The human flag!

Once upon a time; in those days of vacation, when the sun is red and evil, and the friends are just laughing partners, lived a little and adventurous girl, me!

I’m still alive of course, but a part of my life ended that day.

Now, I am going to tell you a story; I know my dear reader; you will laugh about me, so enjoy my mishap.

All started when I was 9 years old. I was on vacations, having a really good time with my family. One day, one of my cousins said, oh let’s go to play outside.

In that moment was a great idea, for me as a child the game time was the best hour of the day and in that moment I had felt that it was the right thing to do.

We went outside to play; we played “the getaway” we had to run to avoid the catching boy. My cousin said before to me , estefanny don’t go out that far!

Of course, I was to busy to think of what she said, I had been thinking on how to escape, so I went upstairs on a strange house.

The catching boy was behind me; he was about to catch me when I had the most intelligent idea, to jumped from the third floor.

I stepped on the grille, and in the moment I looked down I regretted. But it was more important not to lose the game.

I didn’t jump.

So, I started to climb down the grille, I was wining, but in the second floor my skirt hooked in the grille and I tried to jump, but it was too late I was hanging like a flag.

I stayed there like 15 minutes because no one wanted to help me because it was too funny. I had felt fear and hate for all the people starring at me. But one young man helped me in my pain; he took me in his hands and released me.

I remember I felt like a clown, everybody was looking at me and laughing, it was horrible. And the most horrible part was that my skirt ended on my navel and my green panties were the essential part of the show.

I had never gone back to that house; I had been looking for a piece of courage to go back, but it is impossible.

BRITNEY SPEARS:

She was born in December 2 in 1981 in Mississippi.She is a famous and excellent Singer. She sings pop music, and she was the pop star in United States.

When she was 16 years old she began with her musical career. The first album of Britney is “Baby one more time”, she made famous with this album because the teens liked so much the songs of this. In this album there are songs so romantics, slows and she shows an image of a tender, and lovely woman. With this album she is considerate: the pop princess.

In her second album: “Oops I didn’t again” she preserved the image of”a romantic woman” but a little more sensual. In this album she increased her fanatic group. And in this there are more songs for girls and also there are songs about her life; for example the songs: Am not a girl-no yet a woman and overprotected; are songs that described a woman who always lived in a bubble with her family, and her family didn’t let to do anything to her and she expressed in the songs the wish for demonstrating that she isn’t a girl but she needs to grew up, making mistakes, learning about those mistakes, looking for some answers to her questions and trying to mature for being a woman. One phrase that describes it, in one of her songs is: “Say hello to the girl that I am; You're gonna have to see through my perspective I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am And I don't wanna be so damn protected”

Her third album is: “I’m slave for you”. This album changed completely the image that the world had about her. This album showed a sexual woman, since this moment, Britney isn’t the girl who wanted to discover in herself the woman, but a woman with exotics lyrics and movements. Since this moment her life changed and she began with many problems: She began to consume drugs and he had a crisis so she decides to cut all her hair. For that reason she suspended her career for four years.

In 2007 she came back to her musical career, in this year she did the album: “In the zone”, with the same image of her last one album: A sexual woman, but until now she has been making other albums: The circus and others. In these albums she demonstrates the love for someone, the sex and some songs for men.

Britney Spears has been a polemic and crazy singer, because she has done things so different and alarming for the public. Her career has deteriorating for her actions in her life. But she continues being and excellent and nice singer. Her songs there are so famous in the world and the teens like so much these songs.

Britney also has been actress in the cinema, she has done there movies about a love in the beach.

In general I like so much her songs and she always has been my favorite singer, although she made some mistakes her music always being the priority in the teenagers.

