Monsters are Due on Maple Street

"The mob pick the most dangerous enemy they can find...and it's themselves." I think that this message means that they were the most dangerous enemies because of the way they tried to solve their problems. The way the residednts tried to solve the problem of the blackout was trying to find a scapegoat in the group. Everyone was blaming other people without knowing who was the responsable of the strange things that were happening. The aliens said that they could leave them in there and let them destroy themselves one to the other. So the real monsters were themselves. Also the Narrator's Voice said,"There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attidudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men." I think this is the answer that the world is full of Maple Streets because the monsters are created in the inside of the men.

I agree with the message because when you are in those situations most people go "crazy." They go crazy because they start to blame each other without having evidence that he or she is the responsable of the problem. I think that the message of this story still has significance in today's world because it can influence people to calm down and try to solve their problems in a peacefull way to prevent more and more problems. An example in today's world is with Colombia and the "Guerilla." We haven't solve that problem and get to an agreement. Also when terrorists crashed the airplanes to the Twin Towers.

If this story could be updated it would be more realistic. It would be more realistic because it would be at my time which I know what is happening in the world around me. So the little kids would understand the message of the story more because they don't what happened in 1960. People don't have much evidences that can prove that there are aliens traveling in the space. The equipment that would be affected if the story is updated wouldn't be as the ones that were affected back in 1960. It wouldn't be affected as much because now we have more technology and in some places were there is a blackout they use their electric plant. Maybe the portable things could be damaged but you never know, technology keeps growing. Aplace that would be interesting for this story to happen is in a big city with more people and there would more suspense. Tommy could know about aliens using internet or new books that have knowledge about the few evidences that we have about aliens.

Copa Moya...

Last Thursday, October 26, the Copa Moya began. The Copa Moya is tournament that is made every year and high and middle school play it. The school invites other seven schools to make two groups each with four teams. First we need to play with all the teams in our group. An then the best two teams of each group pass to the semifinals. We already played a game with a school called Abolsure and we lost 2-0. I think that we didn´t played very well that match because it was a school that we had never played before so we didn´t knew how do they play and because it was raining a little that day so some persons were sliping including me. Our goalkeeper that day was Rich, from eight grade, and I think that he played really good that day. He use his basketball abilities to catch the balls that reached him.

Another thing was that the other team was really good. I played the second half that day and for me I didn´t played very good because I didn´t put all of my effort. At the end of the match our coach told us that our next match was on Saturday in the morning and we were going to play vs a school called Real Cartagena. And in that match I was going to try to put all of my effort.

Saturday came and my dad took me to the schoo. In there I saw that Miguel,Julian, Augusto,Farid, and Daniel were already there. We were bored so we decided to go the Olimpica to buy something. When we arrived to the Olimpica the only who buyed something was Miguel so the we went and we didn´t buy anything. I didn´buy because I had breakfast just before that. When we were supposed to play the match we notice that the other team didn´t came. Our coach divided the team in two, Team A and Team B. I was in Team B. The coach told me that he wanted to prove me like the creator of my team and my real positon was forward but I do what my coach said. My team played very well the first half but in the second they scored us a goal. Eventhough we lost 1-0,I was proud of me because I made a great shot from outside of the are and the ball was going drectly to the angle, but Rich reached it. I think that we aren´t going to do bad on this cup but I also think that we are not going to do very good.

Campito 2010,One of The Most Visited Places in Cartagena

Last year some people built the Campito 2010. It is a covered field with artificial grass. To be able to play in this place you need to make a reservation to see what hours they have and you need to pay. It costs 90.000 pesos per hour and you need to pay depending in the persons who go.The reason in which you need to pay that price is because they need to maintain the grass and other things. This place has an office, bathrooms, and a store were they sale drinks and food. One thing that I like about this place is that when you are going to play you can pick the shirt of a team in the world. That is very cool because yo can play the major classics in the world like FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid, Boca Juniors vs River Plate and many more. Me and my friends are fans of this place so we know all the workers in there. Since we go a lot of times to this place, the workers let us pay less then the real price.

I love the artificial grass because if you fell down it doesn´t hurts. It is really good for the goalkeepers because they need to be jumping everytime. The ball only goes out when it pass the line of the goal, that is because the rest of the field is surrounded by a 1 meter wall. This place is very cool because they organize a lot of tournaments for different ages. I recomend this place for everybody because of all the things it has and becase it is a nice place to pass a great time with your friends.

(Short Story) Friday Night Problem

In a night of the Friday, October 20, 2006, Jose was trying to find out what he was going to do that night. He wanted to do something at night like all the Fridays. So he called andres to organized the plan. After several rings, Andres picked up the phone.
"What are we going to do tonight?," Jose asked Andres.
"I don´t know lets go to Mc Donalds,"said Andres with a not nice tone.
No, lets go to another place because we always go to Mc Donalds. Lets go to Crepes and Waffles,"proposed Jose.
Andres responded, "Then why do you want my opinion. I will go and pick you up at 7:00PM." Jose said, "Ok."

At 7:00, Andres went to pick up Jose and they went inmediatly to Crepes and Waffles. When they arrived they saw an empty table and they went to it.

Then the waitress came and said, "Hi my name is Rosa, here is the menu."
Then she asked Andres,"What are you going to eat?"
Andres answered,"I am going to eat a grilled chicken and I hope it comes well cooked."
Then Rosa asked Jose in a nervously way because of the way Andres responded her.Jose said, "I would like that too please."

