Memory Monday. The biggest surprise of my life (Es-Eng)

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Inicia una nueva semana y es hora de visitar esta maravillosa ¨Qurator Community¨:  para compartir con todos mis amigos este especial momento #memoirmonday. Me encanta la iniciativa que ha creado nuestro amigo @ericvancewalton porque me brinda la oportunidad de dejar un mensaje a mis descendientes, y que a través de esta iniciativa pueden conocer como era la vida cien años atrás de su ancestro


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A new week begins and it's time to visit this wonderful ¨Qurator Community¨:  to share this special moment #memoirmonday with all my friends. I love the initiative that our friend @ericvancewalton has created because it gives me the opportunity to leave a message for my descendants, and through this initiative they can learn what life was like a hundred years ago for their ancestor


Participar del #memoirmonday cada semana, es una genial idea de dar a conocer algunos aspectos importantes de tu vida. Para poder participar del desafío solo tienes que ingresar en el link de ¨esta iniciativa¨:  Como todas las semanas nuestro amigo Eric nos hace una pregunta, y tenemos siete días para hacer un post con la respuesta


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Participating in #memoirmonday every week is a great idea to share some important aspects of your life. To participate in the challenge, just click on the link "This initiative": Like every week, our friend Eric asks us a question, and we have seven days to make a post with the answer


Una de las mayores sorpresas que he tenido, ha sido cuando tome la determinación de dejar mi hogar para viajar a conocer la capital del país. ¨Bs¨As¨. Es una de esas ciudades que toda persona tiene que conocer, dado que allí esta la mayor fuente de empleo, algo extremadamente importante si deseas ser alguien en la vida; sin embargo, la mayor sorpresa no ha sido conocer la ciudad, lo más interesante ha sido que visite para conocer, y me termine quedado a vivir allí más de la mitad de mi vida


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One of the biggest surprises I've had was when I decided to leave my home to travel to the country's capital. Buenos Aires. It is one of those cities that everyone should know, since there is the largest source of employment, something extremely important if you want to be someone in life; However, the biggest surprise has not been getting to know the city, the most interesting thing has been that I visited to get to know it, and I ended up staying there for more than half of my life


Una vez que me establecí en ¨Bs¨As¨ y estaba seguro que quedarme era un buen plan, comencé ahorrar para comprar un terreno para construir mi casa, por esa razón decidí que sería bueno trabajar varios turnos en la empresa que trabajaba para reunir dinero más rápidamente, fue cuando conocí a Gabriela y decidimos hacer una vida junto, y fue cuando vino otra de mis mayores sorpresas, la llegada de mis hijos


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Once I settled in Buenos Aires and was sure that staying was a good plan, I began saving to buy land to build my house, for that reason I decided that it would be good to work several shifts at the company I worked for to gather money more quickly, that's when I met Gabriela and we decided to make a life together, and that's when another of my biggest surprises came, the arrival of my children


La vida siguió su curso y con el paso del tiempo mis hijos se hicieron grandes, y estando en edad de querer salir solos de mi casa a conocer la vida fuera del hogar, decidimos con mi esposa que era el momento de regresar a mi ciudad natal donde la vida para mis hijos era mucho más tranquila. No paso mucho tiempo en restablecerme en mi ciudad natal y conseguir un empleo para mantener a la familia. Después de algunos años llegaría la mayor sorpresa que un padre puede tener, la llegada de sus nietos. Es increíble como pasa el tiempo cuando disfrutas de la vida, en tan solo en una abrir y cerrar de ojos me convertí en abuelo


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Life went on and over time my children grew up, and being at the age where they wanted to leave my house alone to experience life outside the home, my wife and I decided that it was time to return to my hometown where life for my children was much calmer. It didn't take long for me to settle down in my hometown and get a job to support the family. After a few years, the biggest surprise a father can have would come, the arrival of his grandchildren. It's incredible how time passes when you enjoy life, in just the blink of an eye I became a grandfather



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What a journey you've had! How far is Buenos Aires from your hometown? Were you able to make it back to your hometown regularly before you moved back? I try to make it back to see my family at least twice a year but when I was working my day job sometimes I didn't see them for a year or two.

I miss my parents' house a lot, so glad you visited your home regularly.

While I lived in Buenos Aires, I returned to my hometown every summer.

Buenos Aires is about a twelve-hour long-distance bus ride from my hometown, but if you take a plane it's a little less than an hour and a half.

But when I was a teenager, back in 1982, we traveled by train, and the trip was 48 hours.

Have a beautiful afternoon, dear friend @ericvancewalton

That is the EXACT same distance as it is for me from Minnesota to Ohio where I grew up! There were many times, when I couldn't afford to fly that I'd get in the car at around 2:30am and drive all day to get to Ohio around dinner time. Our bus and train service isn't the greatest in America so it would have taken 2-3x longer than driving to get there that way and it would have been more expensive. Thanks, enjoy your afternoon as well!