“What should I do today since it’s the weekend? Hmmm watch YouTube, play video games or, just hang out?” I asked myself.
Hi I’m Amanda and I like video games as you can probably guess. I’m also from Spain (actually my dad is). I love my parents too.
“Oh yea I need lunch. I’ll ask mom,” I giggled.
“ Mooooom lunch time!” I yawned as I was walking to the office where she was working
“In a second ” mom told me as I was walking back to my room. I realized I had over do homework so I obviously did it. I was bored again so I thought about a bunch of things until I decided on trying to learn Spanish, but I didn’t know how. I want to learn Spanish because I want to go to Spain and be able to talk to others
“Lunch is ready” mom yelled from the kitchen. I bounced up off my bed and ran down stairs like a crazy woman. When I got to the kitchen I started to eat right away, I was soooooo hungry. Nommmmmm Nommmmmm Nommmmmmmm I stopped eating for a sec and calmed down.
“Mom can you teach me Spanish” I begged with the hope of getting a good answer.
“Sorry sweetie but I don’t know Spanish” Mom sighed as she cleared my empty plate. My heart sank, I didn’t know what to do. I walked back up stairs with my hands together while looking down at the ground. When I got to my room I sat on my bed and I took a deep breath and calmed down . I looked down at my bed as if it were a boat and I was drifting away in the water. Then I had an idea what if I call dad, maybe he can teach me.
“MOM CAN I HAVE YOUR PHONE FOR A SEC” I yelled from across the hall.
“Amanda calm down I’ll give you my phone” mom said angrily. After she gave me the phone I called dad. Ring ring ring ring ring a ding ding, he didn’t answer. He probably was doing work or something because he is on a business trip. I left him a message.the message said: hey dad I want to learn Spanish hope you come back soon. I listen to music because it’s not iPad hour. IPad hour is an hour of iPad. I get that at three-O’clock and right now it’s two-thirty. I kept the phone nearby to wait for a message and got the message at two-fifty three. I couldn’t believe what he had sent back, it felt like a shot and I couldn’t do anything about it. The message that dad sent said: sorry sweetie the trip sadly got extended three days. The trip got extended because he had two conference meetings and some more work that he had to do up there.
“ three more days at work, three more days at work, three more days at work” I whispered as I couldn’t move.when i was a little calmer i wrote in my journal, WORST DAY OF MY LIFE, in all capitals. That night I had a nightmare that my dad never came back from work I was shivering in fear
“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek” I said quietly. I was holding my hands together
“Mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom” I yelled excitedly as it had been two days.
“Dads coming back tomorrow I know,” mom said before me. I still wanted to learn Spanish so I thought about many ways to learn…….
“Hahahahahahahahaha” I laughed kinda creepily. I felt so stupid, I could watch videos on learning Spanish. All the videos helped it was so fun. The first video was called “step by step Spanish”and it taught me the English word then in Spanish.ex Hi = Hola and Dad = Papa, the other video(s) told me the alphabet and some everyday sentences.
“Mom i did it” I said excitedly
“Great job” mom said.
I saw my bed in front of me and I flopped down on it. I was sooo sleepy. Finally my dad came back.
“Daddy guess what” I whispered.
“What is it I really want to know” my dad asked
“I can speak Spanish”
“Great job” dad replied. From then on I spoke Spanish all the time with my dad an I was extremely happy.