By Tania Isabel Ruiz Z.

When i was a child, the vacations always was in grandfather’s farm with my sisters Sofia and Raquel and my cousins Claudia, Jenny, Dilcia and Mercedes. Every day we swam in the laguna and we went horseback riding. We also walked around the country picking flowers and eating fruits: mangoes and bananas. Every night my grandfather roasted cobs with butter. Those were the best meals!

On a vacation, my cousin Claudia found the grandfather´s tobacco in a box. Jenny said, “Let´s smoke tobacco to know what it feels.” We smoked all tobacco. After that, i had a lot of dizziness and vomit. When my grandfather came back he didn´t find any cigarettes. He called us an asked us, “Where is my tobacco? And why is Tania vomiting?” Claudia said, “We don´t know where you keep tobacco´s box.” Sofia said, “Tania is sick by to eat many bananas.” However, my grandpa never said that the cigars were in a box and this day don´t there were any bananas, there were some pineapples. He asked again, “Why do you have that smell?” Jenny said, “Because Tania is vomiting.” Finally, Raquel talked and confessed that we found the box and smoked all cigars. My grandfather punish us and sent us to grandmother´s house. Many years later, he confessed that he knew from the beginning that we smoked tobacco by the smell.