My right foot

Four months ago I had an accident in Camilo Torres´Teather, I remember that I was watching a movie with a friend and I decided to get out from there, everything was dark. While I was walking down the stairs I thought there was not more, so I continued walking like in the air and suddenly I fell down from it. Before that moment anything had been so painful, I just stayed quiet and immediately I broke in tears. Two people took me from the arms and when I tried to stand up I couldn´t do it and immediately decided to stay sat. Two boys appeared and took me from the arms. I arrived to the nursery and the doctor started to move my foot, I was yelling while he tried to remove my shoes, people just were looking the scene. The doctor gave me a pill for the pain and a teacher from the University let me use her cell phone to call my dad.

While I stayed sat on a chair, I remember that my dad arrived two hours later and I still crying. He took me in his arms and newly I never had gotten embarrassed like in that day.Imagine this, my dad tooking me out on his arms from the University and many people looking at us! What a shame! T_T

After that I thought: well, I will be better tomorrow after a visit to the Hospital, but that´s no happened, my dad carried me to a house where an old lady who started to rub my right foot, which was the worst thing that my dad could make. Every week in the afternoon I was scared because my “Therapy” was going to start. To the next week I felt prepared to begin classes again; the problem was to learn to use crutches, because all day I stayed in my bed watching TV.

The first time, every teacher asked to me what was happening and every single day I had answer the same: “I fell down from stairs”. To manage the crutches was the most uncomfortable thing that I have done in my live. While I was trying to walk, that thing was hurting my arms and then my body was suffering from feet, to the arms.

I was really anxious to started to walk again, I had parties and meetings but and stay in my home during three weeks was driving me crazy. To started to walk again was so painful and I didn´t remember how to do it with my right foot, but four days later I walked like before the accident.

The moral of this story is walk down the stairs with the lights on. ;)

THE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL:

I studied in “La Normal de Copacabana” since 1997 until now; but I am going to tell the experience since sixth grade (2003).

The first day in high school was so sad and terrible for me, because in elementary school I had a friend, her name is Carolina and I though, I had studied always with her, but in this year I was in a classroom and her in other. In this year I knew many friends and I began with bad grades in science so I had been studying so much for winning this subject and I won this, but I didn’t like Mathematics and I didn’t feel encourage for studying it, so I lost all year mathematics. For it reason I did an evaluation in January in 2004 and I won this, it means that I won Mathematics.

In seventh grade I had been doing some crazy things with my friends to other classmates, and in this year I didn’t care the study, I didn’t make homework, and I lost social sciences because this subject was so difficult, the teacher made oral evaluations and I didn’t like to talk so much I was so shy with the teachers, but I loved to bother the people. I had been loving my friends but the majority of them to lose the year and I continued in eighth grade.

In January I had doing the evaluation for recovering socials science of seventh grade and I won this, so in eighth grade I was more studios than in seventh grade, so I won all subjects but in this year I was beginning with a crisis in my adolescence, I had had a boyfriend and we finish the relationship because he went to live to United States so I was felling so sad and I had many problems with some classmates and with my parents. So for this reason I felt so depressive and I began with bad grades again.

In ninth grade I knew more girls and I did many friends in this year, but it was the worse year in the high school in the grades; I was always with my friends and I never was alone but I was a little depressive so I didn’t care the school. But one day I spoke with the English teacher and she told me that she had been worrying for me, because she saw me more differently than the last year in the grades and in the encourage, so I felt so bad and I began to study, read, make the evaluations and I increased the grades and the encourage with the help of my family.

Tenth grade was more differently, I began to study English in the University of Antioquia, so I had been studying so much in this year and I began to love the English, so in this year I decided to study something with English but I didn’t know yet what do I want to study?

This year was so nice also because I was fifteen years old and my parents did an excellent and beautiful party for my family and for my friends.

In eleventh grade I was more mature, studios, I felt so happy with me, with my family, my friends, and classmates and with the life. In this year I decided to study Translation in the University of Antioquia, so I had been doing if I win the exam in the university I studied it degree course but if I don`t win the exam I stay in the Complementary cycle and this one was the event, I didn’t win the evaluation so I decided to study bachelor`s. And for this decision I felt and I feel so happy because when I began in the first semester I knew that translation isn’t my degree course or maybe in a long time but not now, and I began to love and liked me so much the bachelor`s, the English more and the children of my practicum.

