sisters the last days of summer english patch

And after that, they would go in the summer and sometimes for Christmas. : In ‘97 Fernanda was 11 and went to visit him for the first time. : My dad left and I didn’t see him for…what, a year, 2 years. Her mom had gotten married again, and like many families, it took them some time to get used to this new dynamic. While Fernanda and her sister Andrea, who’s 4 years younger, stayed in Mexico. : Her dad went to live in the US, in Tucson, Arizona. I’m telling this seriously: they couldn’t be around each other. : The situation between my mom and dad was, well, a little tense. A few years earlier her parents had gotten divorced. Sometimes her home environment was difficult. And well, Fernanda didn’t speak much English either, but she was learning.Īnd she had a lot tell outside the day-to-day. Fernanda wanted her own space, a private space. : And it’s no accident she was writing in English. There’s a picture of a beige shirt I bought. I think I have crush on this boy, Fernando. : I wore such-and-such shoes, at 7pm I did such-and-such thing. And what Fernanda wrote in her diary was the normal, everyday stuff. She started writing in that notebook in 1999. : And since its little lock didn’t work, I said: “I’m going to write in English.” : The cover was gold and it had a little rabbit on the first page.įernanda: And I think it says “Mi diario” or “My Diary,” I don’t know if it says it in English or Spanish. Well, I haven’t grown all that much since I was 10, I’m still the same size. Well, a rectangle, you know? About the size my palm is now. Anyway.įernanda Echávarri, a journalist and friend of mine, remembers hers. I would write poems in it and lyrics to songs that I would never dare sing. Mine was a hardcover black and white notebook. Of two sisters, the distance that separates them, and the love that Today we go back to 2017, to one of our favorite episodes. ► Click here to return to the episode official page, or here to see all the episodes ► You can read “Sisters” Spanish transcript here.

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Sisters the last days of summer english patch