These Guiding questions might help you
1. What was the problem?
2. Where did it happen?
3. When did it happen?
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4. Which was the most difficult situation?
5.Why did it happen?
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6.. How did it happen?
7. How did you feel?
8. What was the situation like?
9. What did you decide to do?
Read carefully the Verb Patterns list and select the verbs you are going to use to narrate your story.
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9. What did you decide to do?
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In the last months of 2010, I was preparing a travel with some friends to Amsterdam.
ReplyDeleteFirst we bought the tickets for the trip, wich were very cheap then we became very excited; after that we began to look for a hotel there, but it was really dificult, we couldn´t find any in Internet or by telephone. We were a little concerned but later we thought that it wouldn´t be any problem, because we would arrive to Amsterdam in the morning, then we could find a room in a hotel there.
A day before the trip, a friend find a good and cheap hotel in Internet, but they had availables rooms only for our second day in Amsterdan; then the next day, we left to Amsterdam without having booked hotel for our first night there; however it doesn´t seem a problem for us, because we had been looking forward to the trip , and we were happy to do it.
The journey was as we planned, we arrived in the morning to amsterdam and we began to search a hotel for that night, we thought it would be easy, but it didn´t. We walk aroudn all the city, visiting some turist places and asking for a free room in any hotel that we found, but in all of them we recived the same answer: we ran out of free rooms. The night came and we din´t have where to sleep; then after we had been looking hotel all day, we had to spend the night in a public park.
Diana Lucía Grajales Lopera
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Six months ago I traveled whit some friends to Amazon forest, we thought it would be a great trip, but didn`t know what to expect.
ReplyDeleteWhit me traveled Maria, Alejandra, Andres, Santiago y Daniela. We bring all necessary; GPS, mountain equipment, food and water. Enter in the jungle and it was beautiful, the birds, the flowers, the vegetation, were very exotic. When we were walking Maria fell suddenly into a hole, was very deep and she had been injured one leg.
We decided separate, Andres and I went for help and Daniela, Alejandra y Santiago tries to help Maria while we assisted. Santiago and I walked for a long time, but we don’t found the exit, the GPS was broken, we were very bored, we were lost.
Spent hours and was soon lost evening and we were still concerned about Maria and our other friends, and then I have an idea we must guide by the sun. We did and we reached the outskirts of a municipality where to find a keeper, with whom we came back to intern in the forest.
After an hour of walking we arrived where they were our friends, their faces at us were quiet, immediately the ranger using Andres and Santiago went to Mary, and the Rangers made a tourniquet on the foot. Maria out of the woods on a stretcher and days after she recovered.
This was a disturbing experience; we all had fear, but there are always taught us to be careful when visiting the forest and you cannot trust always on the technology.
By Lorena Aristizabal Guerra
My father has been saving in his wardrobe a sword for years. This sword is very important for my father because my great grand-father fought with it in the War of a Thousand Days and he gave it away my grandfather before him dead and my grandfather gave it away my father before him dead.
ReplyDeleteMy father has been looking after his sword for twenty years. He has always been saying to me:
“Cindy shouldn’t take my sword because it is very heavy and you can drop it and broke it” But, I’ve always been seeing it whit very curiosity and really whit very wish of having it in my hands.
On Saturday night, when my father went to my aunt, as he has been doing every day because she is illness. I took the sword of my father and I started play with it like if I were Xena: Warrior Princes. I played and played until the sword dropped at the floor and broken in two parts.
Since then I’ve been crying and hiding the sword under my bed so that my father doesn’t see it. I’m so afraid of telling the truth my father and I have been rehearsing what will tell my father to avoid he doesn’t get angry whit me. Perhaps, if I give to my father a good excuse, He’ll pardon me.
By Cindy Herrera Espinosa.
When I was a child my father decided give us a travel to my brother and I, to meet the sea, because we had a good behavior at school and excellent grades, My brother and I were very excited.
ReplyDeleteWe went on an excursion, the first place that we visited on the excursion was Coveñas, we stayed in a beautiful cabins with an incredible ocean view, My brother and I could not fit into the clothes with so much happiness around us.
We came to coveñas in the morning and spent all day at the beach and talking with the other families, when night came all the families went to their cabins, when we went to our cabin everything was very nice and normal, we finished to accommodate and organize our clothes, I went to the bathroom because I wanted to take a shower, before entering the shower I started hearing a few whistles, I started looking where from the whistles came, when I saw a red snake, I was paralyzed and was very afraid because the snake began to do strange movements, so I cried, and my dad and my brother opened the door and saw the snake and they were very scared, my dad said to me that not to move and stay still, my brother went to call the manager of the cabins and explained the situation, the manager ran and called a kind of trainer of snakes, the trainer captured the snake and explained that the snake was not poisonous but could have bit me if I had made fast movements and in this area were many snakes.
It was a very difficult situation because we did not know if the snake was poisonous and I could have died if the snake have been poisonous, I have been remembering this difficult situation all my life.
By Tatiana Gutierrez.
On september of 2010 the university stopped the activities,it has been happened in other occasion. Majority of my partners from other municipalities and departments traveled to visit their parents.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends told me that she wanted to visit her grandmother, but she didn't know if she could do it because she must work. One night saturday I spoke with her and I asked if she finally she would travel, she answered me " Yes, this weekend off for me. I don't believe it ". I was happy for her, she deserved it. She would travel the next day, she was very happy. It was the last time I spoke with her.
