2005 Spring semester. These are the stories of the students in

Advanced English 3.

UNTITLEDArantxa Guillén Mendoza

The house of the old lady was surrounded by the police and lots of curious people. The old lady was found crying in a corner of his room, and repeating "what have I done to deserve this?" over and over again like a crazy person.The next day all newspaper said the same "Mark was found death and the old lady become crazy, the police don’t have any clue about the mysterious murder, but they are making there best to find the responsible."Two days had passed and nobody seems to know anything about Mark’s death, people of Georgia’s town decided to help the police to find the responsible of the murder. That night they all go throw the streets to search some clues, hours later John appeared with a gun in his hands with one bullet, He said he found it at the forest. At the next day they take the gun to the police and they were surprised when that clue appeared.At the next day they take the gun to the police and they were surprised when that clue appeared. The police were surprised when they found that the gun was shoot by Mary, ¡The old lady was responsible for the dead of his own son!.When he police go to see Mary, they found her standing next to the bed with the same gun repeating "Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops" over and over again, they tried to stop the old lady, but they did not get to far, Mary shoot her self in the head.Nobody knows how does the gun appeared from the police station to the old lady’s hand, the police declared that the old lady was responsible for her sons death and his own.There was nothing but silence at the streets of Georgia town, they were all sleeping, suddenly a terrible sound wake up the town, it was the sound of a gun. All the people except kids go throw the night to find the cause of that terrible sound, they search for hours but they didn’t find anything.The next day at the morning a scream was heard all over the town: "My son!!!” were the words the old lady said that morning and repeated all

"MY GENIUS" MOZARTCarlos Rodríguez Coutiño

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a young prodigious in music. Been born in Augsburgo in 14 of November of 1719, Mozart received in the school of the Jesuits a solid humanist formation, as well as musical, since he conscientiously learned the bases of the violin, the composition and the counterpoint. In his 18 years, he was transferred to Salzburg to study theology in the prestigious university of this Austrian population, the enormous passion that he felt by the music art, made him very soon to leave his studies. At a early age, he created works of high quality range, as his six Sonata in trio.In the baptismal battery, he received the name of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart, both first, he didn’t use them in all his life; as far as the last one, Theophilus quickly was transformed into Gottlieb, its equivalent one to German and later in Amadeus, Latin translation of this one. Therefore, his final complete name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At a very early age, as much Wolfgang as his older sister demonstrated a singular capacity of assimilation of the musical language. Towards year 1760, when Wolfgang was four years old, his father gave him the first lessons of harpsichord, following this way the education that occurred already to its sister. Then, Mozart left his music career, because he started a career like an educator, for the education of his two children. His elevated sense of responsibility becomes evident in the letters that he left written and which he talked about his smaller son. If Mozart’s father dedicated as much time to his son formation it was because he wanted to make him a prodigious son. The musical education that received Wolfgang was most shining, as it can be deduced of the results of his production. Wolfgang and Constanza. Also a great number of its works was published.The conjugal life of the young couple was happy during the nine years that the marriage lasted, and only the death of Wolfgang, managed to end a union that in spite of the many problems that appeared.The opera continued being the most interesting genre to Mozart. The work was the one in charge, next to another one of Antonio Salieri, composer of the music court, for a visit that had to make the governor of the Austrian Netherlands. Little later it was discovered that Mozart didn’t like any work of the Italian musicians, even accused Salieri to have caused his death, which is totally erroneous since he constitutes one of the romantic legend of the XIX.In Conclusion, I can say that Mozart was the biggest genius in the history, because he was a teacher and also a perfect musician, Mozart, was so prodigious because the education that his father gave him since he was a baby. His father taught him how to play some musical instruments, so that made that Mozart could develop a kind of love for the music. The music genre that was the most of his interest, was the Opera.

Mozart, when he married with Constanza, he had 2 children, and he remembered how his father made him learn how to play musical instruments. So he wanted to make the same process, to make his sons prodigious.

ADVENTURE IN CANADACarlos E. Morales Hernández

Once upon a time a fanatical person to the adventures his name is Carlos (me). I thought that everything was going to be easy but it was not thus, I was going to happen through many problems, but everything was cool an unexpected an episode of my life.This story talk about my adventures, the best places visited with my friend and problems that I had to arrive at this beautiful country...I could not believe the amount of problems that I was going to take, if I had known the problems that were going to have, I had not gone ha!. I still remember the number of flight, so that this was very difficult to find line of the plane. My problems began when a young lady gave me a paper about the money that I had and more thing, anyone knows that all in the airplane are Mexican. After hours I arrived at the airport, I was very happy, but at the same time very worried. Firstly I picked up my suitcase, then I thought that it was everything, I went towards the exit where were police. I gave to this police the paper . The police caught my arm, and she said migration!!, migration!! I said... why? What happened... they are going to deport me, ha-ha.later I went to migration and everything was well. I went with the police, she smiled to me and she said to me: you can go!.Oh right ha, then I looked for my friend and I found him, I was very exciting because I had achieved the success.I was in Vancouver B.C. about 15 days. I Liked very much this city, the beach, people, buildings, we visited the downtown, we atepizza for save some of money.One occasion we rented 2 bicycles for to meet city. After we went to the beach with a great landscape and pretty girls. We left the bicycles with padlock, we met all the beach and the sea park. After a time we returned for go to other this place, but my friend can not open that. We try for 10 minutes but we can not. A boy brought toward us and he said: This is my bike.. this is my bike, I was confused but we said: this bike is us, the boy said that he was going to bring police. Then my friend went to the store where we had rented the bicycles, whereas I was hoping there... the young person could open the bicycle and he said to us that it was our bicycle. A great experience of this problem was of which the boy thought that we were robbing the bicycle and he wanted to scare to us and if obtained it ha-ha....

