BROKEN WINDOW...!*

I was nine years old and I had never played any sport because I was very shy and I didn’t have a lot of friends so I was all the day in my house and playing with my dolls.
Some days when my mom had to go to work and she couldn’t stay at home with me, my neighbor that is my mother’s best friend she was always taking care of me when my mom couldn’t.

One day my neighbor took a trip with all her family and had to leave her house so she asked my mom if she could take care of her house and my mother accepted.

After that some girls of my neighborhood asked me if I wanted to play volleyball but I had never played volleyball so first I refused and didn’t want to play because I didn’t cause problems with the others, but the girls continued asking me if I could play. I hadn’t had friends and I though that it was a good idea to make friends and to learn to play volleyball, so I decided to play.
Later when they started playing I didn’t know what to do, I threw the ball but the ball broke my neighbor’s window’s house.
In that moment I felt very embarrassed and I didn’t know what to tell to my mother and how to give to my neighbor my sincere apology.

After I had gone to my house I told my mother what was the problem so she got angry but then she understood me.

A few days after my neighbor returned to her house and my mother told her that she tried to clean the window but accidentally she broke the window and gave her apology I was very surprised because I caused the problem but my mom said that she did because she understood my situation and didn’t want to make me feel bad.

Also she said that she was going to pay her.

In this incident I learned that I have to be more careful because then I would have to accept the consequences.

Karinna Vásquez Castro.