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Personal Narrative: Quinceañera

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Princess for a Night The term Quinceañera is the ceremony that celebrates the coming of age of a girl in Latin American countries, and as a girl growing up seeing my mother’s pictures it was the only thing you could dream of. Some parents spend their whole lives saving the ceremony, instead of saving for a college fund. That is how important this ceremony is. You save up for: the locale, the dress, the shoes, the food, the gifts, the courts tuxes and dresses, the jewelry, the makeup, hair, and nails. In the summer of 2014 my family arrived to the Santa Clara International Cuban airport, on Friday, June 9th. We arrived to my grandparent’s ranch at around six p.m.; later that night my family came to visit and my aunt already telling me what …show more content…

Why so soon?” “You also have rehearsals starting Tuesday.” I was so flustered; I had no idea what was going on. Everyone was asking me about my dress, I was getting instructions, my mother was teaching me how I should stand and smile for the pictures, my aunt was muttering in the back talking about what she was going to do with my hair. I hadn’t even been in the country for two hours and instead of a cordial hello, I was getting asked about my Quinceañera. “No one is seeing my dress before the ceremony.” I told everyone that kept asking about the dress. “No one is seeing my pictures until after the ceremony when they are all ready.” I said when asked about the pictures (that I had not even take yet). I was being selfish and did not want anyone to see any of things until the ceremony; which was going to be held at the Iglesia Envangelica de Los Pinos in Colon. The only voices of reason where my father and my uncle. The women in family from my great grandmothers to my grandmothers were all going insane with the party and dresses. On Monday I had to wake up at around six a.m. to get ready for the inside shoot. Tatiana, the photographer, was so tranquil and kind. She kept my mother and aunt calm because they were getting anxious. Tatiana also helped me; I had never been a fan of being in front of the camera or being the center of attention. So for me, the idea of being the subject of pictures made me really …show more content…

They were all so pretty, but it is not fun having to change six times, with new hair and makeup each time, without food for eight hours is not fun. The next day was my first rehearsal. I was so anxious about meeting the people who would be part of my court. I am not an extroverted person, so the thought that I had to socialize with people who I did not know made me really nervous. I was also really anxious because it was the day that I was going to give the announcement of what they were going be wearing. The girls would be wearing long silver dresses and the guys would be wearing tuxes with pink accents. When I gave them this information Moises said, “Silver?!” and let me say that it was not really encouraging. On July 1st I had the outside shoot, and it was worse than the inside shoot. I had to wake up at five a.m. to get Varadero before the sunrise and we had to hurry and take pictures before the sun got too high. That day it was about one hundred degrees outside which made changing horrible. I was already irritated because I had rehearsals the night before and did not reach my bed until twelve a.m.; so I was not in the best mood. That day we finished at around three p.m. and it was not over; while we were waiting outside for my father to find a restaurant we found a gorgeous Volkswagen Beetle 1970 and took a picture with the car before the owner came back. Which made me feel really

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