After knowing the city of Vancouver I went to the city where my friend was born. I was in bus, whereas my friend in airplane. The objective to go in truck was to know the city I didn’t know the distance between Vancouver and Vernon, whenever the bus stopped, I thought that I had arrived. In one of those stopped and I thought that we had arrived and I lowered of the bus then the bus went away and I looked above and said: “Welcome to Kelowna”... oohh noo!! I ran behind the bus and I could reach it. The driver said me that he was cleaning the bus and the destiny following !Vernon... I was calmer and hoped. I arrived at the house and I knew all the family of my friend. I remember this night we went to play billiard. The time passed vey fast. One day family’s quique and me were to play paintball about the game, Jennifer said to me that I put much clothes I did not put sufficient clothes and we entered the game with a helmet and a pistol. This was very exciting, we played much and at night everybody were tired and pain in all the body.The next day, I knew the friends of Enrique, everybody were cool people and at night we went to a bar and to the beach.In the bar, I had a problem, because I had 18 years old and the minimum age to enter is 19. I could enter without problems at the bar. After hours arrives Police at the moment that I saw to their I was waiting for get out of this place, the Police had 2 alternatives: the fist go away to the right or the left. Luckily the Police went to the left and I could leave, also I saw many people get our of this place. Yeah this day was very exciting!!!....The city is small and I reached to know it. Generally every night we were going to play billiards and also to go to a bar to drink beer and later to a Seven eleven to have a supper.During the lasts day I amused much, but I would have to go from return to Mexico. I went in airplane towards Vancouver, I arrived in short time, my problem was At the moment of arriving from airplane, The place of international lines to be able to take my Other airplane towards Mexico. I could Arrive on time at the airplane and took the Flight for my country.After hours I arrived at Mexico City very happy

UNTITLEDCinthia Cruz Marcelín

In a place of Egypt, to be more precise in the Cairo; it was a small farm where a couple lived; Mr. Frank and Mrs. Anna. They were very poor, maybe because they had to live with their harvest, but the place was a few dry and things didn’t grow well.One day there was a knock, knock! on the door. Mr. Frank opened it, and it was a woman who looked very old and mysterious. She commented him that she had been walking most of the day, and she was very hungry, so she asked Mr. Frank to give her something to eat. Mrs. Frank was a little scared but Mrs. Anna was very kind and she convinced him to let the woman come in to eat a delicious soup that she had cooked.The woman was very grateful with them. “You have been most kind,” said the woman. “I will grant you three wishes.” She remember the couple to used their wishes wisely, because each wish would come true. The couple didn’t understand what was happening, and the only they could said was “Thank you”. The woman suggested to them to trust and then she left the farm.As soon as the woman was outside the door they talked about what had happened. But what understand Mrs. Anna didn’t about this was why the woman was able to grant them wishes and she wasn’t able to appear food for her. Frank was trying to understand what was happening, and he told her, that if they didn’t try to wish something they would never know what was happening. They were imagining all the things they could have if the woman said the true to them. They didn’t stop dreaming, but they were scare about what could happen.Then, what they were going to do was agreed. They decided to let one wish for each one, and the other would be chosen by the two together. They were very happy, because maybe it would be the first time they would have come true what they always have dream.For most of the day, Mr. Frank and Mrs. Anna talked about the three wishes they would make. They talked long after it was time to eat again, and they forgot to cook, and they began to get very hungry. By the time Mrs. Anna made soup again, they were extremely hungry. As they sat down to eat, Mr. Frank mentioned to Mrs. Anna that the thing most he want about life was a sausage to go with the soup.And suddenly there on the table was a great big brown sausage! “Oh, Frank! There goes your wish! And we have only one sausage!” Said Mrs. Anna. “I wish we had many, many sausages.” And that was Anna’s wish. So, in one second… PUM, PUM, PUM! Great big sausages rained down on them. They were ducking and trying to get the sausages off them, so they preferred to hide under the table.Anna was crying and she shouted “Enough! Frank, get the sausages off me!” But Mr. Frank was also fighting against the sausages and he couldn’t get the sausages off her! The sausages didn’t stop falling down and they didn’t know what to do.

Mr. Frank thought that eat them would be a good idea. Mr. Anna was angry, because she didn’t find that funny. But her wish and Frank’s wish had already gone, so they only have the last wish. So they agreed to wish that the sausages go away.Just as they had come, the sausages went away. There were no sausages anywhere! The big sausage was also gone from the table. And finally, Mr. Frank and Mrs. Anna were very sad at the table with only the soup to eat. They didn’t have any more wishes, but in spite of the fact that they were happy, Mrs. Anna just was asking herself what would have happened if they had planned their wishes. But Mr. Frank wished not to see a sausage for a long time!

THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND

Diego Emilio Cuesy Edgar

Damn! You know nothing, you hear nothing, you are laid down in a black space with no beginning and no end. You ask yourself what has happened but your mind is blank. Then, a sudden beat. What was it?.. again, another beat. Now you know something, it is your heart beating, you feel the air, your lungs get full and your heart continues beating. You scream and wake up.Two nights before.You start getting bored. Looking around, inhaling the smoke, people talk to you but you just don’t care, you begin to get annoyed and just want to get away. I’m feeling dizzy - you tell your friends. All those faces you keep watching, smiles, people dancing with lights that just make you mad. You don’t know why but you feel the need to go, it’s something you cannot explain. You must get out of there. You stand up and without saying good bye, you just walk away. Your friends make a bad face to you, they don’t know what happened but the truth is you don’t either.You walk, and walk. Without a path you just walk. The music is fading, then you stop hearing it. The street has no end. The night gets cold, you get more and more calmed. There is no sound but your steps in the wet pavement. You have walked for hours and already lost the sense of time and space. Ring.... ring.... You look around and don’t see a thing. When the will to keep walking comes to you, a red phone cabin is there. How didn’t you see it before? How stupid. It keeps ringing.– Hello? – Yeh it’s me. Huh?.Minutes have passed and you keep talking. It’s a strong voice. A voice you have known since you were born but have never heard. Never talked to it. You clean up your sweat with your shirt. It’s hot and your face and body is covered in cold sweat. You see the mist

