1. Week One

1. Week One

Tell about a terrifying experience that you had when you were young

It occurred in 2004 when I lived in Spain. I studied in the afternoon and I was each  morning in my home. Approximately one week during the morning, a man touched the principal bell of my building where I lived. I answered the handset from my apartment such as my neighbor, and a man told us “I am who repaired the elevator!”, and I felt afraid about his voice… But this situation repeated every day and I never opened the door, but my neighbor, who was an older women, she always answered. The next week, the bell of my building didn't sound more. I thought, “The problem with the elevator is already solved” and I forgot this situation. One day, I was showing a program in TV called “Occurred in Madrid”, that was a special program the real history in the city, and the woman was talking about a man that touched the door of the building and he say “I am who repaired the elevator” and if someone woman answered and she was alone in home, he asked her to open the door and he entered in the building, disconnected the light where the women lived and then he touched the door of her apartment to enter inside. Then, the men robbed in her home. When I saw that history, I remembered that man who touched in my building some week ago and I felt afraid again. But I forgot this. Two day later, I found my neighbor in the door of my building, she was an older woman and I told her hello and she told me that I needed to take care because was dangerous, then I remembered that this history and the television program and I told her about my complete history… That was my surprise, the woman of the television program was my neighbor!!!!, she told me that she called to this program called “Occurred in Madrid” and told them her history because she wanted to avoid repeat the same history with others people. I felt really afraid, because I asked me: What could have happened if I had opened the door that day? …

   

Project 5. My travel

My exotic travel with my backpack

I was a student when I arrive to Spain. When I was studying, I did a travel around North of Spain.

I had a date to go, but I didn’t have a date for come back, I took my backpack with the necessary things and I set out on amazing adventure to North of Spain from Madrid.  My friend from Madrid gives me a ticket for the concert of U2 in Barcelona.

This was my destiny in this moment, but last the concert my idea was travel for all the North of Spain without to know how many days and what places I would visit.  I believed that the travel during about the three days, but this was not so.

My first stop was Barcelona, I had never been in Barcelona before and I went to the U2 concert and I was here for 2 night more.  Barcelona was beautiful!! Its architecture, streets, museums, people, restaurants, and its beaches. 

My next stop was Zaragoza, I got a bus to this city and I found a beautiful place. I knew the Basilica-Cathedral of our Lady of the Pilar, it is one of the most important basilica in Spain.

In this moment, I didn’t know what was my next stop, but I look at the bus station what buses were and I bought a ticket to Pamplona and visited all this small city.  In this city I call my friend’s friends because I has the number phone of them.  I didn’t know them but that it was an opportunity to know them.

I call then and we did a new travel for all the beaches of the coastal North in their van. This van has a kitchen inside, that experience was amazing. We cook in the van and we went for whole the beautiful beaches during one week.  We came back to Pamplona and I set out the next day to Lakabe alone again.

Lakabe was an ecological village of about 30 people, and you could visit it while you could learn about to made bread, agriculture, ecologic cuisine.  Every day, they asked us what activity do we preferred to do.  In this place has a piano and my principal activity was play the piano, ;) but I cut tomatoes in the garden too and others activities.

At that time, it had already pass about two week since I set out from Madrid… but my travel didn’t finished.

I kept on to Ariskuren, that was other ecological village of about 15 people, they was least organization than Lakabe, but that was amazing place too because it was in the hill mountains of the Pyrenees Spanish.  I helped them with activities in the village too, for example, in the repair of the light in the store and other things in the garden.

I came back to Madrid two week and ones days more with my backpack and with a big smile in my face. That was a travel without plan.  I knew me more, I felt me more and enjoyed it. I did wonderful friends and they are my best friends now, since 2005 when I set out on amazing adventure alone with my backpack.

Project 4: Survival in Africa

7 days in the jungle of Africa

I need the following thing for my survival for 7 days in the jungle of Africa.

1.      Backpack: Of size medium for put inside the things that I need.

2.      Knife: For to cut the vegetal food. I will eat vegetal food.

3.      Two t-shirt: for change my dress.

4.      Socks: for change my dress.

5.      Canned food: This is necessary for me and to complete my diet.

6.      Lantern with two batteries extra: I’ll need this during at night.

7.      Small camping tent: I’ll need this during the night for to sleep.

8.      Pyrotechnics fires: I’ll need this for to scare wild animals.

9.      Burner: for turn on fire and to heat the food.

10.  Small medical kit: with the basic medicine needed.

11.  Banana: If the monkeys attack me, I change with them my banana…

12.  Sleeping bag: For sleeping.