Marilyn Astudillo

This summer I went to Mexico for a whole month. I got sick out there after like the first week. One night my stomach started hurting, I went to sleep and woke up with it still hurting. About an hour after I woke up, I threw up. I felt bad because my grandma had to clean it. After that I went to the doctors and got a shot in my butt. This was the second time they did that to me, because I went to Mexico when I was younger and also had gotten sick out there. I shouldn’t have eaten out. Whatever we ate upset my brother’s, aunt’s, and grandma’s stomach too. After that I was scared to eat any other food than what my grandma cooked.

If I had an unlimited plane ticket for a month I would got to mexico for two weeks to visit my family that I have out there. I would go to Puerto Rico for the third week because I’m puerto rican,I’ve always wanted to go there, and I have family there too. For the last week, I would go to Canada because the Drake OVO store is there.

I think dark young adult fiction is beneficial for readers because if we relate to what’s happening in the story then it gives us the feeling of not being alone. Even if we can’t relate to what’s going on in the book then it opens our eyes up to the world around us. Dark stories show us that these things are real and they do occur. It’s reality and we shouldn’t avoid it, like a lot of other people do.

If I could bottle up a memory and open it whenever I’d like it would be when I would go over to my grandparents. In the summer, most of the time, we’d have a cookout and my cousins and I would play in the backyard. Now my grandma lives in Mexico and my grandpa past away. I would go back to those days because my family was together, my grandpa was still alive, and I had nothing to worry about. I would probably open up this bottled up memory once a month. The reason why I would only open it up once a month is because It would be happy to see, but yet so heartbreaking and emotional.