outside, and the wet glass. – See you later. – I always see you. – Bye. You hung up and get out.You feel tense, confused. But in a certain way you feel a relief, finally it happened. It’s the thing you’ve always wanted to hear. Excitement fills your body but confusion consumes you. You turn back your head and the cabin is gone, you just see mist there, you laugh.You look at your watch and you realize it has stopped. Also you realize you haven’t seen a single person in the time you’ve been out. You keep walking, and walking. Your legs start feeling heavy, you can’t walk anymore. You feel tired, anxious... It’s about to happen. You sit down and look to the sky. It’s completely black without a single cloud. You take off your shoes, your jacket and your shirt. You lay down in the middle of the wet street. When you close your eyes you make a deep breath. And everything stops. It’s all black. It’s all nonsense. You don’t exist anymore.Two nights after.Your own scream awakes you. Was it yours?. No it was mine. Ours. We see a blurry shadow walking away. It turns his head back and it is you. It was you. We stand up and look around. A bark we hear. A black dog is starring at us showing his harmful teeth. Look at him – Why? – You are me now. The dog receives our sight. He backs up and cries. How? – Idiot, we need to continue. A dove appears, a white beautiful dove that you find disgusting. We find it disgusting. We just want to kill it, listening to me carefully. It dies. This is what you wanted – No I didn’t – Now you want because you are me – I do.Let’s go, there’s no time. We keep going. There’s a tunnel. We enter there and you feel rush. Its a rush you’ve never felt before. You have felt something since you woke up. You feel in the air, pleased. Happy. Your eyes start to itch. You laugh. I am still with you, don’t worry... I’ll always be there, I’ve always been there.There’s a window. You see a city, with no people. There’s a door; you can’t enter, its locked. There’s a hole. You see through it and see your own completely white eye. Has this tunnel an end? Shut up! It does have an end. The place where everyone goes.A baby cries. A child plays the ball. A young man hangs out with his friends. He dies. And the story repeats. You get annoyed. All those voices. Shut up! Shut up! – Get used to them, they are you, you are me now. This is your path, your home.I’m tired of you, you are scum, We will stop being one, But we will someday, again.You start feeling awful, your body hurts, your skin is burning, you have a headache and you think your head is about to explode, your muscles don’t work, you start moving nowhere, running, screaming. You can’t breath, you are choking yourself. I didn’t want this, get out, get out! – I will keep an eye on you, as I’ve always been. Is that you are not prepared now.You open your eyes and you find yourself in a tunnel, there are cars around you, faces you know. You stand up and you see a red cabin next to you. The phone rings and you answer. Hello? – It’s me again. – The first thing that came to my mind was you. Was it really you? – Look around, it’s always me.You are yourself again. People call you, they hug you. They shake your shoulders. You just smile and a little girl tells you. “It’s always you, it has always been you and it will be always you”.

A GHOST IN MY BEDROOMErick Flores Villalobos

This story happened to me a long time ago, like 5 years I think. It all started when I returned from a party, but I was like 11 years old so it was one of my first parties. I returned so tired that I went to my bedroom and I fell asleep with all my clothes on, my shoes, my jeans and a shirt, I remember I was so tired that I didn’t even brushed my teeth.When I was in the middle of my dream, I started to feel something weird, like if someone was in the bedroom with me, but I thought it was one of my brothers, so it didn’t scared me. But when I realized that whoever was in my bedroom didn’t moved at all, I started to get frightened.And when I opened my eyes, I saw something black just in the corner of my bedroom, next to my bed, and for some reason, I couldn’t move. I was so scared that I thought it was only a nightmare, but I realized that I was awake and there was something weird in my bedroom.When I finally conclude that I was seeing a ghost, I tried to scream so my family could hear me, but no words came out of my mouth, I was only hearing and watching all. There is when that strange shadow started to talk.The ghost was saying some strange things, honestly I didn’t understand a word of what it was telling me, I tried to ran away or to yell but somehow I was still paralyzed.After it stopped speaking, I felt that something was pushing my back with a lot of strength, like if it was trying to hurt me and I couldn’t breathe, then it just stopped pushing and finally I could move. I remember after all happened I went to my parent’s bedroom and I stayed awake all night.The next day, I told my parents what happened to me, but they didn’t believe me, they thought that I was drunk or I only wanted attention, but what happened to me is truth, because other people has experienced this before. Somebody told me it happened to me because I did something bad or maybe my house was haunted.Now I have get over with that scary day, but I happened to me again like 2 months ago, so I think something is wrong with my bedroom, maybe it is really haunted, but that is my story, believe it or not I tell you it is truth, and I am considering changing my bedroom.

CLAN WARSEsteban Cruz Silva

We don’t know where they come from, also how many they are…The only thing that we know is that they are powerful, and they came here to destroy us.I don’t understand how they found us, because every 4 months we are leaving a system to jump to another to establish a new base, running from our enemies.We are numerous, and we had the firepower to destroy their fleet, but we don’t have the skills they had on the battle-field.Andrew KovoskyThe new recruits were young and stupid; they even had the ability to find the difference between an R-S5 and a Lighting-bold, which is imperative in the battle-field.Many of the new recruits were waiting on the hangar for their positions, because not all of them will be mechwarriors, many of them would fail the exam, and they will stay as infantry of marines, or tank operators. As all of them were waiting, Leo was more interested on the new cargo that arrived on the morning.He was checking the new mechs that arrived with cargo, which they were two vultures, three cougars and one Mad Cat, which was his favorite, because the powerful armor and the greatest firepower that it carries. He immediately remembers that he must be on the hangar in place of checking the new mechs. He began to run the fastest he can. But when he arrived, the captain was already there and had already done the final exam to the new recruits. Leo had lost his only chance to become a mechwarrior… He sits down on the floor, breathing with sadness.When all the recruits were returning to their barracks, a Hugh explosion get out from the control tower, all the recruits look to the sky and the saw thousands of HUD missiles falling from the sky. It was an enemy attack…They don’t have any chance to run for their live, when the missiles touched the floor, the recruits were flying on the sky, and the buildings were destroyed in an eye blink.When Leo heard the explosions, he come out from the Hangar, at the time he was leaving, missiles were entering on the Hangar. Leo flied to the sky, falling 10 meters away from the hangar. When he stands up, he looks behind him only to discover the ruins of the Hangar. Above from the hangar’s ruins, three fighters rise to the sky, escaping from the burning base.Leo can’t believe that all his efforts to join to the Claws clan, where destroy in a blink of eyes. He was furious… He runs with all his forces to the cargo bay, before the enemy destroys it. When he reached the bay, he climbed onto the Mad Cat, he turned on the mech engine, when he went outside, missiles were getting inside of the complex, all blew up… An assault mech rises from the horizon, the mech get close to the burning bay, it stops in front of the building, looking what he destroy, nut in that moment, a shadow rises from the fire, it was a mech, it was Leo, when both mechs looks at their face, they began to attack each other, but the Javelin missiles of Leo’s Mad Cat, destroy immediately the enemy mech. Leo’s mech run outside of the burning base, when it get out, there where

