Frida

Story: Frida
Book: Terror of 6º B
Author: Yolanda Reyes

Yolanda Reyes is a Colombian writer, who was born in Bucaramanga. In his story called Frida, narrates the story of a boy of 11 years (Santiago), that when arrived at the school after the vacations, his teacher asks to him to write in a piece of paper as were his vacations, immediately begins to remember to a girl from Stockholm called Frida. He describes her in a sublimates and beautiful way, because they fell in love, in fact with her was his first kiss. Also Santiago counts as their goodbye, finally teacher asks to him to read what he had written, and begins to say: ““In my vacations I did not do anything special. I did not leave nowhere, I remained in the house, I cleaned my bedroom, I played soccer, I read many books, I rode in bicycle, etc, etc”, but the teacher saw him with a distant, incredulous glance, then the boy asks himself ..Did he fell in love on these vacations too?
This story, shows the innocence and the tenderness of children, especially when they are the protagonists and the voice of story. Also the writer although of “Frida” wants to express that teachers some times are lazy and monotonous in their classes, and a very clear fact, is that when the children arrive from vacations and they do not have prepared the class, resort to that the students write on their vacations.