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Historical Narrative

LA PLATA’S FLOOD OF 2013
The flood
In April 2, 2013, a heavy rainfall caused a severe flood that broke a record for April in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina accumulating 190 mm, two times the usual amount of rainfall expected for the whole month, in a period of just 4 hours.
Why did it this happened?
It is thought that the main causes of the flood were due to the fact that the drainage system wasn’t working properly, there are immediate climate changes and the city is growing without an environmental conscience.  But there are other causes that could have helped the flood develop, such as the accumulation of rubbish on the drains and the deforestation in the North of Argentina.
Consequences
This lasted 1 day (from April 2 - 3), but it affected more than 19000 people, at least 70000 houses were invaded by the water and more than 500 millions of pesos were lost. It also took away with it what at first was thought of 54 lives, but this year, 2014, it was confirmed that the flood ate 89 bodies.
We asked different questions to people that had experienced the catastrophe: What did you do when you saw the water? ‘’The first thing I thought when I saw the water was to go and look for my children and see how we could save our lives so we didn't drowned. At that time I couldn't think of anything, I did everything I could. Then, you think about all the things you lost and it hurts, although we are lucky that we didn’t died DIE." says Natalia Rivero.
Have you lost your things? How do you feel about that? ‘’It was one of the most horrible things I have ever experienced. I saw how my house was swallowed by the water, even my pets. When I think about all the things that I lost and that if I had reacted some minutes sooner I could have saved everything, I feel stupid and empty inside, but then, I remember that I haven't lost my life. That would have been terrible for me and for my family. Luckily, I haven't lost any member of my family or any friends. Some people lost their whole family and are now alone, without a place to live. My sister is very lucky because the water didn't reach her neighborhood. I’m now living with her and her family. At least, I have a place to live.’’, Carlos Fernández shares his experience with us.
Solidarity
Millions of people from different parts of the country were moved by the victims of the catastrophe. Many of them donated clothes, food, and everything they could to make the recovery of their lives easier.
We asked a victim how she felt about this: "It was incredible, we were receiving help from millions of people. Words are not enough to say how I felt about the solidarity of the people we didn't even know. Also, it made me remember that we were not alone in the recovery," says victim Daniela Martínez about the help she received. The only good thing that brought the catastrophe was the solidarity of the country.
Let's pray for everyone who lost things, specially for the ones who lost their lives and their families. Let's hope this doesn't happen again.

View from a satellite of La Plata.

One of the affected streets.

The creation of the lions

1- What were the names of the animals?
2- Who saved them?
3- Who was the god that sent them saviour?

1- The names of the animals were Jim, Jam, Jeff and July.
2- The lions sent by Hammurabi saved them.
3- The name of the god was Hammurabi.

Katomba's myth

Katomba was son of the great god Zeus. He was the god of the seas. He always helped mortals to make their lives with the seas easier and rarely got angry with them, he was one of the kindest gods ever. He loved his job, as everyone in the Olympus did. Everyone except for his brother, Poseidon. Poseidon was the god of the wind, but for him, this job was very unexciting and difficult. He wanted to be the god of the seas since he was young, but Katomba already was.
He thought of many ways to steal Katomba's job, but all his plans were useless. But one day he thought of a great game to fool his brother, this plan could never fail.

One day Katomba was very cheerful and wanted to found a god to play with. And on top of a cloud, Poseidon his brother, was also searching for someone to play with. In that moment he heard “Poseidon, Poseidon! Let's play a game”.
He went down and found Katomba that was waiting for him. In that moment poseidon said "We will play the trunk game", that consisted on getting into a trunk that Poseidon made; The objective was to resist as much time as it could to win the game.But what Katomba and the other gods didn't know was that the Winner would change powers with the Looser. When it finished Poseidon won and Katomba loose, the eldest brother said “Now yo u are the wind god and I am ocean god!!!! Thank you for playing my beautiful game, brother".

Katomba was furious. He was fooled by his own brother, but soon he had an idea: his father could return him to his beautiful, sunny coasts. He thought it was going to be very easy to convince him, but it wasn´t. Apparently, his oldest brother, Poseidon, was better than him making waves and pushing boats, and that was what make Zeus don´t allow Katomba return to his old job. But finally he makes a decision he make his son the God of a powder that was spread in the center of the Pangea. This giant piece of land, as many people know nowadays, started to divide throughout the years and this light-brown powder was spread in some of the coast of what now are continents. Letting Katomba be near his brother , the seas, with the shape of “Sand”.

By: Nazarena Ballesteros,  Martín Errarte and Agustina Rivarola.

Síndrome Urémico Hemolítico

El Síndrome Urémico Hemolítico (SUH) ha estado recorriendo las noticias recientemente, entonces investigué acerca de él e hice una presentación para mostrar un poco de información.

Policlínico Vírgen de Guadalupe

El día martes 21/10 establecimos una conexión vía Hangouts con el doctor José Vega Chanchafé. El dr. se encuentra en Mongomo, Guienea Ecuatorial trabajando en el Policlínico Vírgen de Guadalupe de Mongomo como pediatra.
Durante la charla, el  doctor contó acerca de las enfermedades m ás frecuentes, enfermedades que no se ecuentran en la Argentina, sus experiencias como médico en África entre otras cosas.

Hospital donde se encuentra trabajando el doctor. 

¿Qué es el Ébola?

El virus del Ébola fue descubierto en 1976 y resurgió en 2013 en África occidental con al rededor de 4.000 muertes. Los murciélagos son los principales portadores del virus del Ébola, pero también puede contagiarse mediante la caza o mordedura de animales infectados o contacto con los fluidos de una persona infectada.

Hay diferentes etapas, los síntomas pueden comenzar de 2 a 21 días después de contraer el virus. La tasa de mortalidad de este virus es muy elevada, casi del 50%, por lo cual es muy importante prevenir el contagio del virus.

Fuente

El siguiente vídeo explica más ampliamente la información del texto anterior.

Travail spécial d' intégration

Hice una descripción de un personaje en francés, y luego lo pasé a una historieta usando el programa Pixton.