waiting him a bunch of tanks, they began to attack, but the tanks attacks doesn’t damage Leo’s Mech, in a furious attack, the Mad Cat laser destroy the enemy tanks, 2 enemy mechs began to attack Leo from both sides, but Leo were faster, and he destroy them in less of 2 minutes. When all the enemies where destroy, he came out of his mech, to contemplate the massacre.He turns and began to walk to the horizon, from where the sun rises. He realizes that all his dreams where destroy…Destroy by the clan wars.

A HERO’S LIFEGabriel Toscano

Once upon a time, in a little village where everybody was a normal person, there was a child named Gunter. He had a family with his older sister.One day in the village some bandits entered to sack every house. When they finished, they started to burn the houses and to kill people.Gunter ran out of the village before the bandits can captured him, but all his family was killed by the intruders. When Gunter escaped, a wizard named Sigfrid appear in front of him, he offered help to Gunter and also told him that he will train him to be a hero. And he did it.He took Gunter to the hero’s guild, so he can learn the abilities to be a hero. He spend fifteen years in the guild and he learned a lot of things, such the technique to use the sword, the art of combat and some magic like how to make a thunder or to make flames with his hands. He learned that so he can combat the malicious people around the world.When he finished his learning on the guild, he went to make new adventures and to free young ladies from monsters and dragons.At first he was known by the people as chickenchaser but by the pass of the time he was known by his name. Every time he did something for the other villages he gained reputation.He had many adventures with bad guys and bandits and many other creatures. One time he saved a child from the cave of dwarves. The boy was playing on the mountain when a group of dwarves came and captured him. Gunter went to the cave and fought with the little creatures and release the boy.One of those days were he lived in peace, Sigfrid came at Gunter place to give him a notice. Sigfrid heard a rumor that Gunter’s sister was in hands of the community of bandits that burned his village and killed his family. The notice caused great impact to Gunter, because he thought that all his family was killed that day. Sigfrid told him to wait

until he had more information about his sister because it was very dangerous to enter to the bandit village.Meanwhile Gunter went to the town and bought a house to live. He was very anxious to know more about his sister. One day he knew about an adventure. The queen of the town lost his necklace that was the amulet to reign.Gunter immediately knew that the necklace was not lost, was stolen. He recovered the necklace in the hands of a fisherman that found it on the river. Gunter give the amulet to her owner and in the moment he met her he felt in love. He married with the queen and had a child.He was living happily when one day Sigfrid came again with more news. Sigfrid give Gunter the location where the bandits have his fortress. Sigfrid told Gunter the risk of going to the bandits isle, they have a huge security guards and is very difficult to pas the walls.Gunter knows the risks but he had decided to go and to release his sister from the bandits. He started the trip to the bandit fortress and in the way he helped people that was in trouble.When he saw the big wall that protect the bandits he had a great idea to trespass the walls.He went to look for a bandit that was causing troubles. He captured him and take out his cloth. He put the bandit’s cloth to be made like him.The technique worked and he could get inside passing by the front door like a real bandit. That wasn’t easy because not every body could have the cloths like a bandit.Once inside, he started to look for his sister. He walked all over the fortress and he didn’t find anything. He thought that maybe his sister could be at the bandit’s boss room he went to it and entered.Like he thought his sister was in the boss bed, he entered and talk with her. He told her sister all the story and said that he cam to rescue her. Then the sister get shocked because she also thought that he was death. When Gunter tried to take her out of there she told him that she didn’t wanted to go, she explained that she was happy living there and that she was the wife of the bandits.Gunter was disappointed but at the same time happy that he could find his sister fine and happy

SNIFFY & FLUFFYHelel Malpica Alvarez

Once upon a time there lived a young frog who often sat upon a very soft lily pad.His name was Sniffy.Probably because he liked flowers.One day, Sniffy was scrubbing his toes in the pond.He felt something moving in the water!Phew! It was his friend, Fluffy, a small fish from just up the pond. She giggled.Fluffy had good news. She heard there were giant flowers on the other side of the pond!Sniffy could hardly wait!He packed a nutritious lunch and they set off to smell the flowers.They swam.And swam.They encountered a storm...A very large bird stole their nutritious lunch.Sniffy and Fluffy were beginning to think they would never see any giant flowers......when they realized they were at the other side of the pond!The flowers were huge!Sniffy was so happy!Fluffy was feeling a little left out.She couldn't smell the flowers from the water.That day Fluffy felt very lucky to have a friend like Sniffy.

MY BEST FRIEND HELENKaren Anaid Ruiz B.

