Shakira Pop Festival concert in Bogota, Colombia

“It was a day like no other for some people; a day that they will never forget”- said a man from the audience. “When you walked you could feel broken glass under your shoes but that wasn´t enough to stop jumping and dancing”- he replied.

More than 3000 people assisted to the Colombian singer and dancer Shakira´s appearance in Bogota´s Simon Bolivar Park on March 12^th 2011. People were standing in line since about six o´clock in the morning until eleven o´clock; those were the first people in the concert. There were three different tickets: ¨Preferencial¨, ¨VIP¨ and the best ticket ¨Platino¨, many people from Colombian television were there, Melissa Giraldo, Lincoln Palomeque, Carla Giraldo, and more.

The concert started at two o´clock with the Colombian band ¨Bomba Estereo¨, then the Colombian rap singer ¨J Balvin¨, after him the Mexican band ¨Belanova¨ made their appearance, after them came the north American band ¨Train¨ and finally Shakira closed the concert.

At 7:45 p.m. appeared Shakira dressed with a pink dress walking between the audience singing ¨Pienso en ti¨, she jumped in to the stage and she ripped her dress down, then she smiled to the audience saying “Thank you for being here with me this night, my only wish is for you to have a good time, I’m here to do what you want and remember Colombia that this night, like always,  I´m all yours! ”, the Colombian singer sang for two hours. Then she sang ¨Pienso en ti¨, ¨años luz¨, ¨te dejo madrid¨, ¨si te vas¨, ¨Inevitable ¨,¨Metallica´s ¨Nothing Else Matters¨,¨La despedida¨, ¨Gitana¨, ¨Tortura¨, ¨Sale el sol¨, ¨Ciega, sordomuda¨,  ¨Las de la intuición¨,¨Loca¨, ¨Loba¨, ¨Ojos asi¨,  ¨Antes de las seis¨, ¨Hips don´t lie¨ and finally closed the concert with ¨Waka waka¨, then she said “Thank you my country ”. This concert was also seen at Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla and Cartagena- Colombia.

Natural disaster in Japan

Monday, may 13^th, 2011

Last Friday an earthquake with 9, 0 M_W  magnitude occurred in Japan, after that a tsunami hit the coasts. Last but not least, yesterday a nuclear reactor in Fukushima exploded. Eleven people were hurt in the reactor number three of the nuclear plant number one of Fukushima, informed the Tokyo electric energy company.

Its 9, 0 M_W magnitude made it the worst earthquake occurred in Japan and the fifth in the whole world.  A couple of hours after the earthquake and the tsunami, the Kangetang volcano of the Celebres islands Indonesia erupted in consequence of the initial earthquake. NASA helped by satellite images have proved that the telluric movement could have moved the Japanese island approximately 2,4 m, and altered the terrestrial axe approximately 10 cm.

Greenpeace accused Japan of hiding information of the tragedy in the nuclear center
Greenpeace, the ambient organization accused the Japanese government this Sunday for hiding key information after the accident in one of the nuclear reactor son the earthquake last Friday.
"The gestation of the information by the Japanese government was absolutely irresponsible", declared Christoph Von Lieven, expert in energy organization.
Von Lieven said that the place is closed and there is no informs by the government or administrators about it.

December 8th 1980

Mark David Chapman was born in Texas, he had an obsession with Christianity, he was also John Lennon´s fan, J.D Salinger´s book ¨The Catcher in the Rye¨ was very important in his life because when he lived in Honolulu he tried to suicide himself and he tried to mold his life as Holden Caulfield´s, the main character from the book.

It was December eight, 1980. That morning Chapman had went to a music store and he bought John Lennon´s last album, then he went to the Dakota Building, where John lived and he waited him to come out, a couple of hours later John came out with his wife Yoko Ono, before they got on the limo Chapman passed John the album, he signed it and said ¨Anything else? ¨ Chapman answered ¨No¨ ¨Are you sure? ¨ Lennon insisted but Chapman nodded his head. In the moment that John signed the album, Paul a photographer who was taking pictures nearby took a picture in the exact moment.

Mark went back to his hotel room, he organized his identification papers and he got ready for the big moment, months before he had listened to John Lennon´s song ¨Imagine¨ in the fraction where he quotes ¨Imagine there is no heaven¨ and ¨imagine no religion¨ he decided he had to kill him for being an hypocrite.

It was almost midnight; Chapman had passed a long time talking with Paul who had already left and he staid a while standing next to the Dakota building when suddenly he saw John´s white limo arriving, he just watched. Yoko Ono came out, behind her came John Lennon. Chapman opened his legs and aimed with his both hands on his .38 revolver saying ¨Mr. Lennon¨. While John looked back four flat bullets hit his back, he fell on the floor. Yoko just screamed for help. John got to where she was and said ¨I´m shot¨, The Dakota´s doorman said to Chapman ¨You know what you’ve done?¨ ¨Yes, I just shot John Lennon¨ he answered.

Mark sat on the sidewalk reading ¨The catcher in the rye¨ while John was dying in the building´s entrance, Chapman just waited for the police to arrive, right there sitting over the sidewalk.

Juan Pablo Lievano 9B