HOME ALONE

Do you remember Macaulay Culkin in Home alone? I believe everybody have ever seen this movie at least once. When I was a child, this was one of my favourites.

In fact, I want to know if you like to be alone at home. Would you like to live alone?

My parents and my sisters live very far from here. They lived here for a long time, then they decided to live in other city and I decided to stay here. My sisters decided to go with them. In the begin, my father stayed a long time here with me, because he has an office here.

They come to Pelotas sometimes and spend a long time here. I always thought I'd like to live alone, but I've changed my mind. When we are younger, it's nice, our friends can visit us, we can make parties, we can sleep and wake up as late as we want. But now all of my friends are working and studying very hard. So they can't be here every week.

And I really don't argue with my parents. We get on very well, they are my friends. We go out, we chat a lot, we work togheter... And they understand my choises, so I don't need to get worried with them. I don't need to change my life when they're here.

And I really miss my sisters! I'd really like to live with them again, but I now it's not possible. My older sister has a baby, so now she has her family.

I remember when we traveled togheter. We had a little car, so it used to be very full. And we used to spend a long time on road. Sometimes we really fought, but we used to have fun. My older sister is very talkative, so she just didn't shut up! If there was nothing to talk about, she invented something. She is an english teacher, so sometimes she used to translate musics for us. And once she read "The little prince". All of it!

Now she is a hippie. And the other is a rebel. But she is my best friend! I usually say she is my soulmate! It's really good when we're togheter. We never fight! When I need to talk to someone, I just take the phone and call her. And sometimes she listens to me for hours!

Well, you may be not so intersted about my family... I just forgot and got writing...

I really want you to think about your families. I'm really happy with mine. Of course there are problems, but there is always something that we share. There is always a moment when we need them. It's very easy to put the blame for our difficulties in our parents, but we have to understand they're not perfects. And may be we will have children, so we will feel how they feel.

The truth is they're always by your side. But the problem is that sometimes they are not able to accept our life stile or our choises. Maybe because they didn't have opportunities. Or maybe because they don't know what to do, but they pretend to know!

Well, I hope you understand what I say. I know our parents are not angels, but we're not either!

Have a nice weekend. I am on holiday, so I can watch a lot of movies \o/

Juliana