Helen is my best friend; she is a very creative person.She started with piano lessons when she was only 6 years old, at school, she always created interesting projects in her art class; she won a lot of competitions.Helen is the kind of person who enjoys solving difficult problems, with her creativity she can do a lot of things, for example one day when I was in her house her father said that his computed stopped working, and he asked to Helen to figure out the problem, it took she only 15 minutes, and she loved every minute of it, she is very intelligent.She lives in a convenient neighborhood, she says that there you can find restaurants, nightclubs; her apartment is near the shopping center and the bus station. She thinks that

is also safe, but she says that it’s noisy because sometimes the street is full of people, the traffic is terrible, and the parking is a big problem, but she is accustoms whit this problem.Now Helen works as a popular TV show, she works with a group of writers, and together they have to think new ideas, it isn’t an easy job because they also have to come up with dialog for the actors on their show. Helen does it well. She starts work late in the morning and often works until 7 or 8 at night.Helen is very curious, she likes to travel and meet new people who have opinions that are different from hers. She had a lot of adventures sometimes bad experiences and others good.The last summer she went to Taiwan, on the last day of her vacation, she went fishing on a beautiful lake, unfortunately, she didn’t catch any fish, and she was bored, then she decided go to swim, when she stood up, her wallet fell out of her pocket and into the water, and it had all her money, her passport, her plane tickets, everything, then she jumped into the lake to look for it, but she didn’t find anything. The next morning, she wasn’t able to leave the hotel, she had not money to pay the bill and she hadn’t too the plane ticket and her passport to go home, so she needed to work and get some money.Fortunately she found one job, she taught piano lessons in a very expensive school, so in three weeks, she had the money to go home. She never forgets this terrible experience.Helen says that these experiences are a good source of ideas for her work.The problem with Helen is that she is an extremely disorganized person, her apartment is a disaster; she can’t find anything, which is very frustrating for her. The last week she told me that when she finished her writing for her job, she couldn’t find it, so she had to do it again. Her disorganization is getting to be a big problem in her job and in her life.Now I am very happy because the next month, Helen is going to get married, with a very handsome man calls Victor, is from Europe, he comes from a good family, the good thing is that, he can’t carry the disaster, he is very tidy and I hope that he teaches to my best friend Helen, the custom to be tidy.I am very proud of Helen.

THE MAGIC RACQUETLuis Eduardo Moguel Gordillo

Corey is a kid who enjoys playing chess and ping pong, he is a winner and he always wins all the little tournaments at his school.The problem is that he’s doing very badly at school, but he doesn’t care, all he wants to do is to play ping pong all day long, it doesn’t matter where he plays.He can be playing even at the streets or at his grandma’s favorite table.Yesterday morning he was playing at the school’s ping pong table while a huge and red haired boy came to him and challenged Corey at ping pong, that was really weird, I mean, everybody knows he’s the best at it.They set and appointment for the next Friday at the sport center.It was Friday and Corey had inviting everybody because he thought he would win.The time had came so they went into the sports center to the ping pong room and there was the red headed guy waiting for him.They got ready and five minutes later they started playing and, surprisingly the red headed guy won three sets of four.Today I was walking around at the school and some people said that they saw Corey talking to the ping pong guy about another match,Some people think they will play again and they don’t know really who’s going to win because both are very good at ping pong.Corey is a nice kid who always helps the girls from the bad guys, he is much loved by his teachers and family so almost all the people was there wishing he could win that contest.The other guy is the one that is always talking more than what he should, so Corey decided to challenge him but now at playing chess.Obviously, the red haired guy agreed with him.So finally the day came and both were exited for the contest because that was very important for them.Every body was nervous and finally the match got started.First it was very boring because as every body know chess is boring after a while but after seeing their commitment you kind of get in to the game too.It took two hours to decide the winner, but, Corey won.Then, suddenly an estrange man appeared from nowhere and gave Corey an all new and magic racquet for playing ping pong.He tried it at home, and he got surprised at the results of that racquet.He took it to the school and he showed to his new friend, the red haired guy and then together both could get to the finals and then, they won the world championship.

THE REVOLUTION AND LOVELuis Cesar Serrano Alfonzo

Once upon a time there was a man that was in love of a beautiful woman that his name was Sara Campbell, this woman was the daughter of the czar of Moscú, and he was an imperial guard of the czar’s family. specially he protect the czar’s daughter, and the princesses was in love of him but his father doesn’t knows about this and he trust in his guard, but if the czar knows that his daughter love a guard he will separate and punish the guard with one of the worst works that he can imagine.The princesses was in her room when the guard called Jim Wolosky came to the room of the princesses to stay together, but another guard of inferior range saw that Jim went a lot of times into the room of the princesses and he run and noticed to the czar about this. The czar gets angry and goes to the room of his daughter to check if the soldier said the truth but when the czar enters to the room. Nobody was here, and the czar calms his anger.

One day between the workers that were uncomfortable with the rules of the czar starts a secret movement against the government. The czar noticed about this movement and he sends his royals guard to check what’s going on?? But when the soldiers go to the town the workers came to the castle with weapons to fling down the czar’s government, the soldier start to kill people but they were a lot that the soldier can’t resist the attack of the people, most of the soldier were killed in this moment but other resist the progress but not for a long time the half of the soldiers return to the castle and noticed to the czar that the people was crazy and came to the castle to kill him. The czar can’t escape but he sends his daughter out of the castle and to save her. She was protected by the guard that she love and others soldiers, they go to the nearest town but when they were running the people saw that they were escaping, the people try to capture but the soldiers didn’t permit that the people capture the princesses but they separate and the guard goes with the princesses and found a horse and they ride on it.The guard guides the princesses to the nearest town and they start another life but the princess was sad for this event. Years later the princesses returns to her town and she reclaim the crown and the people accept her as his queen and she married with her guard, they had three children and they stay happy for ever.

