Three-year-old girl rescued from Argentina well

Information source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11782810

Three-year-old girl rescued after falling 23m down well

A three-year-old girl in Argentina has been safely rescued after falling down a 30m (100ft) well.

Rescue workers spent more than six hours trying to pull Vanessa Mamani from the shaft in a field in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires province.

She was taken to hospital where doctors said she was shocked but otherwise unharmed by the ordeal.

Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has described the rescue as "a miracle".

"She got out and screamed as if she had just been born," she told reporters after visiting the girl in hospital.

The rescue operation was broadcast live on Argentine television, as fibre optic cameras showed the small girl trapped in a narrow space at the bottom of the mine shaft, after falling 23 metres.

She appeared unhurt but there were concerns that she might be suffering from less obvious

injuries.

The space was too small for anyone to go down and fetch her, so a harness had to be lowered down for her to put on herself.

Chief firefighter Marcelo Tucci said it was unclear until the last moment whether Vanessa would be able to follow the instructions and put on the harness, the Associated Press reports.

But she managed to attach herself and her rescuers erupted in cheers as she reached the surface at around midnight local time (0300 GMT).

Vanessa was then taken to hospital in Florencio Varela. Hospital director Arnaldo Medina said she was suffering "from a state of shock" but was "doing fine".

My opinion: My opinion on all news related to people who have to be picked up is that they should not be surrounded by cameras at the time to surface.

I think they should leave space to breathe for relief and not make them nervous. If I were in a situation like this I don't like this kind of atention, cameras in everywhere and also a lot of people watching me and making me photos.

I'm agree that people knows about this girl and her situation but there should be only one or two cameras. In this occasion also she is a very small child and she is very shocked when she is picked up to surface.

In fact, I think that she is well now but she had to go badly at the time of her rescue.

Trabellers to USA now pay to promote the country

Information source: Bahia magazine.

The new:

Travellers to the United States now have to pay 14 dollars -around 11 euros- even if they are visa-exempt. Most of this is to pay for promoting the US for holidays, as visitor numbers have declined.

The fee goes by the name "Esta", for Electronic System for Travel Authorisiation. Esta has been mandatory since January last year for anyone from the more than 30 countries that are part of a Visa Waiver Program, only now it is a paying concern.

Jacquelyn Aron Bednarz of the US Department of Homeland Security said: "What is important for travellers to know is only those who are applying for a new ESTA, beginning on Sep

tember 8, will have to pay the fee. If you are one of those 26 million travellers who already have an approved ESTA, you don't have to pay the fee, until your ESTA expires."

Esta is valid for business and tourism travellers for stays of 90 days or less, valid for two years. The details on the application include passport number, date of birth and criminal record details, if any.

A European travel agent raised one of the objections her customers have. Christiane Vermant, an agency owner, said: "If you're only on your way through the US and have a couple of hours' stayover waiting for your connection at the airport, you still have to pay. That adds up for families with two or three children, shen they're not even staying in the US."

Various consumer associations have criticised the American govermment's forcing visitors to contribute to a fund to make the US look good around the world. Unless you are Esta approved, you will not be allowed on the plane.

My opinion:

I think that Esta is a unfair payment. It's good when travellers stay in the USA for a long time, but I think that it isn't necessary to pay for Esta when you are only waiting for a plane to go to another country.

If American governament changes the tax it would be better, and then maybe the other countries would follow suit and that will be much better for all the tourists who would be able to have cheaper travel.

In times of crisis I think everybody needs something to cheer themselves up and a cheaper holiday could be what many people need.

Perhaps Spain should be the pioneers of an idea like this against the crisis it may encourage people to come to visit us.

Spain being one of the worst European countries in crisis should come up with an innovation to bring everybody out of the crisis.

And that's my opinion =)

1 new: Harry Potter 7

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New:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II is the latest film in the Harry Potter saga. It will be released July 15, 2011.

It is rumored that begins after the return of Ron scene. The film adaptation of the seventh and final book in the series was divided into two parts to avoid the elimination of important aspects of the plot, so this is a continuation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I. Actually on promotion. We invite you to see the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

My opinion:

I think that Harry Potter is a good saga, but now it makes me feel bored. There are 7 movies right now (including that new movie) and there's a movie to come. That's a lot of movies! This world of Harry Potter that so impressed me at first now it seems monotonous. I think they should not abuse in this story, the writer and who made the movie. But I'm sure I'll go to see the movie at the cinema.

