Melanie Leyva
Professor Morinini
English 114B
April 1, 2013
A Walk to
Glassel Park
My phone alarm is ringing off the hook and I cannot seem
to find it. I am getting off my bed to
turn on the light; the phone is still no where in sight. A light bulb turns on in my head, I get the
idea to crouch down and look under my bed.
Grabbing my phone, I turn off the alarm and look at the time. It is 6:15am.
Realizing that I have no school today makes me a sad camper instead of a
happy camper since I am up this early for no reason. I stand up to turn the light off and I walk
back to my bed to get a little more sleep in.
My eyes are open again and it is 8:45am.
It is time to get into the shower and prepare for my day. I walk ten steps to get to my bathroom and
turn the knob between the blue and red line so the water can be warm. While the water is warming up I grab my IPod
and click on music and go to the playlist named “Relaxation.” I step into the shower and as the first drop
of water touches my leg instantly goose bumps appear. Personally that is one of the best feelings
ever. After about an half hour of
singing and shampooing I am out of the shower.
I walk back to my room get dressed and then brush my teeth. I am ready to start my day.
My
phone starts ringing; I am getting a call from my grandma she tells me “I am
making egg sandwiches. Would you like
one?” I reply “yes of course” and I walk
to her house which is only about ten steps away from my front door. Stepping into the back door she asks me “Mel,
how come you didn’t have school today?”
I reply “Grandma it’s because today is Cesar Chavez Day.” This time my grandma really out did herself,
the egg sandwich tastes’ amazing. While she
and I are eating my little cousin Michelle walks in the front door. She comes in and greets everyone hello with a
kiss on the cheek. I offer her an egg
sandwich and she nods her head up and down meaning yes. I walk to the kitchen and make her eggs and
toast the bread. I walk back to the
table and hand her the sandwich. While
she eats I ask her if she would like to walk with me to Glassel Park. With a smile on her face she says “Yeah I
want to go. But can we take our gloves
and a bat so we can play softball?” I
look at her and say “Sounds like fun.
Once you finish your food we can pack our stuff and leave.”
It is now about noon, Michelle and I grab our bags and
get two water bottles each to put into our bags. We both say bye to everyone and head out the
door. Immediately I notice the beautiful
weather we are having. The sun is out
and the wind is blowing. What a great
day to go to the park. Now we are
walking down Avenue 30 and once we get to the bottom of the street we will make
a left on Edward. My cousin Michelle starts
talking about just random stuff. She’s
one of those flies that constantly buzz in your ear. Sometimes it is necessary to tune her
out. But in the end you just have to
love her. While walking down Edward I
see my former classmate Shanelle and her sister Shallymar. I stop and talk to them for about two minutes
and continue walking. To kill time, I
start playing a song that both Michelle and I like it is called Never Let Me Go
by Lana Del Rey. We are singing along
and finally we reach Avenue 33 and turn right.
Michelle is now going through my phone looking for other songs we can
sing along to.
We reach the cross walk and we are waiting for the little
green man to appear so we can cross the street.
Michelle tells me “I hate this light it takes forever to change.” I nod my head and say “yes Michelle I know
but you just have to be patient.” After
crossing the street we reach Verdugo Rd. and make a left. I get my water bottle out of my bag and take
a sip, so does Michelle. Thinking to
myself I notice not a lot of people are not walking around but then again it is
Monday and people work or go to school.
Finally after about 25 minutes we reach Glassel Park. Already with a head start my cousin yells
“race you to the softball field” and I smile and say “last one there is a
rotten egg.” I win but just barely since
I almost slipped because of this mud hole type thing.
Before we start to play catch I remind Michelle that we
need to stretch our arms and legs out.
After we do that we throw the ball around for a while to get our arms
warmed up. Then we go to home plate
stretch our legs and do a few laps around the bases to get loose. Michelle asks me to teach her how to slide so
I help her do that. I show her step by
step how I was taught. She didn’t get it
perfect but she is making progress. Now
I hit some grounders to her at each base but mainly at third because that is
the position she likes to play. After
about fifty or so grounders it is time for pop fly’s. While I am doing these I always get a bit
nervous because I am afraid the sun will blind her and the ball will pop her in
the eye. I know exactly how that feels
and it is not a good feeling at all.
I start to get thirsty so I go to the bench where our
bags are and Michelle follows to drink some water. Now that we finished playing softball and
doing various drills I tell her “let’s go to the sandbox.” She tells me “Mel, I think you are a little
too old to be playing in the sandbox” and I reply “Michelle, you can never be
too old to have fun!” So when we get
there we take our shoes off and start playing around. Right away she climbs the stairs to get on
the slide and I just get on the swing.
As I keep an eye on her I am looking around the park and start to notice
there are more older than younger people here.
I see the older people jogging around the park or walking their
dogs. A few younger people are playing
on the basketball courts and the little kids are in the sandbox like Michelle
and I.
The wind has died down and it is now around 4:00pm. The sun is not so bright there are a little
more clouds in the sky. Even though it
is not windy, it is cool outside. I tell
Michelle “it is time to go” so we both put on our shoes, drink the rest of our
water and start walking home. Going up
Verdugo Rd. we see people hanging outside of the liquor store. I can tell Michelle is scared so we cross the
street to the other side and start speed walking. The rest of the way home was relaxing and we
start talking about softball and sliding.
When we are almost home I zone out and realize how much being at the
park with Michelle reminds me of when I was young. How I feel that nothing really matters other
than having fun when I am there. It is
one of my favorite places to go and just relax.
That is exactly how I spent the day.
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