My Trip to Argentina, Chile, and Peru

In June of 2005, my family and me did a trip to Argentina, Peru, and Chile. First we went on airplane to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the flight lasted 3 hours. It was very cool, we went to many churches. Buenos Aires was very fun because we were with a family that were some friends of my parents, so it was cool. We ate many types of meat, because Argentina is the country were the meat is the most delicious. We went to many different restaurants.

We stayed 3 days in Buenos Aires. The next city was Bariloche, Argentina. We stayed 3 days there. We stayed at a hotel called Llao Llao, the hotel was very big and the bedrooms were very big. There was a huge mountain called El Cerro Catedral, it was the second time I saw snow. The second day we went to sky at the mountain. It was the first time I sky, so I fall like 20 times. It was very fun and it was very cool learning to sky. I was very cold when we were skiing because the top of the mountain was at -5 degrees.

When the three days in Bariloche passed we went to Santiago, Chile. When the airplane was going off, one of the motors go off and started again. We almost crashed; I was very scared when the plain almost collided with the floor. The plain was going to go at 9:00 P.M., but we lasted almost until 1:00 A.M. because we where waiting another airplane from the United States. The flight lasted like 2 hours so we arrived very late to the hotel.

Santiago was very bored compared to the other cities. We stayed in Santiago 2 days. The only interesting thing was that we went to a giant course of horse racing. We saw some races and we took some photos with the horses. From Santiago we were going to Cuzco, Peru, to take a train to Machu Picchu, Peru. I was very excited because it was the first time I was in a train of that kind.

Cuzco was a little strange, strange in climate. If you were in the shadow you 5 degrees, but if you weren't in the shadow, you were at 25 degrees. So we needed to have a jacket in our hands always. The train was very big and lasted like 3 hours. It was a very cool trip. When we got to Machu Picchu we got to the top of the hill in a bus. We walked in the mountain for almost 4 hours, it was very hot, and so we needed to have tons of water and hats for the sun.

Machu Picchu was the last city we visited. We stayed three days in Cuzco, and one day we went to Machu Picchu. I really liked and enjoined the trip. I learned a lot about Machu Picchu and Chile’s and Argentina’s history. I hope the person who is reading this considers doing the trip I did. I hope one day I visit the other countries of South America.

Lost!

Joe and Brian were skiing down the hill with their sky teacher, Brian. They were having a lot of fun in the section for amateurs.

When Brian said "Lets go to the professional section!"

"Are you sure?" Kevin said, "Its dangerous."

So Joe said "Yeah."

To go up the mountain they needed to go in a chairlift because the mountain was too high and steep to climb on foot. The mountain was called the highest peak. When the boys saw the mountain they thought of going back, but they wanted to go. The three guys started to see the landscape that surrounded them.

Brian said "Look out, an avalanche!"

The avalanche dragged them like 200 meters down. When the avalanche stopped, they only saw snow, they didn't know where they were,they were lost! They recognized that Kevin had his leg broken, so now the boys were looking for a hospital for Kevin. They walk for almost 1 hour until they saw an old house. When they entered it started snowing outside. They looked if someone was inside. The house was completely alone, but in the house there was a little bit of food and there were beds so Brian and Joe gave Kevin some food and water, and a bed that they founded in a room on the second floor.

An hour passed and anyone came, so the 3 boys went walking down hill, until they saw a giant sled. They decided to go in the sled until they noticed that the sled had no dogs. So they took the no dog sled and they went down hill. Until they saw dark figures in front of them. So they stopped and they saw some dogs. The boys lasted a lot tying the dogs to the sled.

Brian said to Joe "The only good thing in the day".

When they were in going down, the sled start breaking apart, so they jumped out the sled. No one got hurt so they kept walking.

When they were walking, they heard a sound like a thunder, but there weren't clouds. They were afraid that another avalanche came again. So they went in a nearby cave that they saw. When they were in the cave, a avalanche came and trapped them inside the cave. They took some parts of wood and burned them, so they start melting all the snow to water. They lasted a lot melting the snow, so they were desperate to go to a hospital for Kevin.

They kept walking and walking for hours. They thought that they will never get to the hospital in the bottom of the mountain, so they layed in the snow like if they were sleeping with their eyes closed. They heard a giant crack and they thought going to a little hill or a cave, but they couldn't. They were trapped between the mountain and the bottom of the mountain and the avalanche. They ran in direction of the bottom of the mountain. Each second the sound got louder and louder until they saw the giant avalanche almost on top of them.

"Watch out!" Brian said, "Its another avalanche!."

The avalanche was enormous, it dragged trees, rocks, houses, etc.. The avalanche dragged them a lot of time downhill. A tree hitted Joe in his arm, so he was screaming.

Brian said "If you don't move, the avalanche will not make you go below the snow!"

The avalanche was very strong and it was getting bigger each second. The snow covered Brian so he couldn't breath very well. The avalanche started decreasing in power and size when it was almost at the bottom of the mountain. Joe remember he had a radio deacon, which the rescue team could detect, so he send a S.O.S. message. The rescue team carried them to the hospital located at the bottom of the mountain.

