viernes, 27 de mayo de 2011

A l l A l o n e ~

When she left her house, she thought that it would just be another day, one of those irrelevant days, when it doesn’t matter if you get up or stay in bed.
 She opened the door, and looked to the sky, and the sun hit her in the face, even though it was freezing.
She walked to the bus stop. The floor was still wet because of last night’s rain, so she walked carefully looking to the floor.  She kept walking and waited for the bus, while listening to some band that her boyfriend recommended her, but she didn’t like at all.
She kept waiting, and started getting impatient. Twenty minutes passed, then thirty, and an hour, but there weren’t signals of the bus, or a car, there wasn’t any movement, and she couldn’t see anyone.
She started to worry, it was 7 am on a Tuesday, and there wasn’t a single person. She wondered, “Where is everybody?” She looked every way; there weren’t cars, persons or animals. She closed her eyes, took off her headphones and listened. The only sound that she could hear was her breathing and her heart beat.
She shouted “Where is everybody? HELLO!” until she couldn’t speak anymore. She ran, and kept shouting and screaming, but no one answered. The streets were desert.
 The sun was hidden by black clouds, and a droplet of rain fell on her face. She started to cry, and kept walking, hoping that any human or living bean came to her. But still, no one came.
She started wondering, “What happened to everybody?”, and she felt like she was in one of those movies where the world ends after some kind of cataclysm, but NOTHING had happened, this was unexplainable.
She started to run again, but the floor was wet, and she fell.
She opened her eyes. It was still dark. She looked at her cell phone; it was 4: 20 am. She turned away, and fell asleep again. 

jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011

First entry

Well, this is my first entry.
The first thing that I'm going to talk about is Hidroaysén.
Hidroaysén is a really polemic Hidroelectric proyect, that will be built in Patagonia. The centrals will be built in Baker river and also Pascua river.
This proyect was aproved on may 9th by government authorities. Since that day, hundreds of people had been manifesting their rejection to this proyect, by going to several parades against Hidroaysén.
Last friday, I went to one of this parades with Martín Loyola to express our rejection to the proyect, we marched from Plaza Italia to La moneda. The parade began around 7 and it ended around 9. It was pacific, we shouted and jumped and had a good time, but we also reflectioned about this proyect and how it will affect our country. After all of this, some people started throwing rocks at the police, so the disturbs began. The police started to chase people and throwing water and tear-bombs. We had to run because they didn't care for the people that weren't making disturbs, they repressed everybody, even people that wasn't on the parade.
After running for a while, we stopped by a Mcdonald's so we could catch our breath and drink a soda, but the disturbs keep going, and when we got out, the police throwed a bomb right outside of where we were. Yeah, it hurts. My eyes were bloodshot and I teared. It was hard to breath.
Then we walked a lot to get in the subway, because a lot of the stations were closed.
Though we had to ran and everything, it was a very nice experience, it was the first time that I went to this kind of parade and I'm proud of being there.
Hidroaysén is just unnecesary, it will destroy so many nature, and damage so many people, besides, the mayority is against it.