It Could Happen To You
Every time I read headlines in the news about Argentina is about some disaster going on.
I would never think that something like that would ever affect my own family.
This morning I was checking the Argentine news (like I do every morning) and a huge line in red said: “Braking news! A huge truck crashed on the freeway!”
15 minutes later my sister sent me this e-mail
“On a normal day I drive through an underpass on my way home from work.
Today sheets of metal fell from a semi that was in the overpass of the freeway.
I was very happy going home listening to music when the sheet of metal and the other stuff fell right in front of me, (RIGTH IN FRON OF ME!!!!)
I was going really fast!, It scared the crap out of me!!! It could have fallen on the windshield!!! Do you get it??
I felt like I had a heart attack and I saw the light for a second.
Thanks goodness there was nobody in the left line otherwise I would be walking to the light… hahaha Oh my gosh… I can’t believe how scared I was…
Vivi”
Birthdays
Last week was a week of birthdays. Birthdays are a celebration of life. We humans celebrate that we are “growing up” or, in other words: “GETTING OLD”
Even though some times I forget my friends and relatives (And even my own) birthdays! I consider a little ‘offend-able” if they forget mine. (Weird)
Growing up can be a fun experience, but is not. Time goes too fast and all the plans that you had have to be forgotten because for most of them you are too grown up to do it.
That’s why I like to be with friends and relatives on that day, because with their presence (or message) they say “We are there”
(Than can make all the difference)
Last Thursday was my mom’s birthday (60) and despite the hassled that means to call to Argentina on a busy day at work and school, it was very important to me to call her and remind her that “I am there”
Mindy’s B-day was Saturday and in that case I was literally there.
The Spontaneous
Spontaneous Trip: Vegas
Las Saturday night my friend from work called me almost at midnight and asked me if I wanted to go to Las Vegas (Nevada) next morning.
Of course I said yes.
To see more pictures of Las Vegas Trip click here.
It was awesome.
Spontaneous Friends
If there is something I like about my friends is that I never know what is going to happen when I am with them.
I guess I like the spontaneous and unexpected stuff. For example, two weeks ago Mindy called and tells me that she is going to Manti, and asked me if wanted to come?
(Manti is a little town 3 hours south of Salt Lake City) and without a doubt I said yes.
Last summer with Miriam, we starting random roads and streets looking for the Hollywood Sign.
She was wit her baby, Ava and the hill supposedly were on fire… and still we managed to hike a little.
A coupe years ago one of my best friends, Dallas, called and tells me “We are on our way to Disneyland, you coming?
Of course I said yes… “Give me an hour to get ready ok?” I added…
“One hour? You have ten minutes” he ultimated.
I took some stuff really fast to my bag and 10 minutes later I was on my way to Disney land.
In Disneyland I got lost and Dallas remembered that he was thinking how he is going to tell my sister and my mom that he lost me in Disneyland. (I found them at the hotel that night)
I think the best moments of life are spontaneous.
Like when you buy something just because, or when you girlfriend stills a kiss from you just because, or when you call a friend… just because.
Things like that makes life a little more exciting and is worth to be a live right where you are; because there is something else, something unexpected, something unknown.
And it kind of makes you want to wake up, stand up and go find out what’s out there and discover it… just because.
WANTED (Hearted shaped red baloon)
I was bored so I let two of my three red-heart shaped balloon (that I got for Valentine’s Day) go with a message on it…
One got stuck in the tree, the other one was almost destroyed by a helicopter but it disappeared in the sky…
The message says to contact me and let me know where it is found. I hope it works.
I am still bored
About American, About Idol:
Perhaps it is my imagination but I think since I got to the US (2004) I never saw a real good singer-star came out from American Idol, I mean, most of them can sing really well, but, or they lack the look, or the charisma, or something…
I don’t really watch ‘American idol’ after the auditions anyway, it kind of bores me, but this kid, David Archuleta really surprised me…
Like Simon said “Young… likeable… good-looking, and a great voice, not a bad place to be is it?” And plus, he is from Utah (and he doesn’t look like a complete retard!) and… he is Latino.
