TSUNAMI by gemma aleixandre

TSUNAMI

On December 26, in the 2004, there was an earthquake four thousand meters deep in the Indian Ocean, About 260 kilometres west of the coast of Aceh (Indonesia).
I think this catastrophe is a very important fact in history, because died many people, other people were wounded and it caused a huge damage.
The earthquake took place near the island of Sumatra, Because two tectonic plates, the Australian and Eurasian clashed, caused tremors throughout the region west.
This movement in turn displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water and generated a tsunami or tidal wave. The wave then spread throughout the Indian Ocean with an enormous speed. It caused chaos. At 9 degrees. For the next 15 minutes to 10 hours occurred multiple tsunamis.They reached 15 metres high that struck across the region on the Indian Ocean coast especially devastating parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
In Somalia (in Africa to 4100 km.'s Epicenter) there were such abroad effects thatcaused waves that have travelled the Pacific Ocean causing unrest in the tides of North and South America.



The consequences of the tsunami were:



-230,000 people killed, about 2 million will need humanitarian aid, and about 5 million have been left homeless
-Decreased tourism in these countries
-The earthquake also caused a slight alteration on the speed of rotation of the earth and cut the length of day by three microseconds.

Abduction of my class ELENA ARPA

This story isn’t so important for humanity, but for me…is very important.

The 18th of November ,2002 (when I was eleven years old) in my old school, Casal dels Angels, at half past four, a youg boy of 17 years got in my class. They say he came to school and climbed the stairs wearing a ski mask and pulled out the knife.

When he entered the class he caught the knife and put it in as child's neck. Suddenly the English teacher left the classroom and the other children we stayed inside. We did not understand what was happening but we knew that it was wrong. Suddenly, the strange boy closed the door and threw furniture and dictionnaries to the door, breaking it. We ran to the window and saw our friends leaving the school. We were terrified. We were very frightened. We did not know the boy and he had a knife! It was horrible.

We asked for help and he shouted :" Silence! Close your mouth! " The window of the class was inside and that's why we could not see people or anyone. All were gone, and we cried and pried in the window.

Behind the door was somebody. They spoke with the boy and the boy asked them money, and half a million ptas for his family.
So we spent four hours. We saw many policemen climbing the stairs. Until that a child asked for water because he wanted to drink. Then the boy said it would leave out sixteen children in four groups of four, but in my class we were twenty children, and four children(one girl and three boys)stayed inside. The girl, my friend Judit said that he was her brother, but he said: "No no, it is imposible, me, your brother? No! "She touched his shoes and shouted his name: "Norberto, why are you doing this?"

We were coming out in groups of four and the most courageous and his sister remained inside. We came to the library and later we went out with our parents that we were expecting sad and scared in a room. Everybody was nervous because we thought the boy (Norberto)was going to hurt someone. Everyone cried and my parents too.

The last four came thanks to a police officer disguised as a waiter, brought some pizzas that the boy and the children had asked (they were hungry) and managed to enter. Our friends explained why they were very scared, because many policemen with guns came and took away the Judit's brother(Norberto).
My little brother and the other schoolmates went to IES SANTA EULÀLIA.

To sum up it was a horrible afternoon.
Finally everything went well, the newspapers and television recorded us when we left the school and everybody was welcoming us
Later we it was revealed that the boy was 17 years old and he was a former student of the school and that it had a sister, my friend Judith. The boy was sent away for 5 months into a reformatory.

THE CAT MARIA COZ

This a mammalian carnivorous and domestic animal.

He has the round head, eyes that they adapt to the night vision, soft and thick hair.
It has a long tail and short legs. He eats meat.
They like to play very much, and with wool.
They are small some of them live in the street because sometimes they escape from their families.
VERY GOOD, MARIA!

THE BROWN BEAR DAVID FORONDA

THE BROWN BEAR

DAVID FORONDA

4º "A"

Man has been exploiting beautiful in the world.this is not acceptable.

There are many endangered animals, as such the brown bear .this type of bears are fast and agile animals although its size is very BIG . It can reach nearly 150 kilograms and measure two meters . Also dolfins are endangered although it is a nice animal and many people like it because is an animal beautiful and exotic.

This article can open your eyes.