UNTITLEDMauricio Meixueiro Rios

To begin this work I want to say that this story is not precisely as you said teacher, actually I don’t think that is a story, because this is completely true. It’s about me, something real that I am living in these days.2 days ago, was one of the best days of my life. The last Wednesday I ended my classes at the Tec of Monterrey, with other words, I ended my courses of High School, becauseI am a student of sixth semester.I am not happy about finishing my studies of High School, I mean, at the beginning I said that2 days ago was one of the best days of my life, but it wasn’t exactly because I ended my classes, being sincere I don’t want to go out of High School, I don’t want to leave my Prepa.Assuming that I don’t have to leave my Prepa, I would be with my friends more time, I would go to more parties, you know? I would do all of those things that I didn’t do during my High School.Although I think I’ve got very little things that I would wish to change.But I can’t return time, and waste it saying all of those things that I missed in the past,I have to see my future and begin to live it.Well, the reason for that happiness that I lived two days ago (the reason for what I am writing this) is because the Wednesday I had a really good time, I laughed a lot with my friends, with my generation, we danced and sang with the “Mariachis”, we got wet with “Pipas”, and everything in that day was as I expected.My friends were going for the teachers to get wet, the girls were singing with the mariachis, I was jumping and laughing with my classmates.Today, I have a nostalgia feeling, because I know that me and my friends, my classmates, my teachers, all of the persons I know in my High School, are going to separate, to take different ways. I’ve got more than enough remembers and experiences that I will never forget, because I think that at the end memories keep in all our heads.However I feel strange, because at the same time I feel melancholic (not depressed, just melancholic),I am excited with my new life, with the new life of “college student” that I am going to live.It is thought and said that in University you need to make some changes, but for me I have to accept that is difficult. I know that I will need to change many of my habits, because I will be living inGuadalajara in my career, for example the way I work in school or the way I organize my time.If I don’t change these things, I think that I’m not going to grow up, because these are real and important changes.

By the other hand, as I said, I don’t know many things, things that I am going to experiment in some months… never is going to be as my 3 years in Prepa, I’m not going to live more of those moments, because my Prepa… came to the end.

UNDERSTANDING LIFE(an adaptation)

Mirza Andrea Martínez Pèrez

One day a young Bedouin man called Ali, heard that traders were coming to his town. This was a notice which surprised him because usually, nobody had gone to his lonely town .Also Ali had a lot of plans on his life . he always wanted to meet a nice and beautiful girl in order to marry her .His friends always suggested to him to go out of his town and to explore new places but Ali was a little scared because he only wondered; “If I could visit another place, … what would I do in there?”, “How could I go to another place when I’ve got only a few money?”.When traders arrived to his town, all people was surprised for the gifts they had carried, specially for the food they had brought.Ali didn’t doubt about it, and he decided to join their caravan, which also had carried spices across the Sahara.Ali went running to his house in order to take some clothes to start his travel.His mother didn’t know anything about that, because Ali thought she could get angry. And that happened. When his mother found out, she begged him no to leave, but Ali left the next morning despite his mother explained to him her worries.When he started his travel with the traders, they all advised him to be careful with the animals, because the traders used to have a friend whose pet was a lion, and trader’s friend had been eaten by his lion.The story left Ali terrified but he knew that nothing would happen to him, because he had no pet. Ha-ha :)Any way, he traveled by camel and saw beautiful towns with a lot of people and a lot of women trying to caught Ali but he never showed a love sign.Finally, a beautiful woman named Tarika, stole his heart, and Ali fell deep in love with her.After a few days, he convinced Tarika to leave her town and to travel with him.While he was traveling on his way home, the traders taught him everything about the desert.

Ali learned a lot of things about the desert and started to understand his life, and what he wanted, and he realized that he already had everything he wanted. He just had to put his foot down.The following year, Ali suddenly burst into his mother kitchen carrying gifts and exotic spices. This was great because his mother was a great cook, and that was the best gift for her. Since Ali had traveled around many places he was able to carry spices from half of the entire world. Ha-haHis mother met Tarika, and didn’t doubt on starting the wedding plans. It all seemed to be perfect, because after two years Ali and Tarika had their first son, and they decided to call him “Sunrise”. After all, he was the sunrise of their new life.

THE LAST DAY OFMY HIGH SCHOOL

Mónica Bustamante Vidal.

It was a sunny day and everybody was sad because it was the last day that all my classmates stayed together, but by the other way it was a good day because everybody was talking and enjoying a good time with all the people in our generation also with classmates that never make a conversation with you. Here you can see some classmates very happy enjoying a good moment.That day everybody started remembering the moments that we passed together and if we could have a time machine what would we like to pass again. I thought in many moments but I like the “Emprendedor” because supposing I could stay in that moment again I will enjoy a moment at the final before the delivery of the prize that all the generation was making jokes. In this photo you can see me with my friends in our project called “Balance”.That day a pipe of water which was contracted by the mother of one of our classmates arrived to the school and there was more than enough water that everybody finished wet.Here is my friend Erika and me after the first time that we received the first basin of water.After the school it was told that everybody will go to “Los Delfines 5” a restaurant from a classmate, but the plans changed and the meeting was in “Tono Gallo”.But the day couldn’t end after eating, so it continued in a good party at night in the house of a classmate, I was very tired but it doesn’t matter because I was passing and excellent time.Here we are in the party…

It will be and unforgettable day because I was with many people that I appreciate and will never forget. And it’s sad to think that everybody will take a different way but it’s happy to know that your friends are going to be your friends forever so you will see them again in different ages of your life.

THE KINGRaul Alejandro Morales Carpio

Once upon a time on a very far, far place, two great and powerful kingdoms that were ruled by two magnificent kings, this kings where two brothers who decided to divide the reign that their parents left them.Both brothers had a lot of mercy with their people.These two reigns were as if they were just one single kingdom, each king supported the other in what ever they could.Both kings like a lot the war and their armies were both the most powerful of the region, there was being a golden period on the two great cities, the trade to other cities began to prosper and the economy reached the highest point of all the history of both nations……On day a very powerful fire burning reached one of the city walls, the fire was very powerful and could just be controlled after some weeks, during these time the communication between the two brothers was broken, then when the fire was controlled one of the kings decided to send help to his brother by sending cloths and a lot of food, but when the messengers arrived to the other city, they founded that it was all empty, there wasn’t a single soul on the town, they searched all over the place someone who could explained what happened but it seemed like if everyone had just disappeared like with magic, leaving all their activities as they were, the messengers entered then to the king’s palace but it was completely empty, they start calling to see if anybody could hear them, after some hours they realized that they were the only ones on the city, scared they started to run back to their cities, once there, they started to tell to the king what happened and what they founded, when the king heard the bad news he couldn’t believe so he called his general and told him that he most call his most confident men to be prepared immediately. The king also ordered to prepare his horse because we wanted to see with his own eyes if all what the messengers said was true.When the king and his soldiers reached to the city the king realized that all was true, he ordered his men to check up the entire city and he immediately headed to the palace to search his brother, when he entered the palace he saw that all the values were still being there and that the fact that some looters were the responsible of what happened was just impossible.

