream. The next week my mom comes to tell me that we will be going to Colombia. I was so happy nothing could ruin my excitement. She tells me the date. It was after my spring break. My smile turned into a frown. That would mean that I would be missing days of school. I have never missed a single day of school in my life. When I was sick, got into an accident twice and even when my mom …show more content…
tried bribing me to take a day off I would still show up. I confirmed it with all my teachers and they allowed me to go. My excitement started again. March 27th couldn’t any faster for me. My mother and I studied their culture, sayings and even the house we were going to stay at. Our passports were renewed and we were counting down the days. Then we get a call from my grandpa and he said I have a surprise for you. We had no clue. He told us that he was meeting us in Colombia. He said its rare to see all his grandkids in one place and this was the time. It meant a lot to me because he is a missionary in Paris, France with my grandma. Nothing can make this trip any better. I had a lot of things going on in my mind. I was thinking about my human video practice. Were they going to get things done and finish? I didn’t have my prom dress. I left Mitchell by himself for a week in the process of planning our prom. I had a lot of things in my mind but I knew nothing could ruin this vacation. We finally reached the day of my vacation. My family already left to Colombia. My mom and uncle in law were communicating through the “what’s up” app. Since we were staying with his family we had to tell them when to pick us up. As we got on the plane we couldn’t wait. The flight wasn’t long at all. It was 3 hours! We got off the plane and were so excited. We imagined that all our family would be outside with a sign and balloons. When we got off the plane we had to go through immigration/customs. The security guard took our passports and asked a lot of questions. He first asked us “why did we come to Colombia?” We told him that we are on vacation to visit family and the country. He said where are you going? We told him to my Uncle in laws house. He asked for the address and we didn’t know. He asked for a phone number and all we could reply is we have his what’s up name. We couldn’t even provide him the information to the house. My mom and I were devastated.
We were there for an hour. About to cry. There wasn’t any Wi-Fi where we were. We couldn’t even contact my uncle in law to get any information. The security guard asked us “You are two American girls coming to a country known for drugs, prostitution and abduction without any information to where you were going” we both looked and couldn’t respond. The guard finally let us through. We got our bags and headed to the pick up area. Finally breathing the air of Colombia. The arriving flights are definitely different from Orlando’s arriving flights. We walk out to see a herd of people with balloons and signs welcoming their family back. My mom and I couldn’t find our family. It has been an hour since we landed. We were stuck at immigration. How can they not be here we asked ourselves. The arriving area didn’t even have Wi-Fi so we couldn’t get in contact with my family. We stood by a pole together. We already look like we are from America. Minutes passed. A taxi driver stood by our side and asked us if we needed a taxi or to borrow his phone. We couldn’t borrow his phone because we didn’t know anything. We both came up with a system. My mom didn’t want to leave me alone with the taxi guy and our big suitcases so I would walk down the
path to see if my family was there. 2 hours passed us eventually. We both had bags under our eyes from how tired we were. My hair began to frizz due to their humidity at night. We thought of multiple things. Maybe the name Mosquera is a common name. One of our ideas was to put our phone off airplane mode to see maybe we could contact them in any way. I had an IPhone 6 my mom didn’t want to jeopardize that phone getting stolen. We used her phone. We took it off airplane mode. The moment we took it off everything started to ring. It was so much that we turned it off as soon as we could. Then we thought we were so desperate that we now have a huge bill due to using service over international waters. Finally we reached our final plan. If they didn’t show up in 10 minutes we were going to go with the taxi guy that has stood with us for the past 3 and a half hours. We would go in his taxi to a hotel that had Wi-Fi and in the morning we would figure out how to meet with them. As soon as we put our luggages in to the cab, I see my aunt running to me with her arms wide open. She screams “Bienvenido a Colombia”. With anger on our faces we couldn’t even describe to them how our night was. It was worth it when they took us to the top mountain to see the whole view of Cali, Colombia. Being stranded in a drug known country was the most memorable moment of my life.
As my father and I finally fit the statue of the little Virgin Mary in the back of the car, it was time to get on the road. I could already taste the guavas from my great grandfather’s ranch. Feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin. The smell of my aunt’s cooking. Hearing the excitement of my great grandmother’s voice. I wanted to be there already, be in the beautiful country of Mexico. My thoughts wandered as we left my house. How much welcome, love, and the sadness of leaving was going to happen. It was too soon to find out.
Before, I could even take note, it was already October. It was time for me to pack everything in my room, and say my final goodbyes to my family members. I was going to leave everything that meant a lot to me behind. Previously, before October, we picked up my dad from the airport so that he could help us load all of our belongings to the U-Haul truck. Lily, ‘my cousin’, (we aren’t related, she is just a very close friend who I consider family) was staying with use because she want to see her father, who was also living in Denver. My mom and dad, sister, uncle, cousin, and I all stayed at the house one last night. I remember that my sister said that all her friends gathered around my mom’s car to wave goodbye to her. Her closest friends got very emotional and they started to cry. Not only did the move affect me, it also affected my sister greatly. It was like someone had given her a punch in the stomach. By the next day, we had everything in the U-Haul truck, and it was time for me to leave my precious Vegas behind. We had now started the drive to
I woke up Tuesday morning excited for the day I was going to spend with my mom. I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking fresh coffee listening to my mom and aunt tease and joke around about how paranoid my mom was about doing well in her classes, my aunt was telling her that maybe now that I was there, she would relax a little bit and have some fun. Our plan was to go to one of mom's classes with her, and then on a tour of UNC and then we were going to go to dinner and a movie.
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