After ten minutes the food came. Jose started cutting it and he ate his first bite. Then Andres ate his first one and looked with anger to Rosa.
Then he said, "I told you that I wanted the chicken well cooked and you do the opposite."
Then Rosa answered, "But, but I bring it and it was very hot."
Jose said, "Mines is good and it is the way I wanted to it to be."
Then Andres said with a high voice," You see, you see why do his food is well cooked and mines isn´t, why?. Here people are stupid and don´t know how to do anything, not even to attend clients the way they want. I am going to make a demand to this place for its bad service." All the people in the restaurant was staring at Andres.

Andres seemed to want to make the life impossible to the poor Rosa. He kept shouting to Rosa and saying that she didn´t knew how to do nothing and that she was an ignorant.
Jose said, "Please Andres this is not so bad for you to be shouting to inocent people and saying that you are going to demand this place just for a little problem."
Andres said,"No, it is a big problem,I come here to have a good time,to talk,and to eat good food and the first thing that they do is giving the food not the way I wanted it to be." Rosa was very scared and she looked like she was going to cry.

"But Andres calm down please, look all the persons are looking at us as we were crazy people. We can solve this problem in a peacefull way," said Jose.
Andres kept shouting as if he was ignoring Jose.
He said, " But how do these things happen and why does it happens to me."
Jose was starting to loose his pacience.
Then he said,"But listen to me, you need to calm down please, it is not good to be shouting to people because then you are going to be without friends.Look at Rosa she is almost crying and you are shouting to her." Then Rosa started to cry.

The noise reach to the office of Jorge, the restaurant manager. Then he came to table were tha problem was and he saw that Rosa was crying.
He asked her," Why are you crying?"
She answered,"Because I am going to loose my job."
Then Jorge asked her," But why are you going to loose your job, what have you made?"
Andres said, " I can explain you what happened."
Jorge said, " Lets go to my office and you tell me." When they arrived to the office they sat down in some seats and Andres started telling him that Rosa didn´t gave him the food well cooked and he told her that he wanted the food like that.
Jorge said, " We can solve this problem right now."

Jorge told Rosa to cook Andres´food and told Andres that if he wanted his food more cooked, he only needed to asked the the waitress if she can cook it a little bit more so we don´t get more problems. He also told Andres that he needed to be calmer when he is solving problems and Andres agreed with that. Then Rosa came with the food and Andres apologized with her. He told her that he was the stupid for shouting at her and he said that he was not going to do it again.After that he ate his food and learn the lesson that he needed to treat others as he wanted others to treat him.

A Horrible Trip

In one summer, one of my dad´s friends invite all the family to his island in Baru. (1)The day that we were going I packed my shoes, my clothes, my soccerball, and my mosquito repelent. (2)When we arrived to the harbor were the boat was, I realized that the boat was little, dirty, and without an strong engine. (3)My dad told me that it wasn't really an island in the open sea, he told me that we could get there by boat, by car, or by any other thing. (4)While we were on the way, the boat jumped, it produce a strange sound, and it was very slow.

I was very hungry so I started to search for some food. (5)Under the seat, there were some potatoe chips. Let me tell you something, those chips were very old. I had a horrible stomachache for the rest of the way. (6)A kid telling stupid jokes, bored me. (7)Whenever I eat something old, I go directly to the bathroom. (8)Yes, it was a horrible trip but a funny experience.

1-series of objects
2-series of modifiers
3-series of phrases
4-series of independent clauses
5- prepositional phrase
6- participial phrase
7- adverb clause
8- yes, no, or interjection

Montoya´s First Race In His New Season

In the afternoon of the day of Friday, October the 6th, the exformula 1, Juan Pablo Montoya made his first race in the US ARCA Series. These series are raced in a kind of cars type stock. Montoya arrived in third place on the Talladega track. He said that he had never had so much fun in his life of racing. The only thing he was frightened about is that he was always in danger.

The race was stopped when it had 14 laps more to go,due to the darkness in the track. Eventhough Montoya´s car was the best, he had two riders of his same racing team,Chip Ganassi Racing, infront of him. Montoya started second and his first lap he passed the first racer, Bobby Gerhart, in his number 4 Dodge.

He was at the command for 9 laps before Gerhart and another group passed beside him. After that he went to third place and stayed there. Then a car started to turn and it crashed at a corner of Montoya´s car and caused some damages. After that crashed he went to pits to fixed it.
I think that Montoya did really well on his first race in these cars and I am sure that he is going to do well for the rest of the season.

A House Problem

I have different ways to deal with my problems. An example is that we can say that we both sorry and we forget the problem or we can get to an agreement in which we both don't say or do thingd that will hurt him. When I need to solve a problem and I am under pressure we could solve it fast by adding fast solutions like they are not going to do or say tings that hurt each other. If the conflict is severe we could go to see an adult or a mature person that can help us fix the problem.Sometimes when I am trying to solve a prblem I use bad habits like fighting or telling each other bad words.

A problem that I remembered is when I was in my house with my brother and I was going to do my homework. Then my brother arrived and he turned on the T.V. I told him that I was going to do my homework and he needed to turn off. He didn't wanted to turn off because few days before, he was reading a book in the room and I entered the room and started making noise. So it was like the payback day. I got very angry and we started to fight. Then my mother and my older brother came to separate us. We made a mistake trying to solve that problem because we didn't gave strategies to solve the problem so we fought. We started to fight because I was very angry and he was bothering me.After that my mom grounded us for a week. Then I apologized with my brother and we made an agrrement that if someone needed to do a homework, he needed to do it on other part.