When the king entered to his brothers room he didn’t found anything out of order, after a few moments the general arrived to the city and informed to the king that the city was empty but that all the treasures still on their places, the king started to walk all over his brother’s room and he finally went to the terrace he started to see at the horizon, he could see all the territory of his brother’s country and on the distance he could saw his own city, he was contemplating the great city he had when suddenly a green and a blinding light appeared over his city, this was coming from the sky, after this a explosion took place and a very powerful fire began on the city outdoors……………

MY FAMILYRoselia León Coutiño

We bought a lot of things and gifts for my grandmother and my aunt Laura and uncle Mario, the best gift was for my nephew; this day we were happier than the rest of the vacation, maybe because it was the last day; We went to take some pictures at the museum, when I took the pictures I noticed that my family is the most beautiful family in the world, my father looked thinner, my mother happier and my brother looked more handsome than before.We traveled by car and bus, if we had traveled by plane we would have had more time because we spent a lot of it at the road, but that time was very useful because we talked about some situations that were affecting to our family, if we hadn’t talked about it, we wouldn’t have improved our relationship as a family, this vacation were the best in my entire life.When we get to Oaxaca, we went to look for a hotel and get some food; we ate a lot because we were starving! The hotel was beautiful, comfortable and big.The food in Oaxaca is delicious and people are very nice, when we finished eating we walk in some avenues of the city, I liked a lot because Oaxaca is very clean and historical.We were to the park and then we were to a Discotheque, when we get there, I saw a handsome Guy, he was dancing with another beautiful girl but I thought that she was her sister or something because they seemed to be. The Discotheque was very big and nice but my mother and my father weren’t enjoyed it. I will never forget this night because I meet to the handsome guy, he is from USA and we are still in contact. I love Oaxaca is very beautiful.Next day my mom told me that she wanted to go to a river, my father wasn’t agree with my mom, but I was very excited about it because I thought that it was a very good idea. We went to a beautiful river, it was clean and big; the water was cool but we didn’t

matter. I would like to return to Oaxaca, in my next vacation, I will save a lot of money because I should visit more places; I could visit some places but I want to visit more.Mi family and me visited to my best friend, who studies at the Oaxaca University, he lives in a nice town, which is very expensive, I enjoyed a lot because I hadn’t seen her since 3 years ago, my friend is very intelligent, she likes to read, which is his favorite hobby, but more than that, she is very honest and sincere.Mi family were very happy and excited the last day, I was thoughtful about this vacation, I hope to travel again with all my family because sometimes we don’t live together as a family, this travel changed my life because, before that, I never spent time with them, and now I know that family is the most important thing in my life.

TOO MANY MIRACLES FOR ME…Luis Daniel Torres Fregoso

Two years ago, when I was finishing the semester, my friends and I planed to celebrate and make a party. We bought snacks, wine, beers, and things like that. Whatever we planed to do, we wanted to be together and have a good time to forgive the school…We bought all things to have fun but we also started to do bad things, we were on the streets, then in the parks, and everywhere just because we don’t wanted to have the police near us (you know, nobody can drink alcohol on streets). We were just talking and talking along hours and we also were listening to the car’s music. I remember one girl joined us but then she goes because it was late, but we continuous talking and having good time.When we saw a transit police, we got into the car and then went to another place. I remember that we arrived to a calm place, it was a park, in that moment we were doing nothing. I think we were bored but some friends were nearly drunk. One man walked near my car, got one paper and we saw that he wrote the car plate’s number. We didn’t want that so we got into the car and then we followed him. One big friend got out the car and went over the man and he threatened him about writing my car plates.It wasn’t all, my friends started to get crazy and they wanted to come back on that place we were and then try to find the man and hit him. I didn’t know what to do because I started to get crazy too.We started to get out of control and we started doing more bad things, things that I can’t talk but I just can say that those things were worse. I started to get nervous, some times my friends and I got dangerous and wanted to hit people or worse things.It was 2 am on the next day; I decided to finish all because I was scared that people started to call the police or something like that. I remember that I didn’t wanted to come

back home by the way that we were before. So I started to drive forward the north highway.My friends knew why I where driving forward there and they know it was too late so we wanted to finish all this and just come home. But in one corner in front of the “Chamula's monument” the car got out of control, it skidded and hit of side the sidewalk so the car started to turn upside down…The car was totally crashed, one friend still in the car, he was obstructed with the seatbelt. He got out the car by the back window¡ also I got out by my window and my friends too. One car near the accident got my friends to another place because it could be worse if they were there when the transit polices came. Just one friend stayed with me while the others went to get help (for the polices problems)The miracles started; nobody called the police about the things we were doing and that were big preoccupations for me. Any friend was damaged or with injuries by the accident, the car was between a post and a spectacular announcement (I mean that the commercial of that spectacular could demanded me if I had destroyed it), before the accident no friends were wearing the seat belt but at that time all people were wearing that.The police catch up me and my friend but my dad paid to others polices…Many things happened after, I thing I had deserved an injury or something like that…

DRAKO AND THE BAKERAna Guerrero Pinto

There was a time, in a far away land, a beautiful young lady who helped her father in the bakery, because her mother had died year before.One day, while Marie was selling breads in her window saw something rare that came from the forest. It was like an incandescent light that shined like the Sun, illuminating everything around it. Marie, who was an adventurous girl, went to find the origin of that light and in form she got closest to the light, she got more entered to the forest. When she got to the bottom of the light she found a big dragon, which was laid down on the ground, moaning for the pain and throwing fire with his nose; he had been hurt by a sword. The dragon, at the moment he saw Marie, told her to leave the place, but Marie, who was very brave and had seen the pain suffered by the dragon, got even more closest and take off the sword from the dragon’s back with the help of the animals of the forest that where near the place. Then she cured the injured and the dragon felt better. Drako (that was the name of the dragon) said thanks to Marie and promises her that he will be there for her no matter what or when.