In general I love my formation in the normal, although had always inconvenient and difficult situations in many things.

I have a story

Maybe it is funny, but sometimes I have felt afraid because this is a real story. This story happened the last year, when my grandfather died the 9th October.

My grandfather had fallen in seriously one month ago, he was in the hospital since September and the doctors had not given good news. All my family was sad and bad, in my life I never had seen to the family in that condition.

In the rest week of the schools, a little cousin was in my house taking her vacations week. My mother had said to me that should accompany to my cousin to sleep in a different bedroom from my, where there are three beds. I accepted, so I chose a bed where my grandfather was slept, when he was visiting to my family.

In Colombia there is a belief that when a person is dying, the soul of this person undoes the steps. And my grandfather did this before die.

The 8th October, I woke at three hours with thirteen minutes of the morning; I knew it because I had seen the hour in my cellphone. In that moment I heard a noise as when a person hits with a chair in the dining room, then I heard walking to a person in direction to the bedroom where I was. In that moment I closed the eyes and I turned my body towards the wall and covered with the blanket. The person walked into the room and sat down in the bed where I was and went to bed.

I had very afraid, I opened my eyes and saw that to my side there had nobody. In that moment I said “my grandfather going to die”. When I thought that, the telephone rang. My mother and my father woke up, my mother answered the call. I could not hear the words of my mother but I knew that it was bad news.

I listened to my mom organizing to go out. When she was prepared to go out, she went to my bedroom in that moment to said that she should go to the hospital and I must stay with my cousin. I did not ask what happened because I knew it.

In the morning I got up early, I cooked the breakfast to my father, my cousin and me. I made the beds; I swept and mopped the house. When I was ending with the house my mother called by telephone. She said me that my cousin and I should go to the hospital because the grandpa was dying.

Ok. When my cousin and I arrived to the hospital in Caldas (Ant) all the family already had come there. I found to the grandpa very bad, he was dying slowly. That day in the afternoon, each one of the relatives said good bye to the grandpa with sadly.

The night arrived and my grandfather was dying still. I remembered that the dinner was with all the family to the outskirts of the hospital, in the part of urgencies. Then of the dinner the police arrived to the hospital with a man died. This man had knife wound in the stomach and the blood was going out for heaps of his body. The most entertaining was that the police let to fall the body when they were going down the car.

At middle night my grandfather had not died, so my mother said to me that it should go home from the grandmother to rest in company of my uncles and a cousin.

I had slept two hour, when the telephone rang at three o´clock, somebody called to say that my grandfather had died. My uncles went in that moment to the hospital and I stayed in grandmother´s house with my cousin.

We were in the bed of my grandparents with the light of the bedroom turned on. Suddenly, the light went out slowly and we were scare. My cousin tried to turn on the light but she could not. We wait a moment and about 30 second later the light returned.

We get up of the bed, we went to the living room and saw as the light in another part of the house went out and then it returned. We knew that our grandfather was saying good bye to his home.

I remember these moments, in my house and in grandma´s house, and I smile. It is funny for me because I was neither in the correct place nor in the precise moment. Sometimes I think that maybe my grandfather wanted to say me something. Too, I believe that it was a joke of god to scare me.

In conclusion I hope that it does not return to repeat, because I do not want to live a fright of this again.

NARRATIVE WRITING: BETWEEN MARINILLA AND GUATAPE

NARRATIVE WRITING (Using of past tenses)

Between Marinilla and Guatapé.

BY: Luna Lily García

I want to share this story with you because it was one of the scariest days of my life.

