2 Photos of moments in life

In this picture I think I was 7 years old, I am holding my brother, and next to me is my cousin holding her brother, they are the children of my mother's twin sister. My cousin and I were raised as twin sisters and my brother and cousin too, but for a few years, because after that summer, with my family we went to live in Calama.

My family is from the countryside, we had gone to visit a sister of my grandfather, as her land was beautiful, they took some pictures to remember the moment, I do not remember who took the picture and who were on the ride. It was a summer of much love and very happy, now I remember it with melancholy because of how happy I was growing up in the company of my cousins and family.

In the second photo I am already older, it was in the summer of 2022, I was 18 years old and I went to work as a waitress, cook and bartender in a restaurant in Mehuín, Región de los Ríos. I met a girl, we hit it off and she offered me a job where she was going with a friend, I accepted for the adventure and we traveled together. There we put together a group with Nati my new friend, her best friend Nico, and Javi and Carlos who were a couple and were raising money for their daughter.

 After a bad administration of the place by Covid-19, we all quit and decided to “backpack”, we went through Licanray, Pucara, Conaripe, Llancahue and ended up camping at Lake Pellaifa a few days, then we went to Villarica to return to Temuco, in the photo we were in Licanray, in rafts that worked with plastic buckets with air fitted together, it was night and we could not be in the lake.

To this day we meet with the group, we created a very nice friendship and we went through many things traveling and working together, the first days without a tent, we had to sleep hugging each other because of the cold of the night, taking care of each other in those situations created a nice relationship.