They went very fast to the hospital, Kevin had his leg broken, so he was translated to the emergency room. Joe's arm was injured, but not broken. Days past and injuries healed. Joe at the end, kept skiing and became a professional, Kevin couldn't sky again, so he became a poet. Brian became a singer and everybody ended very happy.

Air Plain Crash in New York

This week an air plain crashed into a 80 floor building in New York. The plain was a private plain, inside there were two people the baseball pitcher, Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, Taylor Stranger. It seems that the plain had motor problems. Cory Lidle was a major league pitcher for 9 years. Lidle was 34 years old. He has a wife called Melanie and a 6-year-old son called Christopher. Cory Lidle was in the New York Yankees.

"Its very tragic" Bloomberg, the Yankee coach, said.“We have to say a little
prayer for those we lost."

Lidle and Stanger left a small airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The plane circled the Statue of Liberty and then headed north up the East River, along the eastern shore of the island of Manhattan. The plane veered off its path as it approached East 72nd Street, crashing into the high-rise apartment building at about 2:45 p.m. Residents in and around the building said they heard a huge explosion. Many people saw large flames coming from the windows high above the street. Pieces of debris from the plane and the building fell to the street as the fire spread. Mayor Bloomberg said 11 firefighters were injured while fighting the blaze. The life of Cory Dible was very good and all the Yankee players are praying for him and his family. That is how life is.

Info. from http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7684

The Worst Holiday

My worst holiday would be like going maybe to (1.)Tomboctou, India, or Iraq. We needed to go (2.)by car, by ship, or by plain, but we went by plain(the only good thing in the trip). When were in the flight, the plain losses control and it goes down and we land in water, and then we see an island and its abandoned. Another bad holiday is maybe we are going in car to a city of Colombia and the car's gasoline finished, so we need to go to a hotel. The hotel is (3.)old, creepy, and very boring. There wouldn't be computers, TV or someone to do something. We would stay a week there and in the hotel the signal on the cellphones will be dead, so it will be very boring.

Then I would do my homework because in the last day of school (4.)the teacher gave us a worksheet, she explained a project, and she told that the things were for the first day of school.
(5.)Under a pile of garbage, I saw many giant rats. I think there were 7, but instead of seven, there were 10. When my mother told me if I finished my homework I said "(6.)Yes, I finished like ten minutes ago, (7.)but I saw some big rats, when I was doing my homework". She told me that (8.) I need to kill a rat, if I see it. That would be the worst holiday of all.

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Conflicts and Solutions

Everyone makes mistakes, and many of those mistakes create bigger and bigger problems. When I have a problem I try to solve it, if it doesn't work I try to do it again in a different way. Sometimes when I have problems that I can't solve I do bad things, like bad habits. Sometimes I get very angry because I think that I am going to fail in the work or job I am doing, and that I ignore problems when people blame me: for example, I blame my sisters. Sometimes when I can't something and everything results bad, my sisters or my parents (specially my sisters) help me.

I remember one time when I had a project that at the last hour I realized the project was horrible, so I did it again with the help of my sisters and it was very good. I am a procrastinator in some things, stuff that aren't from school, I have many problems with homework assignments or writings.

One time when I was like 6 or 7 years old there was a painting that my sister was making for homework, but it had no color, so I thought that she wasn't going to color it. So I tried to color it when she was in the bathroom, to help her, but the painting got horrible, I tried to fix it, but I couldn't. When my sister realized she didn't talk to me much. I tried to say sorry to my sister, but she was too mad with me. I think that doing that wasn't such a good idea. The next day I did a card to my sister saying sorry for my actions, and she forgot me. That was one of the problems I've had with my sister, don't blame me, everyone makes mistakes, we're not perfect. Who in this world doesn't make mistakes?

The United Nations

I've had many experiences with UN and MUN that is Model of United Nations model of United Nations that is an international organization that helps countries in need, my academic elective is MUN and I had been in two conferences, one of the school (JMUN) and an international one of South America (CAMUN). In both conferences they gave prizes like best dressed, cutest eyes, cutest smile, etc... I won in both conferences best dressed of men. In the two conferences I had been in the same council that is called the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the school conference I was France and in conference of South America I was Czech Republic, I learned a lot of things of Czech Republic that I didn't knew.

The conferences last like 7 hours because you do many things like voting for resolution, discussing crisis and much more. The conference of the school was very fun because many people were laughing and didn't use parliamentary language so the people that did that went out of the meeting for 5 minutes. The other conference was fun but was very serious. In all the conferences they give you breakfast, because it was in the morning. There are many people in the school that participate in MUN, there are many people in 8th grade. I really like this topic, because it is very interesting. In 7th grade are 4 people that have been in conferences, Augusto, Daniel, Luis Carlos, and me. In MUN you can learn a lot about the UN and many more features of a country. It can be a great and interesting experience to anyone, I hope I have many more conferences.