It happened like 9 years ago. My brother was 8 years old and I was 12 years old. I was with my family in our farm in Marinilla. My brother and I were spending some days there because we were on vacations. So we had been in the farm for 5 or 6 days with my grandmother Martha, my aunt Janeth and her husband Jorge. That farm was very nice because it had like 4 rooms and my brother and I could play in the trees, search for guavas in a mountain, make bonfires in the night and play with a dog called “muñeco” that always arrived when we were at the farm. We also were there with our dog from Medellin “Lucas”.

On December vacations we (my brother and me) always spent some part of the vacations in Abejorral with my father, other part in Medellin with my mother who was working on those days and other part in Marinilla with my mother’s family: grandma and aunt.

Well, we were in Marinilla and my aunt decided that we should go to the Reservoir of Guatape to have a different day. So we went to Guatape in our “Lada” car (a Lada is like a jeep) but first we stopped by La Piedra del Peñol. This place has been a typical symbol of the East of Antioquia. There we took some pictures and we climbed up the big stone of El Peñol. My grandmother Marta didn’t climb the stone because she had a little problem in her legs so she got tired very easily. For that reason she waited for us in the first floor of that place while we were going up with my aunt and her husband. From the top part of the big stone there was an amazing view. In general, the landscapes of the east part of Antioquia are gorgeous, full of big and colorful mountains.

Then we went to the first floor of the place and we got into the car to Guatape. My aunt decided not to go to the central part of Guatape but to some farms there were in the surroundings of the reservoir of Guatape. We stopped in a little farm close to one of the bends of the reservoir. There, my relatives started talking with some people from the little farm and they said that they had a small boat and that they could lend us that boat to go around to the waters of the reservoir.

My aunt and her husband immediately said “yes”. The person said that his granddaughter could be with us in case that something could happen and that she also knew how to drive the small boat.

My grandmother decided to stay in the farm that was in a hill because she is scared of water. So we went down the mountain with the granddaughter that was more or less 11 years old. She took the boat and she said to my Janet, Jorge, Juan (my brother) and me to get into the boat. When we were in the boat it started to become full of water and we asked the girl and she said that it was very normal, that we shouldn’t be worried about it. My aunt said that we should be in calm if something happened because we were together. But when we were in the middle of that bend the boat started to sink and the girl jumped into the water and started swimming to the shore of the bend. The boat turned over and my brother and I were under the boat. I remember that the water was very cold and I couldn’t breathe. In my feet I felt a lot of big plants; those plants were like creepers that get stuck in our feet. I tried to take my brother by his hand but he knew how to swim. My aunt and her husband were trying to find us under the boat and Jorge could bring us to the surface of the water. I remember hearing a lot of voices up in the mountains and some guys from a farm went to the shore by running very fast down the mountain. They threw us some life jackets.

The girl was in the shore, very calmed. She was never in danger because when she felt that the boat was sinking she took impulse and jumped and arrived to the shore in minutes.

With the life jackets we could got to the shore and then we walked to get to the hill where my grandmother was. She was almost crying. She said that Guatape is one of the places that she won’t ever go again. And since today she never went there again. I remember her fear because when the boat was full of water she started running with our dog Lucas. When I asked to help with the story she said that it was one of the worst days of her life. That she felt like paralyzed and impotent because she was up in the hill, very far from the lake. That night she couldn’t sleep and we went back to Medellin the day after that: a sunday.

When I arrived to Medellin my mother said that at 11 am of that Saturday she felt so sad because she was feeling that something bad was happening to us. At 11 am of that Saturday we were at that bend or lake of Guatape’s reservoir. The sensation of drowning has been one of the worst I have ever felt.

Travis Barker

Travis Barker is an american musician, and the drummer for the rock-punk band Blink 182. He was born in California, 14 November in 1975. As well he was a member of the transplants, the aquabats, box car racer, + 44 and more.

Travis started playing the drums at the age of 4. He studied with Allen Carter, a percussionist and jazz director.

Music career:

After his graduation in 1993 became a member of the aquabats.

