3. Tell some anecdotes about parents and grandparents and how they met. “Imagine” a family history, either inspired by actual events or made up of fictional people and how they met. The stories must begin with an ending such as the one in The Danish Poet: "If it hadn't been for a Danish poet and Sigrid Undset and a rainy summer in Norway and a slippery barn plank and a careless mailman and a hungry goat and broken thumb and a crowded train, my parents might never have met."There are many ways to trace one's ancestors, either by researching genealogy or through DNA tracing, but if we want to know the human stories, we have to ask family members and hope for the best.
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If it hadn't been for a Teacher and a car accident and my grandfather and a trip to mexico and a visit to a dentist and a jealous ex-boyfriend my parents might never have met.
The story begins in my mom side, she was an student in Guadalajara, she was studying for the dentist career when she applied for an exam (she was only trying herself, she didn't want to pass the exam) but suddenly a teacher in that school told her that he knew who my mom father was, he told her that my grandfather had saved his son life years ago, and so the Teacher passed my mom and she had to go to Mexico City to finish her career.
After that is where my father part begins, he was studying also but he was studying the Lawyer career when he went to the dentist because his mouth was very painful, that is where he met my mom both with their boyfriends and girlfriends but after they met they broke up with their boyfriends and girlfriends and the became a couple and the finally got married and had me and my brother.
So If it hadn't been for a Teacher and a car accident and my grandfather and a trip to mexico and a visit to a dentist and a jealous ex-boyfriend my parents might never have met and i wouldn't had born.
This story is a little complicated. My mom lived in Mexico city, she was my grandfather’s favorite, she always had the best things, and no one could touch her (I mean like hit her) not even her mom because then my grandfather would get really mad. He had a good job, so they never had economical problems and she wanted his daughter to have the same so he convinced my mom to study medicine.
My dad lived in Chiapas, his family hadn’t a good economical situation and there was not any opportunity to study a career, so he was sent to Mexico City since he was in elementary school and lived with their aunts. Since he was a little kid he thought about being a doctor when he was older.
So both of my parents met in med school but they weren’t close friends until they went with a group of friends to Ensenada to keep with their studies. My dad’s girlfriend back home wanted to get married but he wanted to wait until he finished their studies, also my mom was going out with other doctor.
My mom got pregnant with my sister but she and her boyfriend did not want to get married and broke up, she had to send my sister with my grandparents when she was a little baby so my mom could finish her studies. Few months later my mom and dad were really close friends and when they went back to Mexico City, by that time my dad had broken up with his girlfriend and my mom and dad stared a relationship; 3 years later they got married and move to Tuxtla where they finally had me :D and became happier....
My parents met since they were studying at a very young age. In the school my mom was a incredibly beautiful and humble girl and my father was kind of a junior because he was handsome, brought a car to school and was very cocky. My mother didn't like my father and she wanted him to ask her to be his girlfriend, so that my mother would say no and reject him. Nothing happened and they both finished school and were separated by their own aspirations. My mother started working at a wood-factory and my father, I don't know what happened to him.
My grandfather (father of my father) had a jewelry called La Princesa. So one day, my mom was sent to the bank but at the bank they request her a document or something, that she didn't have. So, my mom wanted to tell the factory and they would send the document, but because there were no cellphones the closest place my mom would think of in borrowing a telephone to tell the wood-factgory was my grandfather's jewelry.
She entered and pretended she was interested in one watch and my father was flirting with her trying to make a conversation, due to they were on the same school. My mom borrowed the phone and started talking with my father. Suddenly he said something about gathering about a generation's meal but because my mom had so much things to do she left agreeing to the meal.
My father started to call her because of the "generation's meal" but my mom played basketball and rehears theatre so she had very little time left. She finally gave my father a chance and went to the meal, that's when they started dating and eventually got marry. Even though that's how they met, I was born due to several incidents.
My parents already had two daughters: Brenda and Perla. They just planned on having two daughters, but one day, when hy sisters were very little, about five and four years old, Brenda got sick. She went into comma for a long time and my mom was very scary. They went to the hospital and started trying to wake Brenda up. Eventually she got better but my mother started thinking that having only two daughters was very few and decided to have another child. That's the reason I was born.
If it hadn't been for my grandfather's jewelry, a bank request, that there were no cellphones, and a generation's meal my parents hadn't end up together. But also if it hadn't been for my sister's sickness I hadn't been born.
My incredible students, I am quite pleased for you writings. I think you have done a wonderful work, specially because I know it was completely made up and it does sound like you telling the stories. There are few grammatical erros, but I would like you to read your story again and find them, if not, let me know I can help you. Finally, I hope you liked the assignment and had a great time working on it.
thanks once again.
My incredible students, I am quite pleased for you writings. I think you have done a wonderful work, specially because I know it was completely made up and it does sound like you telling the stories. There are few grammatical erros, but I would like you to read your story again and find them, if not, let me know I can help you. Finally, I hope you liked the assignment and had a great time working on it.
thanks once again.
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