My neighborhood "la Gloria" by Carlos Mario Rendon Vanegas

My neighborhood "la Gloria"

 by Carlos Mario Rendon Vanegas

My neighborhood is very quiet because it is located far from noisy factories. It's called "la Gloria" there are many apartment buildings but many are empty because they are very expensive. I live in a house not apartment because the apartments are often very small with thin walls and noisy neighbors.

In my quiet house every morning I get up early and take a shower without forgetting shave my face and combed my hair while my wife makes breakfast and after have breakfast together often she has cereal and I have coffee with milk and also eggs with corn bread usually we watch TV in the morning and we like the news.

I take the bus and go to my work and start my work at eight o'clock and return late at night.

In the neighborhood "la Gloria" we have a small park with slides and swings. There are young exercisers in the mornings and in the afternoon children play after school while Mrs. Maria walks her dog and Mr. Mario looks his grandchildren play on the swings.

A block from my house is a supermarket "Exito" with fast-food places and clothing stores but there’s no mall because there’s no movie theater and there are no restaurants or outdoor cafés. The service hours of the supermarket "Exito" is Monday to Saturday from half past eight in the morning until nine at night and on Sunday and holidays from nine o'clock to eight p.m.

Sometimes my friends ask me:

-       How often do you go to the supermarket “ Exito”?

I answer that very little because I prefer the marketplace because everything is cheap.

-       How do you like the fast-food places in the supermarket “ Exito”?

They’re not bad. I mean, they’re cheap.

Next to the supermarket “Exito” is the cemetery. It’s very old and currently has very few people buried and decided to make a park cemetery. It’s a nice and quiet with flowers and many birds. It’s open every day of the week and the weekend we celebrate the Eucharist. In my neighborhood we have two schools and a clinic besides Catholic Church and three Christian churches.

Ten minutes from my neighborhood is the “Parque Acuático Ditaires” with slides and wave pool and also semi-Olympic pool and sauna and Turkish.

Next to the “Parque Acuático Ditaires” is the “Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagui”. The stadium was opened in 1994 and can accommodate 12,000 spectators.