In 1998 the aquabats and blink 182 were in a tour, Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus fired Scott Raynor after a drinking ploblem became far too prevalent. Hoppus and DeLonge asked Barker of Blink 182’s support band The aquabats to fill in for Raynor for the remainder of the tour, and, after being impressed with Barker, asked him to join the band.

The band released their breakthrough album Enema of the State in June 1999 to commercial success, fueled by successful singles "What's My Age Again", "All the Small Things", and "Adam's Song". After releasing live album The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) in November 2000, the band entered the studio and recorded their fourth studio album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, released in June 2001. The album continued the band's commercial success and popularity.

Tensions arose between the band members as DeLonge expressed his desire to cancel the tour and enter a half-year respite from touring in late 2004, and the band officially announced an "indefinite hiatus" in February 2005. DeLonge formed Angels & Airwaves while Hoppus and Barker continued playing music together in +44.

The band announced their reunion in February 2009 at the Grammy Awards ceremony. A well-received reunion tour took place in mid-2009, with a European leg performed in summer 2010. Currently, the band is returning from the aforementioned tour and preparing to record their sixth studio album.

Plane crash:

On September 19, 2008, Barker was injured when the Learjet 60 in which he was a passenger crashed outside Columbia.

On September 21, medical director of the Burn Center reported that Barker sustained second and third degree burns on his lower body and torso and was expected to fully recover within a year. Barker stopped his vegetarian diet and began eating meat to increase his protein intake and possibly speed up healing of his burns. Barker survived the incident.

Curious data:

Travis' first instrument as a boy was the trumpet, and not drums.

TALK ABOUT MY LIFE CIRCLES

An important person that I haven’t seen for several years is my grandfather, he died in 2006 and I still remembered and I talk of him. He was very special with all the family but in the same time he gave a lot of problems because he was a drunker. My grandfather was a professor, but when he gave the retirement he began to drunk, in Copacabana town he was very “famous” because his profession and I remembered that he said that he wanted to have a familiar who were lawyer and a teacher. My sister and one of my aunts are teachers and the lawyer is not practicing yet.

My favorite day of the week is Saturday because these day is when I really rest, my day begin with a long walk with some friends, or just with my boyfriend and his dog, then I arrived home to have lunch and I sleep a short time, after that my friends call me and we watch a film or we cook, or we just play board games. Finally at night we go to drink a beer or a coffee in a bar.

An important place in my family history is Pueblo Rico town, this town is located in southwestern Antioquia, because we lived several years there, we were very happy because our family had a high “status” because my father and mother was the bacteriology of this town, so people in the town knew my sister and my very well and whatever that happened with us, the people help us because the reputation of my family was that my father was very honored. There were a year with a lot of politics problem and thus did that we have to get out to this town.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL…

I’m a serious person, but I try to always being smile, or find a reason to laugh for example when a friend tells me something funny like a joke or when somebody felt out its inevitable not laugh, first I laugh and then if she/he needs help I try to help her/him. Sometimes I laugh or smile when I remember something pleasant that makes me really happy when I’m in bad moments.

Something that I really detest is when somebody is disrespectful with someone else, although this is a very subjective concept, for example for me is very disrespectful when I agree one day or hour to a meeting and makes me wait.

Something that makes me happy is be with people that I really like to be as my friends, parents or also plays with animals because they are pretty and tender.

Something that makes me frighten are horror movies, because I know that when I’m going to sleep I will have nightmares but movies should be very realistic not like monsters or aliens but for example like paranormal things that we know that maybe is going to happen.

Something that makes me embarrassed, is almost everything but in special is when I say something stupid, or somebody very close to me say something inappropriate, immediately I try to change the sense of the conversation.

Something that makes me stressed is when somebody is very slow doing something, or when people shout for everything.

Something that makes me depressed, is when I’m alone in house, because I feel lonely and sad for that reason I try to stay with somebody every time.

Something that makes me relax, is when I stay at home with somebody that really please me, watching movies or tv, without thinking in anything just enjoying the moment.