She did must come back to work Wednesday of next week, then she traveled Tuesday. When she was back, the bus stopped many times due some landslides on the road. Her mother called her because she wanted to know what the situation was that her daughter was living.
My friend waited much time while the land was retired from road, but she couldn't wait more time because she wanted to arrive at time to work. Then she tried to pass on landslide walking as well as many people had done it. Unfortunately when she tried to pass, the other part of land without collapsing fell on she.
Her mother knew something bad had happened to her daughter, she tried call her daughter, but her daughter never answered. The next day her mother received the bad news about the disappear of her daughter. I saw the news last night about this big landslide, but ever I magine that my friend was there. Wednesday I received one call of other friend mine, she told me all. I had a nervous breakdown by what had happened, I could not sleep until they found under large amounts of land (five days after the accident).
By Stefany De La Hoz.
When I was four years old I lived with my mom, my sister and my daddy in an apartment in Toledo , I thought that we were a happy family but it was not true, because my mom and my daddy were not happy together and they had discussions without I knew what was really happening.
ReplyDeleteSuddenly one day I awoke and my mom was not, I ran out my house and I searched but I could not found her. I began to cry because I could not understand what was happening. One night she was with me and the other not? Why she was leaving us? It was very difficult to me because I was very attached to her and I felt bad and sad.
Many days later she called me and she tried to explain me what was happening and two years later my sister and I returned to live with her in other place, but not with my father.
By Tatiana Zabala Rojas
Two years ago, I was waiting at university for my brother Manuel because he carried me to home in his motorcycle because I had no money to pay the bus. I had waited one hour and I was angry because I had to get to study for an exam the next day, suddenly, I received a call from my mother and she told me that my brother had had an accident but it was nothing serious. Then, I borrowed money to go home.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to the bus, I called my mother to see how Manuel was, but she didn’t answer, I went back to call her and my father was who answered, he told me that my brother had been carried of emergency at hospital near the university. I returned running and when I arrived at the hospital, the doctors said me that my brother was serious. I couldn’t believe what was happening, doctors didn’t leave me see my brother, then I waited my mother and she if could pass. I didn’t bear the pressure and when I saw my brother's state through the window of the emergency room, fainted me, then I entered the emergency room too , when I reacted had lots of doctors next to me and they told me that it what happened was for nerves, and they sent me at house.
The next day I didn’t take the examination. I went to visit my brother, when I saw him, I discovered that he had a droopy eyelid and a twisted eye, also he couldn´t remember anything and he was talking inconsistencies, and I fainted again.
For a month, my brother didn’t remember anything and he seemed a crazy, because he said a lot of nonsense, I cried much because I didn’t endure to see my brother so and I thought that it was my responsibility because when he crashed, he was going for me to university. With time, he improved, it was a slow and painful process because he seemed a child, my mother had to bathe him and feed him and he learned to walk again.
Now, my brother has his normal eyes and his memories intact and I didn’t faint again.
By Monica Bernal Rua
When I was a child, I had to be always doing something. Thus, a boring night I was looking for something to do.
ReplyDeleteWalking around the house I saw two lighters; the first one was over and the other one was new. So I began burning the backside of the old lighter whit the new one. I didn´t think that anything could happen, I was just doing it; when suddenly the warmed up lighter exploded making a loud noise and everybody in the house run to me. I wasn`t hurt but my head felt hot and I could smell a strange odor: !My head was on fire and my hair was being burnt!. My father saw my on fired head and he brought a blanket and covered my head.
I was ok, nothing serios happened to me; I had just lost my hair and all my family was very angry. I had to cut my hair and obviously I couldn´t ever play whit fire again.
By Juan Diego Giraldo Soto
When I was thirteen, a cousin came to my house to spend the night, my cousin's name is robert, we was on vacation and that night we was on a party for my other cousin Catalina, the night was very good. at the other day mi cousin Rober and me went to play soccer but all the fields was occupied, so we was walking and looking for a free field, suddenly we hear some shots, we was so scared my cousin started to run, so I too started to run, when I was running I felt something in my head, that make me run some more steps, I went to a house and I touch my head I fell something like a rock so I asked a girl what was that, she say that it is a bullet, you will die, so I started to cry and run out of the house, I search my cousin and we went to home, there he say all at my mom and she was really scare so we took a taxi a went to a hospital, there the doctor give me an anesthesia injection and take the thing on my head, then he told me that it was a part of a bullet like if the bullet hit something harder and break in some parts and that was one of the parts, the doctor too says that I am very luck because if the bullet part give in another place I was dead but the bullet part give me in a small part and that small part is a safe part, then I spend all the day and they make some test and in the night they say that I was ok, they give some pills for the stress and that was all.
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When I was two, I burned my left foot whit hot oil. All happened one day when I just woke up, and my mom was giving me the dinner.
ReplyDeleteIn that moment my dad got home, then my mother stood up to do my father's dinner and she went into the kitchen, so, I went to follow her, but as I was wearing socks, she didn't feel when I get insede to the kitchen; then I started to play on the stove top and suddenly it fell over me and hit me; when my mother picked me up, just my left foot was burned by the stove.
I was hospitalized for several days because it was a third degree burn. I don't remember the situation , but my mother told me about it. And it was a difficult and painfull situation.