The Biggest Day of the Year

by Claudia

"Get up Oly, get up!" my older brother said really exited.

"I'm sleeping go bug somebody else!" I yelled.

"Just get up" he insisted.

So I did got up, mad, because I was tired and all I wanted to do was sleep. But when I realized that it was January 6, which is like a second Christmas in Mexico and in one of Mexico's traditions this means that three kings come during the night to leave presents for the kids, I ran to the living room and there they were our presents.

There were two boxes with pictures of roller blades on the front, one had my name on it and the other one had my brother's name on it. When we opened them we found two pairs of roller blades. Mine were white with pink lines, and my brothers were black with blue.

Since we were at our grandparent's house and my younger aunt who was about 18 years old we woke her and everybody in the house up.

My aunt told us to try them on so my brother and I put our roller blades on.

"Can we do to Alex (my cousin's) house?" my brother and me asked.

"Sure," my mom and dad answered.

So our aunt tried to take us. I said tried because since it was the first time that my brother and I used roller blades we were falling down every five seconds first me, them my brother and we went that way all the way to my cousin's house, and all my annoying aunt did was laugh.

When we were roller blading my brother and my cousin were going down a street, they were telling me to go too, but I was scared because I still couldn't control the roller blades very well and I didn't wanted to fall down.

After a couple of weeks that we had started using roller blades my brother and my cousin got really good, but I kept on falling down, which really hurt.

After a couple of MONTHS I learned how to roller blade, even thought it took me a lot of time and a lot of falls, I was happy to know that all of that hard work, practices, and specially falls had been worth something.

From that day on I got good at roller blading, and I could even race with my brother and my cousin. I did fall every now and then but it was okay.