BUCARAMANGA

BUCARAMANGA


Bucaramanga is a very beautiful city and it has many parks; more than 72. For this reason it is called “The city of the parks”.

A park is a public and tourist space where the people usually go and do different activities with their family or friends on weekends. The most common activities that people do in these places are for example: eat corn on the comb, wafers, and other popular food.
It’s a safe place for children because they can play and enjoy without any problem. However it is important that they are with their parents.
The parks in Bucaramanga are not only made for in order to provide amusement but also to serve as oxygen producers and contribute with people’s health.

On weekend you can find in these places policemen taking care to the citizens, for their security. Unfortunately on weekdays the people have to live with the gridlock, because now a park is like a house for burglars and drugs addicts.
Other problem is impolite people, who don’t put the garbage in the baskets, increasing pollution.

These are the most important parks in Bucaramanga:
Antonia Santos
Centenario
Bolivar
Parque de los Niños
Water park
Luis Carlos Galan
San Pio
Cigarras
Turbay

The most important park in Bucaramanga is Parque del Agua (Water Park). It was created by the Aqueduct of the city. The objective is to be a meeting place where people meet without social levels and for the development of life quality. Create parks is create citizen’s welfare.
The park is called for a function education of big importance. Water is a limited resource and is necessary its preservation.

Unfortunately there are parks like Bolivar Park that had been deteriorated by burglars and drug addicts, for that reason this king of people had called this park like “The hotel”. People are very frightened, because there are many children that have been hold up, so they demand to the authorities and government for more security.

Actually the authorities are realizing campaigns for the preservation of these parks. The goal is to increase the security with more policemen at nights. This would help to eliminate the gridlock and pollution in these places.

BURGLARS

BURGLARS…


On May a day before my birthday I was alone in my house in Barrancabermeja. I was watching TV, suddenly someone knocked the door, I opened it and there were three men. A black man asked me for my father, so I said him “In this moment my father is working, maybe tomorrow in the morning my father is here” …the black man wanted water, I went to the kitchen and gave him a glass of water …in that moment he showed me a gun and said me “Don’t say nothing, shut up”. They went into the living room, my dog began to bark and the black man said “Shut up dog or I`ll kill you”. I was really frightened, my dog was with me. The burglars only said “where’s the money, you know that your father has money here” I didn’t say nothing, so they began to look for it in the bedrooms and in the kitchen. I knew that because they were in mess. While they were in other rooms I stayed in my bedroom’s brother with my dog and I thought “when the black man finish, he’ll kill me”, I thought that because I saw his face. Finally they found some money, they were very happy and I was nervous.
Nobody was near my house that was great for the burglars. They brought other things like my mother’s jewels. At about 8:00pm the black man said me “Thank you very much you’re very kind” he laughed and went out of my house. I was very very angry. I called my mother and told her what happened, I was crying and my mother worried arrived at home very fast. When she arrived, a “paraco” appeared, but was very late.
Three weeks after I saw the news and the burglars were seized by the police because they had been stolen in other places, that was the best new for me that day.
I haven`t forgotten the black man face.

LETTER

Conjunto Residencial los Sauces
Real de Minas
Calle 63A 1-75
Bucaramanga, Colombia
20 October

Dear Alejandro
I hope you´re well. I’m very excited because you will be here with me and my family on December, they`re excited too.
I miss you a lot, I haven`t seen you since we were children, so I think that you look different, I have seen you in photos but it isn`t the same.
I finished my career, now I`m an electronic technologist, the next year I´m going to begin the electronic engineering, at the moment I’m just studying English and I’ve been looking for a job. I sent some CV to Barrancabermeja, I don`t want to work there, maybe in three years when I had studied the electronic engineer…ahhhh and you know that I hate the weather…it`s very hot, but my mother, she really wants that I work in Barrancabermeja, every day the most part of the time she stays alone at home, my father works in the enterprise and when he finished it, he has lunch at home and after it he goes to make electronic works, so my mother is very happy when me or my brother travel to visit them… my father too.
About my brother, he got a new job at Telebucaramanga and he got married with Rosa, she`s really nice, she`s a secretary and is working at Clinica Chicamocha I have been living with them five months ago. We found an apartment near to UTS because we’re going to continue our studies.
Bucaramanga is more exciting than Barrancabermeja. In Barranca there aren`t shopping centers and neither cinemas so it’s kind of boring, but people in Barrancabermeja are very nice and kind, I prefer them… In Barranca have been building shop centers and other things, that are important for the development of the city.
When you are here you can give your opinion.


See you son
Xiomara

FAMOUS PERSON

AXEL ROSE


I decided to write about this person because I love him, he’s a very handsome man… I like listening his music.
He`s real name is William Bruce Rose, Jr, frequently called Axl Rose, is an American musician. Rose was born in Lafayette, Indiana in February 6, 1962. His parents are Sharon E. and William Rose. His father left the family when Rose was two years old. As an adult, after recovering repressed memories in therapy, Rose publicly stated that he was sexually abused by his biological father.
His mother remarried when he was a small child. She changed his name to William Bailey, using the last name of her new husband, L. Stephen Bailey.
That you can see Rose grew up in a troubled family environment. His love of music was fostered by singing in church, participating in school chorus and studying piano.
He was in trouble numerous times with the police and was arrested over twenty times on charges such as public drunkenness and assault. At age 16, he was kicked out of his house for not cutting his hair. At this age, Rose also met Izzy Stradlin in a driver's education class. Both bonded over their love of rock music and eventually started playing in bands together. Stradlin eventually left Rose, and Indiana, to go to Los Angeles and focus on music.
When he was 17, on the advice of his lawyer, he left Indiana and began hitchhiking and taking buses across the country. Although he returned to Indiana to visit family from time to time, he left for good in December 1982 and moved to Los Angeles, accompanied by a girlfriend.

