THANKSGIVING TRIP

   Tomorrow I am leaving to my first Thanksgiving trip. It will be a week, and I am sure that is going to be one of the best of my life. I am going to Santa Fe, to the Grand Canyon, to the Zion Park, and to Las Vegas. I have always wanted to go to the Grand Canyon and to Las Vegas and I can´t believe that finally I am going to do it!

   It is going to be hard to travel by car so many hours, because in Spain everything is smaller, and every city is closer from each other, so I am not used to do that kind of trips by car. Anyway, I am so excited about the trip and I am sure it is going to be something that I will never forget.

   In this moment I am aware that I am really lucky because I am here. These months here in the United States have been amazing and I have enjoyed more than ever, and I am happier now that I am about to do the first long roadtrip of my whole life. This week I hope to find the best part of this country, because although in Europe a lot of people think so, I know that the United States are not only high buildings and big houses. In this trip I am going to visit the Grand Canyon, and I am sure it is going to be one of the most beautiful landscapes that I have ever seen.

   So, after a few stressful weeks finally I have a break to enjoy and take fresh air! The only thing that I have to do right now is to pack my luggage and prepare myself to have a wonderful week! 

SOMEDAY

   She decided that she had to write a list when she was 9. A list of every country where she wanted to go. There are a lot of countries on that list 11 years  later, but the problem is that she doesn´t know how to make true her dream. She has never travelled by plane, and every single day, she waits for that moment.

   But it isn´t easy. Not now. Now everything is difficult for her and for her family. Her mother is unemployed and his father can´t win money enough with his job. This year, she can´t study at the university anymore, because the cost of her courses has increased  and her family doesn´t have money to pay it.

   But her family is not the only one in that situation.  In Spain thousands of families are suffering the biggest crisis that the country has had ever. How could she come her dream true on this moment? She knows what she has to do in this moment. She has to find a job and help to her family. She can´t go out to have dinner every Saturday anymore, as she was used to do, or buy clothes once a month. Now it is time to sacrifice herself, to forget everything she has always wanted, and to think just about what her family needs. That´s it.

   Anyway, although she will have to wait to go to all those countries on her list, she knows that someday she will do it. She doesn´t know when or how. She doesn´t know how much time is going to last this situation. But the only thing that she knows is that the list that she started to write when she was 9, and that is saved in the last drawer of her desk, someday will come true.

THE MOST TRAGIC HALLOWEEN

  Halloween is supposed to be a terrific celebration.  But what happened in Madrid, last October 31^st was the most terrific that could happen.  Four girls died and one is in the hospital, in a really critical situation.

  Everything started in the club “Madrid Arena”. There was supposed to be a big party, with the famous dj Steve Aoki. But all the signs are that the organization that was responsible of the event sold almost the double of tickets that they could sell. There were around 15.000 people in one club for 9.000, and the result was catastrophic.

  Suddenly, someone fired an illumination flare in the club, and everyone wanted to get out at the same time.  But the problem was that there were too much people, and according to the witnesses, just one exit was opened.  It produced an avalanche of people, and the result was, three girls died because of the crushing, two girls seriously injured (one of them died three days later), and lots of people fainted and moderate injured.

  The three girls who died there were 18, and their names were Katia Esteban, Cristina Arce and Rocío Oña. The girl who died three days after was Belén Langdon, and she was 17. The several injured girl who is still at the hospital, is María Teresa Alonso, and she is 20. Doctors say that, even if she gets survive, she will have consequences forever.

Spain is appalled with the horrible news, because it happened because of the organization´s irresponsibility. It is shameful how they acted selling more tickets they could, and of course, the tragic new has to make people react. Something similar happened in Germany in 2010, and this can´t happen again.

Rocío Oña, Cristina Arce and Katia Esteban

  As a result of the incompetence and the negligence of the club and the awful organization, four innocent girls lost their life in the most tragic Halloween that Spain has lived. They just wanted to go to the concert to see their idol, and they couldn´t come back never.