The Happiest Stage Of My Life Essay

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We used to live with my parents in the central city of my country Guatemala. My dad 's family lived in a village near the sea, which was one hour away from the city. My family was quite large because my father had seven brothers, plus all my cousins and nephews. When holidays or weekends, we usually drove with my parents and siblings to visit my dad siblings on the beach. I enjoyed my childhood, and I believe it was the happiest stage in my life because I was always playing and learning. With my cousins, we spent long hours swimming in the sea or playing in the pool. My family liked to cook seafood, and once I got sick from eating it. It was terrible since I was vomiting and with severe pain in the stomach, it was horrible, I never ate seafood again after that incident. …show more content…

For the birthday of the brother of my dad, in his celebration, he said that he wanted for his funeral that everyone eats seafood in his honor. Since he could eat fish, lobsters and shrimp every day of the week. He was a fisherman and used to fish every day perhaps that’s why he loved to eat it all the time. However, seven years after he said what he wanted for his funeral he passed away, and all his siblings still remembered which had been his desire, and they were thinking in preparing everything to honor him. Indeed, once I learned how to resolve an aspect of the food issue with family pressure was when I was confronted about to eat seafood, experienced embarrassment and anxiety from them, decided that I did not want to eat seafood even if it was to honor my

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