Sep 2007

At the age of twelve, I did something all embarrassed preteens dream about and few outside the witness protection program ever get a chance at: I reinvented myself. Fed up with my shoddy grades, my mother uprooted me from my uniformed girls’ academy—the kind of place where your status was a coefficient of dodge-ball throwing velocity and midterm math grades—and sent me off to a sort of new-wave experiment in learning where you went around in bare feet and called your teacher Bob. Unless, of course, his name was Sally.

It was the best thing that ever happened to me. Along with the enchanting and terrifying presence of boys, came the beauty of starting with a clean slate. No longer was I the loner who slept through math and found diagramming sentences a complete waste of time. Transplanted, I became a popular, vivacious biology whiz, admired by all for my ability to map out a phrase in Latin or English. I had found my people.

All of you who long to pull into the pit stop of life and have your reputation rotated: your vinous patron saint is Malbec.

Malbec is a grape with a second-rate role in Europe...
Read the article By Jennifer Chotzi Rosen at http://thepassengernews.tripod.com

Jennifer is the author of, “Waiter, There’s a Horse in My Wine”, and “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine” (those are the central page of "The passenger news" )

By Macacha, Hola-yosoy@argentina.com
The old people of the place says that Esteco was a very rich city. That all there was made of gold and of silver. That people were bad and proud. That when someone predicted them that the city will get lost for a tremor they deceived and they went to the stores to buy bands of color tremor. When they dropped something of silver they didn't bend over to pick up it. It is said that God came and predicted the punishment and asked for somewhere to stay at.
Only a very poor woman put up him and she believed him. When Esteco got lost, God left the city with the woman and her baby. He had ask her that she must not give turn, but the woman turn to have a view of the city and she became stone.
Twice Esteco has gotten lost, the city has been in two parts. They say that the first Esteco has collapsed in a lagoon. The other Esteco has collapsed in the earth for an earthquake and now there is not but that mount.

Complete with the Past tense:
a)Pretérito Imperfecto: Era, Eran, debía, Habían, estaban, levantaba, resplandecían
b)Pretérito Indefinido: rió, pidió, salió, llegó, volvió, ayudó, tembló, hundió, escuchó, obedeció, transformó

La ciudad de Esteco _ _ _ la más rica y poderosa de las ciudades del norte argentino. Se _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ en medio de un fértil y hermoso paisaje de la provincia de Salta. Sus magníficos edificios _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ revestidos de oro y plata.
Los habitantes de Esteco e s t a b a n orgullosos de su ciudad y de la riqueza que _ _ _ _ _ _ acumulado.
Pero _ _ _ _ soberbios y petulantes.
Un día un viejo misionero _ _ _ _ _ a la ciudad para salvarla del castigo con terremotos. Él _ _ _ _ _ humildad pero todo el mundo se _ _ _, sólo una mujer lo _ _ _ _ _ _ _ y _ _ _ _ _. Le dijo que salga de la ciudad a la madrugada pero que _ _ _ _ _ acatar una condición: no volver la cabeza para mirar hacia atrás.
La mujer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ y _ _ _ _ _ con su hijo en brazos.La tierra _ _ _ _ _ _ y la ciudad se _ _ _ _ _ _. Por curiosidad la mujer _ _ _ _ _ _ la cabeza y en el acto se _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ en una estatua de piedra.