Paulina Sánchez

When I was 12 years old, I went to Chile and Argentina with the school basketball team to a championship, I wasn’t the best player so this trip was like vacations for me. All of us stayed at the local players houses, so it was an unexpected experience because we did not know anything about the family. When we were there the  family picked me  up and we took a cab, and when we were going to the house in the cab the Mrs. started to talk about the house and she said that it was so big, and that they have a beautiful view so my imagination started to fly, but then when the cab were driving, I saw to my area, and I realized that it was not a fancy or a normal neighborhood, any way when we arrived to the house, the house were made  of wood they did not have ceramic tile on the floor, but it was truth that  they had a beautiful view,  the bathroom didn’t have a shower so I cleaned myself with a water  bucket. They also have a lot of dogs.  one day when I was at the bathroom cleaning myself, I saw a lot of bites in all my body and they were ugly! I did not say anything, so I got dressed,  and I went to the coliseum. When I  was arriving  to the coliseum, two girls of the team ran to the teacher, and started to cry so  I ran to them,  while I was running, I heard  that they also have a lot of ugly bites, and that the bites was for the fleas, so when I was hearing that, I also talked about my bites. It was so sad, because the girl of the house was the only daughter and she got closed to me so much, and the teacher didn’t want that I stayed In her house anymore, so I have to left them and I moved out with another family. Their house were small they were three persons and they slept in one room, in one bed because in the other  bed one friend and I slept there. they had a big patio, the bathroom were in the patio, they also have a kitchen, but actually I didn’t remember well all the distributing of the  house any way. Another anecdote that I have of that trip is that in the last day in Argentina, when we were saying good bye to all the people that we met there, the teacher realized that she forgot where were she had the passports of all of us, so we were really anxious and worry because we could not left the country without  the passport, and also because we were going to lost the plain. After 15 mint more or less of looking the passport for everywhere, the teacher remained that she forgot them in the room of the hotel  under the pillow in the bed. They went immediately to the hotel and while they were going to the hotel all the team stayed with the local team taking some pic and  exchange the uniform, number phones, and bracelet, and all kind of things like that. Finally they came back and we went for the plane.