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Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
Thursday, March 3, 2011
READING : Mudslides ruin Bolivian capital Residents manage to escape “worst disaster” in their history
Rescue teams on Tuesday continued
to salvage
what they
could in more than a half a dozen
neighborhoods
in the Bolivian capital of La Paz following
last weekend’s devastating mudslide,
a disaster being described
as the worst in the country’s history.
More than 4,000 people have
been affected by the mudslides,
which were brought on by the
torrential rains that have pounded the
country for several
months. La Paz Mayor Louis Revilla
said that the mudslides occurred in
areas east and south of
the capital.
In eight neighborhoods,
more than 250 homes were completely
destroyed. Residents,
who had been evacuated beforehand, came back to their homes
and picked through the damage
hoping to salvage whatever they
could find of their belongings.
On Saturday, entire homes,
paved streets and playgrounds
were literally washed away by
tons of mud. A cemetery in the
La Paz neighborhood Valle de
las Flores was split in two.
Miraculously no one was reported injured or killed in the
mudslide. According to the La
Paz daily La Razón, neighbors
began contacting each other in
an effort to escape before the disaster took place. More than 200
volunteers have been mobilized
to the affected areas to help
clear the mess and start the rebuilding process.
On Sunday, President Evo Mo-
rales visited the disaster areas.
His vice president, Álvaro
García Linera, pledged that the
government would help victims
recover. “Many of you have lost
the homes that you spent so
much time and effort building,
and I want to tell you that we
are not going to abandon you,”
the Bolivian news agency ABI
quoted him as saying.
SOURCE: http://www.elpais.com/misc/herald/herald.pdf
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