Lembrando o Passado

Remembering the past

 As I ran down the open hill, spreading my arms, feeling the fresh air brush my face, all these memories started popping up in my head. A smile filled my face. If i ever had the chance to go back to my country for a year, I would want to go back and remember the moments in the past , the traditions. I would hope to learn how Cape Verde came to power over Portugal.

  I sneaked into the dark , colorless room with pictures of my childhood and my mom's. I caught myself gazing at the dark brown bag. I walked up to it and slowly opened up the bag and I caught myself staring at the bag filled with candy. I reached in and grabbed a whole bunch of colorful tiny candy and walked up to the door.

  " where do you think your going with that" My grandma said while folding her arms.

  " mmmmmm" I gulped and looked at her.

  " you can have it" she smiled and turned away. This is a moment that I would want to go back to , but I can’t in this moment. Recently my grand grandmother had passed away.  I want to go back to Cape Verde so I can be remembered about the great times we had. This might not seem like the best moment but it is to me because this is the only precious moment I remember of bein' around with my grandmother, Anita. I want to go back to Cape Verde so I can remember more great times.

   I could hear the loud music from the grocery store I walked out and there in front of me was big crowd with colorful painted designs on they’re faces some wore queen and king costumes… This is one of the traditions that we Cape Verdeans celebrate together as one big country. This is also one of the reasons why I’d rather go to cape Verde than stay in Boston. In Boston everyone is always doing they’re own thing and we almost never get the chance to be together.

 I want to go back to Cape Verde to learn about how Cape Verde gained it’s independence to be a free country. I have so many questions like who led the Movement for Democracy? What did they do to free the country? …I feel lost when I don’t know about half of the things that happened in the History,Without individual memory, a person loses they’re identity, and do not know how to act with others. Imagine waking up one morning not able to summon total strangers from family and friends. Memory is the same, though its loss does not right away stop everyday  activity. But ignoring history, absent or poor memory does loose us for actions , especially in confrontation with the outside world, and that’s why it’s important to know the history of Cape Verde. 

 In conclusion if I could go anywhere in the world for a year  it would be my country,  Cape Verde. There’s still so much antiquity, traditions still out there for me to acknowledge , and so much memories to be revived.  

EP

29/01/2014