Thinking about childhood

I was very serious as a child. It's going to sound weird, but my parents tell me now that they were worried about my lack of smiles... I mean, make me laugh wasn't very easy. Once, my aunt Marisol told me: "You don't smile because you don't want to get wrinkled?". When I was eight, I went to a party with some cousins and an aunt, we were sat around a table and in front of my view, there was a few years older boy -like an adolescent-. He started to stare at my eyes. Don't get confused, it wasn't love at first sight. Actually, he wanted to play "Make the other get uncomfortable". Bad idea, he didn't know that quiet silent type girl wouldn't stop staring at his eyes until he got bored. But finally he wasn't bored, he was embarrassed. At that time, I didn't realize of "the power of the seriousness", so in some way I had to learn to smile more and stop having an expressionless face with people. I think I noticed it isn’t very kind.
In general, my childhood was good. I have a one year older brother and when we were children we played together a lot, he was the “master mind” for the games. Because of my father’s work, we lived in seven places of Chile. I lived most part of my life in the ninth region. My family and I went regularly to the volcanoes and natural places. When it was winter, sometimes Curacautín -the city where I lived between six and nine- had a layer of snow that didn’t let me move many steps out of my house. In fact, now my mother laughs about once she sent me to buy some food for lunch and I was crying with my plastic boots in the snow, because I couldn’t walk. In that city, we adopted my beautiful dog. Her name is Perra and she gives happiness to all of us.
These are the words for today.

"Say bye to the rhea, son"

I saw so many colors, forms, figures, expressions... It really looked like a dream seeing all those beautiful creatures alive in front of us and thinking that many more are unknown for me. But actually it was some kind of circus with many stressed animals and the memory of current development of dirty ways to satisfy the highly overestimated human species. The thing is, with a friend, I went for my first time to the Zoo and I was amazed by the strange gentleness of the Nature force or whatever that created all this. Every behavior was significant. An elephant was eating straw -and he seemed very bored-; a few birds were searching for an escape trying to cut the wires of the cage; near to us, the peaceful peacock was walking through the wood footbridge; the white male swan was majestic and he showed his appearance like he knew it’s stunning; the camel had A LOT of slobber in his mouth, and also had an odd disposition of his limbs and great part of his hair on his chest; kangaroos have strong long legs, it was curious that the joey had his head in his sister’s pouch; a giraffe enjoyed licking the people’s hands, my friend’s hand above all; the Bengal tiger and the white tiger were impatient, it has to be hard to be in a place with a few square meters in comparison with the large territories in their native country. I like the fact that organizations take care of endangered species, but it’d be wonderful if we all could be less selfish and contribute to preserve a better environment.