Una historia de la niñez de su profesora Todavía recuerdo lo que ___________________ (pasar) una noche cuando yo ___________________ (tener) diez años y mi hermana __________________ (tener) ocho. _____________ (Ser) ) las 8:00 de la noche en el mes de septiembre cuando mis padres nos _____________(acostar) a mi hermana y a mí. Todavía ________________ (hacer) sol y (nosotras) no __________________ (tener) sueño. Así que _____________________ (decidir) hacernos un juego. Nuestros zapatos de tenis _________________ (estar) en el piso, y _______________ (llevar) unas espinas. Entonces ___________________ (quedar) en ponernos cada una una espina en la boca y averiguar quién podría aguantarla más. Mi hermana _________________ (empezar). Se _____________ (poner) una en la boca y después de cierto tiempo se la _________________(sacar). Me _______________ (decir): “Ahora te toca a ti”. Yo _____________________ (ponerse) una en la boca; pero ___________________ (aburrirse) muy pronto y le _________________ (decir) a mi hermana: “__________________ (tragar) mi espina. (En realidad, yo la había tirado debajo de mi cama.) Ella __________________ (decir): “No te creo. Si _________________ (tragar) una, a verte tragar otra”. En este momento, _________________ (empezar) a reírme y mi hermana me ________________ (poner) otra espina en la boca. Esta vez la espina no _________________ (quedarse) en mi boca sino que _______________ (ir) directo a mis laringes. Mis padres, que _____________________ (mirar) televisión, _____________________ (asustarse) cuando yo ___________________ (intentar) decirles qué había pasado. No ________________ (poder) hablar. (Ellos) me _______________________ (llevar) al hospital. (Yo) ________________ (tener) mucho miedo y ___________________ (llorar). Cuando el médico me ____________________ (examinar), _____________________ (decir) que no _______________ (ir) a ser fácil sacármela. ___________________ (tener) que operarme para sacarme la espina. Después de la operación, mi papá _____________________ (comentar) que _________________ (ser) la espina más cara que había visto. ________________ (Ser) una experiencia cómica y espantosa a la vez. I still remember what happened one night when I was ten years old and my sister was eight. It was 8:00 p.m. in the month of September when my parents put my sister and me to bed. It was still daylight, and we weren’t sleepy; so we decided to make up a game. Our tennis shoes were on the floor and had some stickers in them. So we agreed that each one of us would put a sticker in our mouth to see who could hold it the longest. My sister started. She put one in her mouth, and after a while she took it out. She told me, “Now it’s your turn.” I put one in my mouth, and after a while I told my sister, “I swallowed my sticker.” (Really, I had thrown it under my bed.) She said, “I don’t believe you. If you swallowed one, let’s see you swallow another.” At that moment I started to laugh, and my sister put another sticker in my mouth. This time the sticker didn’t stay in my mouth but went straight to my vocal chords. My parents, who were watching television, became frightened when I tried to tell them what had happened. I couldn’t talk. They took me to the hospital. I was really scared and was crying. When the doctor examined me he said that it wasn’t going to be easy to take it out. He had to operate on me. After the operation, my Dad commented that that was the most expensive sticker he had ever seen. It was a funny and scary experience at the same time.