Being A Child
My first memories are on the second floor of a house with a coal stove, wallpapered walls, near the railway tracks and an open field, between Trobajo and El Crucero neighbourhood . In the outskirts of town... Down on the street, the dog of the owners of a mechanic's workshop would come up to me some mornings, although I must admit that dogs have always scared me. With time I've discovered that I prefer cats. I've turned 3 years old. It wouldn't be long before I moved house, to plaza del Huevo . A new ground-floor flat with a community patio that I would go around in perpetual circles on a tricycle. I only stopped to pick up strawberries that my mother had planted in some pots and put them in my mouth. I liked to observe, the games of wit and my interests in the 2 Spanish TV channels alternated between La bola de cristal , Barrio Sésamo and Pumuki . Some afternoons I went to see my cousins. They lived a few meters away, ...