My friend sent me some videos from when he was a kid and now I am a fun… Go Archuleta!!!
Fallin
Text evidence of changes
Sent Text messaging to Jordan L. by Hernan When Snowboarding for the first time
Hernan
10:00 AM: “I am Stuck in the middle of the mountain… I SUCK BAD, we came today, came and teach me how to do this thing!”
11:53 AM: “I can’t do it!!! This sucks”
2:00 PM: “I made it (Down the mountain) in 2 minute! no falls!!! I LOVE Snowboarding!!!
Snowboarding: Checked
One of my resolutions for 2008 was to finally do a snow sport (snowboarding or ski) in Utah.
I’ve been here for almost 5 years and never even thought about doing it. It was time.
My roommate Jon invited to me to go with him every weekend for the past 5 weeks, but for some reason or another we never could go…
Yesterday we finally went to the ski resort called Brighton, Utah.
Snowboarding is hard, it requires a lot of your mental control. You pretty much have to convince yourself that you are not a loser and that if that a 3 years old girl can do it you can do it too!!!
Overcame the fear of going too fast and crash was the hardest thing.
It was frustrating, and I thing that the first two times I went down the mountain falling and crashing thousands of times.
But at the end I finally got it and it felt good.
Good for me!
The deer incident
After a lovely nigh of Super Bowl in Bountiful, Mindy and I came back to Salt Lake City. We drove slowly because of the snow. It’s being snowing almost every day this past week.
The snow covers everything so you never know what is in the rode.
We made it safe to home. Mindy enters to the parkway that connects to the backyard. She tried to turn around but got stuck in the snow and the more she tried to get out of it the more she slipped away.
Finally we desisted in trying and called my room-roommate, Jon. We grabbed an old table and tried to put it in front of the wheels. Something was underneath the car that made it kind of hard to put anything there… I thought it was a rag first so I pulled really hard and head of a deer pooped out.
“It’s a deer!” Jon yelled, and Mindy started screaming saying “Oh my gosh I killed a dee, I killed Bambi!”
It was a stuffed animal deer.
Baby hurled from blazing flat out of third-floor window is caught by policeman
Last updated at 13:02pm on 5th February 2008 
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This is the heart-stopping moment when a two-year-old boy was thrown from a third-floor window to escape a deadly fire.He hurtled through billowing smoke to land safely in the arms of a policeman 40ft below.
His parents took their desperate gamble as flames tore through a block of flats in the southern German town of Ludwigshafen.
Last night it was not known whether they also escaped the blaze, which killed at least nine people, including five children.
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Oustretched hands go up to catch the toddler plummeting to earth after tlats were set alight in Ludwigshafen, southern Germany
Terrifying sight: The young baby hurtles towards the ground from the third-floor windowA further 60 were injured. Two more children survived by huddling behind a sofa. Police are investigating whether the disaster was an arson attack by neo-Nazis, as most of the families in the building were Turkish.
There was a similar blaze at a refugee hostel in the town eight years ago. As well as the 52 residents, the four-storey block was packed with friends and relatives watching a street festival on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze broke out on the first floor and fire officials said the wooden stairs acted like a chimney, drawing flames upwards.
“It would have been like a blast furnace,” said one. Web designer Rene Werse, 43, who took the picture of the falling boy, said: “I saw things that I shall never forget. There were people on their balconies and at their windows, screaming to get out. It was hell.”
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Agonising: The family watch helplessly and hope the two-year-old is caught safely
Rescue: A boy is handed to safety as scared residents, mostly immigrants, make their way onto the balconies. It is feared the arson attack was carried out by neo-NazisGordon B. Hinckley’s Funeral
I went to the funeral of Gordon B Hinckley… the prophet.
It was so emotional to me… it was hard not to cry.