My hobby

One of my hobbies is to go to the movies. I go every Friday and on Friday if I can not go on Saturday. Whatever happens, every week I go to my appointment with the screen. Always accompanied by the same people, which can then be added to anyone. Those two people are my mother and my little sister, Miriam. This hobby always we do not remember my life without a movie almost every day, or a series, some of film culture.

At first we were all the family who were going to the cinema, but then my father

began to take a bar at night and could not come. We keep going everyone, including my aunt Mariana, who also loves movies. But now she has a boyfriend and went to the cinema with him and my other sister, Sara, studies and lives in Barcelona, but is sometimes on weekends and comes with us. I have seen many movies, and even my interest has gone beyond go to the cinema. My family collects lots of movies at home, I have a lot of movie towers next to the home cinema. Prior also had an interesting hobby that I maintain: collect entries from all the movies I've seen at the cinema. But once I lost everything and had to start from zero. That was something that made me sad, because tha material inputs were also collected memories.

As usual, the workers of the Roses movie (which is where I usually go) always know us and greet us all. My desire to be a film director came to this hobby, I still like to be that but I think it would be very hard to achieve something in this world.

Change 4th of ESO for 1rst of Batxillerat

When I was in 4th of ESO I thought that it was difficult but now I see that it isn't true. In Batxillerat I have to study a lot more and usually you don't see the benefit yet. There's a lot of work to do, and EXAMS :S

When I was doing 4th of ESO I could often meet my friends, but now I feel that I can't waste any time. Before I could do a lot of extra activities but now I can only do rowing, guitar and piano. I would like to do more things like painting, learn to play the violin, learn italian, go to cookery classes, go swimming, etc. And above of all I would like to write my own histories with time to relax me and stay home with my family.

But inspited of this I still go to the cinema with my family every Friday like always.

When I was in 4th of ESO I hated maths and now I'm still doing it, but I've improved. But I still find it difficult!!!

Now I think that my favourite subjects are Company Organitation and Literature.

Trip to Germany =)

On the 9 of June wich is my birthday I had a big surprise! I was given a special present: A TRIP TO GERMANY!!!

At the school breaktime I was with my friends talking about summer when Lydia appeared. She is one of my best friends and she had already told me that she was going to give me something special. I was very excited when I saw her smiling. She gave me a postcard while a friend taxed us and Lydia said: Open it!

At first I thought "It's a joke? Where's my present?", but when I opened it I saw that inside the envelope there was a plane ticket to Frankfurt!!!

The flight was for the following day from Girona! :O And it lasted three days.

It was living at eight o'clock in the morning so I went to my house after school and I packed my bag. I couldn't sleep that night so I was tired in the morning. Although I couldn't sleep in the flight because I was very nervious. When the plane landed we took a bus to Frankfurt city. It was the first day and we started to be very energetic and we walked around the city because we wanted to see as much as we could because we were only staying in Frankfurt one day.

Strangely the weather was very hot (34 Cº)!!! I was very surprise because I thought that Germany was a very cold country.

In the afternoon we took a train and it was horrible! While we were waiting for the train to leave there wasn't any air conditioning and it was very hot. The train left us in Wetzlar, Lydia's small town.

The second day we visited Wetzlar and we had to go to Lydia's doctor to renew her identity card. It was so embarrased because he was a baby doctor and the whole surgery was plenty of babies. I had to wait alone there with German books for small German children.

Finally on the third day we went to see what was left of Wetzlar and we came back at night. First by train, then by bus, then by plane, and finally by car. It was a fantastic trip and I will never forget it! =)

Rowing

It's difficult to explain what I think about rowing (or what I feel). I love go to the sea when it's sunny and when it's cloudy, provided that I'm with my friends and we can row.

When I'm rowing my mind is concentrated, I can even think of anything, or I can be thinking about how to rowing stronger, how to breath properly or how to stick my oar in the water... It's a good expirience that I love to practice every training. I never get bored about rowing.

There are some days that we can't go to the sea to go rowing, so we have to go to the canals. I hate go rowing in the canals, but I like the landscape. When the weather is very bad we have to do physical traning. Sometimes it doesn't like to me, but I also do it. But other times it don't care, and I almost like. In fact, I love rowing when I'm in the sea, the canals or doing ergometer. You can feel relax when you are rowing, for example, when you are traning the right of resistance and you have to be concentrated, when you are just having a boat little walk or when you are making a break and thinking about what you need to improve. But most of the time you are discharging anger, hitting the oar with all your strength or thinking when you win and what you have done makes sense.


But I think that rowing isn't be all the time training without nothing else. My team, my friends and, sometimes, my family. That's what it is. A way to life, a way to feel.

I love it, it makes me smile.