It was beginning to get dark when Marie said good bye to her new friend, Drako, to get back with her father. When she arrived her father was too worried, because, time before, he had had troubles with a man that thought that just for having more money that they, had rights over everything, including Marie, and that afternoon, the old baker had seen he. He was afraid that something bad happened to her little girl, but when he saw her entering to the house all the fears disappear and felt more quite, and like it was late, he went to rest with her daughter.When the sun arrived the next morning, they started with their normal works. That day they had many things to do, and they needed sugar, because it had finished. The dad, for having so much to do, forgot the problem of the day before and sent her daughter to get it.Marie, not knowing a thing about the problem went with any worry to get the sugar. She was walking by a road when she felt a hand on her shoulder and when she turned she saw the face of the evil man, Sir Otto; he made her smell poison dust and she dismayed. When Marie woke-up she was in side a cave in the forest. She had been kidnapped.She was locked in the cave, just with a piece of bread and a bottle of water. Scared she scream and scream asking for help, but the hours pass and no one came. She started to loose the faith and began to sing.The animals that were near the place started to came, and at the same time the time increase, the number of animals, increase as well. The voice pass thru all the forest, and when the notice got to the dragon’s cave, he wanted to met the responsible of that amazing song, so he went to the cave, and when he destroy the rock that was covering the enter to that cave, she found the surprise that the girl was Marie. She hugged him and begged to take her with her father, because she was afraid that Sir Otto hurt him. Drako and Marie flew to the town and got to the baker’s house just on time to stop Sir Otto of assassinating to her father. Marie Scream and Drako entered to the house and save the old man, burning in a breath to Sir Otto.Marie was grateful with Drako, because he had saved her and her father, so she hugged him and a tear fell down thru her cheek, Drako started to transform in a man, that was because the tear of real love made the spell disappear (Drako was a prince who receive a spell from an evil witch, that made him an ugly and lonely dragon).Marie and Drako stayed together and after a while the got married in a simple wedding and the live happy ever after.

UNTITLEDAngel Enrique Sol Trejo

Up-to the next day Ernest is very tired, his body hurts him a lot. Villabong is now a new town were everything needs to be discovered. In this town Ambar is a simple girl with different crazy ideas for almost all people living in there. This is a weird new world were people have close ideas.One day Ambras was singing in her garden when suddenly a lot of guacamayas appeared. She had something inside her that absorbers natural mystic. She was very afraid of what she had done. She couldn’t believe that singing was a chant for guacamayas. This day another weird thing happen at the other side of the town. Ernest had the visit of a 5 jaguars. He couldn’t believe that. This jaguars were the power of natural justice.In that days humanity was destroying the earth. But something was about to happen. Two people now had the natural mystic power and they were selected to met in hours. Finally they came together. Both of them know that a ceremony needs to be done. So they waited until the sun sleeps. When this time arrives humanity was going to have a radical change. Suddenly a spirit appeared and it said that a new live was going to come for us. It also said that the natural mystic was going to punish the people that doesn’t believe in nature. This is how humanity knew how to use a weapon. The weapon that nature spirit gave them.Since that day Ernest and Ambar became the power of nature. Now they need to assure the integrity of land. They were sited in rocks next to the river waiting for the power of the animals. Suddenly the jungle got quiet. They new that jaguars were near them. They feel that everything was going great. Animals and plants were doing great. Now they ere happy.One day they came back to town. They were very angry. Their eyes had seen something that impact them. So they took the power of nature. Sky and stars were now their weapon. So they started to kill people that was going crazy. This is how dead appeared.This make people think how and when this changed why nature is killing them. But inside them they knew that it changes because they were hurting earth.Since that day people started to have a little respect to nature. But there is always people that doesn’t understand the power of nature so this people is killed by nature day by day. The voice of the truth doesn’t silence Nature doesn’t respect money or status. Nature only attacks people that hurts her.Ernest do not have to say it, but he was going to do something for earth. HE wanted to speak to thanks the sun, thanks breeze, thanks color, thanks day that nature brought him to life. He also thanks surprise night thanks moon his muse. Nature told him that the life is a moment, it is not age nor it is time, What you take inside It is . His eyes wants more intense days. His eyes expects more happy days. He doesn’t want to be a soldier anymore. Now he want to be a soldier of peace. He wants to fight for the innocence and purity. He wants to be a Soldier in the darkness noises in the lost forest in the map of

humanity. He converted the night and the grass in his bedroom and bed. He doesn’t want to kill anymore.Ambar also knows that there is so much trouble in the world. He wanted nature to Bless her eyes in the morning. This is the best solution to have peace. This is the door for peace. So nature blessed her eyes and the world took the second big change since it was created.Suddenly one day a strong virus that is making damage in Villabong started to kill a lot of people. Why ? that was the question of Ambar and Ernest. Karma, is a natural law. Nothing is accidental. From the towns of the bad people, karma is watching the hearts in it does not pardon. Entering itself in the feelings, to the humanity it leaves it out of breath does not discriminate against children neither to old people, nor to youngest.When it will be the day that peace arrives and we don’t have more war? Ambar questioned. And she thought that will be the day that people do not give more and finish life in the planet. When it will be the day that peace arrives That will be the day that people dies of a disease.So Ambar and Ernest extracted the fruit of the Mother Earth they inhaled conscience They smoked the knowledge of nature. The wind wraps their innocence and their resistance Everything in the clouds were giving advices for people that were changing forests by cement. Earth is the liberator of the mind.Both of them were really thanked with mother earth. Now they were rally relaxed. Finally they listened to this sound of silence. They are the ones that blow the wind. Now they can take a shower in the stars. They can get dressed of sea and sky. Now they can walk free in the land. They can drink water of falls. Now they are what they wanted to be . And the town now is an equilibrium between earth and humanity.

Hope you enjoyed this issue.