My Childhood

I'm just getting back from a visit to my grandma's house. Last night it rained so there was this unique smell, the smell of wet soil. It's that smell that brings mi back to my childhood, the sundays afternoons playing around with all my numerous cousins, while our parents scolded us for getting dirt on our clothes.

My first childhood memory it's from one of those days, when I was very little, maybe 5 years old, my cousins an I were playing below the avocado trees; it was very windy so the avocados would fall down to the ground and game consisted in avoid and pick the avocados from the ground and then throw them to each others(and sometimes, we actually keep playing this game).

I believe that that was one of my favorites activities outside school, spending time with my cousins. I remember that for a very long time I went with three of the to an art class for kids, and was the best moment of the week for me. My mom use to thought that I was very talented, but I believe that it was her motherly love clouding her judgement, I wasn't really good, but it didn't keep me from having a great time.

I remember my childhood as a very happy time, surrounded by my very big and loving family.

A country I would like to visit

  Have you ever heard about Bhutan? it's considered the happiest country on earth and people there seem to have a completely different life style.

  In Buddhism, Bhutan's main religion, exists the belief that in the past the earth was a paradise that disappeared at some point, but some of it remains should exist today. Can you guess where we can find can find this paradise? Well, Buddhists believe than Bhutan is that place.  
  Let's get back to this happiest place in the world thing, they even have a Happiness Department and their own happiness index; that considers cultural, educational and environmental issues, all of them inspired by the country religion. Despite being considered one of the poorest countries, the people of Bhutan claim to be happy.

  Being there, I would love to know the people to understand what makes them so happy, and also visit the places that are considered as the Buddhist paradise, they have to be so beautiful. I would work there for a while, because I would get to understand the culture, but I wouldn't live there because I don't think I could get used to such a different reality.