La casa

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La casa

Vivo en esta casa desde que nací y me gusta mucho. Sin embargo, mi amigo Marco cree que es espantosa y que aquí viven fantasmas; o por lo menos uno. Yo nunca he visto uno, pero él está segurísimo. Como tiene tanto miedo del fantasma, siempre espera delante de nuestro garaje cuando viene a buscarme para ir a jugar. Es un gallina. Y nunca ha llegado a pisar la escalera, ni tampoco a tocar la barandilla.

Marco está convencido de que un fantasma llamado Casimiro vive justo debajo del tejado y que entra y sale de la casa por nuestra chimenea. Según Marco, Casimiro debió de morir hace tiempo de aburrimiento y ahora se dedica a asustar al vecindario.

Lo dicho, yo nunca lo he visto y tampoco creo que haya alguno, pero él siempre me intenta convencer de que existe y cree que Casimiro es responsable de todas las cosas extrañas que ocurren en el barrio.

Hace poco, por ejemplo, Marco venía patinando hacia mi casa por la calle, cuando, de repente, creyó ver a Casimiro asomado a la ventana. Se asustó tanto que se tapó los ojos y terminó atropellando al cartero, que se encontraba junto al buzón. El cartero se chocó con nuestro timbre y aquel ruido me hizo salir a ver qué pasaba. Abrí la ventana y... ¡vaya! Había cartas repartidas por todos los lados y el cartero se había dado un culetazo. Mientras, Marco seguía tapándose los ojos con las manos y no paraba de repetir que Casimiro bajaría a sentarse sobre el canalón para morirse de la risa.

¡Pobre Marco! Cree que todo es cosa de fantasmas cuando, realmente, lo que ocurre es que es un poco torpe.

Translation

Home

I live in the house where I was born and I like it a lot. However, my friend Marco thinks that it’s scary and that ghosts live here; or at least one ghost. I’ve never seen one, but he is convinced. He’s scared of the ghost, so he always waits in front of our garage when he comes to see if I can play out. He’s a chicken. And he’s never gone up the stairs or touched the bannister.

Marco is convinced that a ghost named Casimiro lives just under the roof and enters and leaves our house through the chimney. According to Marco, Casimiro must have died a long time ago of boredom, and now he’s scaring the neighbourhood.

I said I’ve never seen him and I don’t even believe there is a ghost, but Marco always tries to convince me that the ghost exists and he thinks that Casimiro is responsible for all the strange things that happen in the neighbourhood.

A little while ago, for example, Marco came skating towards my house along the street when suddenly he thought he saw Casimiro leaning out of the window. He got such a shock that he covered his eyes and ended up running over the postman, who was next to the letterbox. The postman crashed into our doorbell and the noise made me go and see what had happened. I opened the window and … oh my! There were letters spread all over the place and the postman had fallen on his backside. Meanwhile, Marco was still covering his eyes with his hands and kept repeating that Casimiro would come down and sit on the gutter and die of laughter.

Poor Marco! He thinks that ghosts are responsible for everything when, in reality, he is just a bit clumsy.

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