¿Qué quieres ser de mayor?

My name is Lucía and I am eight years old. I live in a small house with my mother, my father and my brother Leo. Yesterday at school, the teacher asked me: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And I didn’t know what to say.

My mother is an engineer. She works with rockets. Last week, one of her rockets flew into space. She is very clever and she loves the stars. Today she is not at home: she is working late.

My father works at home: he is a painter. He cooks, washes the clothes and helps us with our homework. In the afternoon, he paints very beautiful pictures. He says he has two jobs, and he smiles.

My brother Leo is twelve. He wants to be a dancer and he dances every day. Right now he is dancing in the kitchen, and Dad is singing. There is a lot of noise in my house!

Tonight, Mum gets home at nine. We are going to look at the stars together, and I am going to think a lot. An engineer, like Mum? A painter, like Dad? Mum says: “You don’t have to choose today. You can be lots of things.”

Tomorrow, at school, I am going to say: “I want to be lots of things.”