N°4 Report

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Silent volcano

A report by Enzo Calquín

A girl's life gets affected by a volcanic eruption. The eruption erased many houses which were built with effort and work of several families, including the one of a young girl who just bought a new house with a huge loan. A lifetime going to trash while the lava burnt all the houses nearby. 

First of all, I wanted to know what happened to this little girl. Her answer was shocking. Her house, her car and everything that she had, was burned by the lava. She was alive, scared and exhausted by this incident. She could contact her family and they were in good conditions. They were going to a shelter thanks to the rescue team who had managed to save them in time. When I asked her about the rescue team, I knew that her situation in that moment was quite hopeless.

Her story was complete anguish and grief. She thought that the rescue team had forgotten her and everybody else. She was nervous, totally desperate. She did not know what to do nor to think. Besides, she encountered people who were robbing abandoned houses. But not everything is black in this life. Some of the people she found were important for her. In middle of her mental blackout, they told her to evacuate, and it was in that moment, that she realized the situation that she was involved in. 

After this astonishing statement, I decided to talk about different things. I asked her about the volcano. She woke up because of her neighbours’ screaming. But she did not know the time at which the volcano erupted. She also told me something important. After the volcano erupted, she saw lightings above the volcano that lasted a significant time. Besides the awful incident that harmed many locals, I just wanted to know her feelings and thoughts. What she most wanted to know was about her family, she felt pretty anxious by not being able to know official statements and communicate with her love ones. But, what impressed me the most was that any girl at that time would be very scared, instead, she told me that she would be happy to help her neighbours to save their belongings. 

As we can see, in dark clouds you can always see a sign of a rainbow. This girl proves it. In middle of all adversity and harshness, she still wanted to help others as much as she could.