Once in Los Angeles, Rose began performing with various local bands, including Rapidfire, Rose, L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose.
Rose and his L.A. Guns bandmate Tracii Guns formed Guns N' Roses in March 1985. The band was a merger of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose, and featured musicians who had played for one or both groups, including Ole Beich and Duff McKagan. The band debuted at the Troubadour in Hollywood and proceeded to play the L.A. circuit, eventually building a fan following and attracting the attention of several record companies. The lineup eventually solidified with Rose on vocals, Slash on lead guitar, Izzy Stradlin on rhythm guitar, Duff McKagan on bass and Steven Adler on drums. Guns N' Roses was signed to Geffen Records in 1986.
The band's major label debut album, entitled Appetite for Destruction, was released in the United States on July 21, 1987. The record had a slow start, selling only 500,000 copies in the first year of its release. However, fueled by relentless touring and the mainstream success of the single "Sweet Child of Mine", Appetite for Destruction rose to the #1 position on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States in the fall of 1988. To date, Appetite for Destruction ranks as the fourth best-selling debut album in the United States, has been certified 15x platinum by the RIAA, and has sold over 27 million copies.
With the success of Appetite for Destruction Rose found himself lauded as one of rock's most prominent frontmen. In a 1990 interview with MTV, journalist Kurt Loder referred to Rose as "maybe the finest hard rock singer currently on the scene, and certainly the most charismatic." He was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in August 1989 and again in April 1992.
With enough music for two albums, the band released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II on September 17, 1991. The tactic paid off when the albums debuted at #2 and #1 respectively on the Billboard chart, setting a record as Guns N' Roses became the first and only group to date to achieve this feat. The albums spent 108 weeks on the chart.
In the late spring of 1991, before the Illusion albums were released, Guns N' Roses embarked on the 28-month-long Use Your Illusion World Tour. It became famous for both its financial success and the many controversial incidents that occurred at the shows.
During the tour, Rose demanded, and received, sole ownership of the Guns N' Roses name from bandmates Slash and McKagan. His relationships with his bandmates became increasingly strained: Izzy Stradlin left the group voluntarily on November 7, 1991, and was replaced by former Kill For Thrills guitarist Gilby Clarke for the remainder of the two-year tour. Clarke himself left in 1994, and was replaced by Rose's childhood friend Paul Tobias. When Rose replaced Slash's guitar parts with those of Tobias on the band's cover version of the Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil" for the soundtrack of the film Interview with the Vampire, tension increased further. Slash, McKagan and Sorum all left Guns N' Roses at various points between 1996 and 1997, leaving Rose and keyboardist Dizzy Reed as the only remaining Illusion-era members of the band.
Slash and McKagan have also filed several lawsuits against Rose for matters related to control and administration of the songs in the Guns N' Roses catalog. One of the cases, in which McKagan and Slash stated that they had been denied royalty checks for Guns N' Roses's sales in 2005, was determined to be the result of a clerical error by ASCAP and was resolved.
As the stability of Guns N' Roses collapsed, Rose began to withdraw from public view. By the late 1990s, he was considered to be a recluse, rarely making public appearances and spending most of his time holed up in his mansion in Malibu. In various reports in the press, he was referred to as the "Howard Hughes of rock" and "rock's greatest recluse". Rose was said to spend his nights rehearsing and writing with the various new lineups of Guns N' Roses, working on the band's next album, Chinese Democracy.
In a rare interview with Rolling Stone in 2006, Rose shed more light on his long awaited Chinese Democracy album. "We're working on 32 songs, and 26 are nearly done," he said in the interview. "People will hear music this year," he said. "It's a very complex record; I'm trying to do something different. Some of the arrangements are kind of like Queen. Some people are going to say, 'It doesn't sound like Axl Rose, it doesn't sound like Guns N' Roses.' But you'll like at least a few songs on there."
Guns N' Roses resurfaced with concert tours in 2002 and again in 2006. The band, now consisting of Rose, Dizzy Reed, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (replacing Buckethead), performed their first live concerts in the United States in over three years on May 12, May 14, May 15, and May 17, 2006 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. They also performed in Madrid on May 25 and in Lisbon (Rock in Rio) on May 27 to an audience of over 50,000.
On May 6, 2006, Rose appeared on the Eddie Trunk radio show and promised that the album would be released sometime in the fall or late fall 2006.
On August 31, 2006, Rose presented The Killers at the MTV Video Music Awards by coming out onto the stage and screaming his trademark, "Do you know where the fuck you are?" In an interview backstage, Rose revealed that the official Chinese Democracy tour would begin "around October 24th", and that the album would be out that year.
On December 15, 2006, Rose issued an open letter to Guns N' Roses fans, discussing, among other things, the reasons why Chinese Democracy had not been released yet. The letter promised that the album would appear in 2007, and named March 6 as a tentative release date. However, the album's release date has since been pushed back once again.
In 2007, Rose collaborated with long time friend Sebastian Bach on his solo album Angel Down, doing a duet with Bach on a cover of the Aerosmith song "Back in the Saddle". Rose also performed backing vocals on "Love is a Bitchslap" and "Stuck Inside", for which he was credited as a co-writer.

CV

Conjunto Residencial los Sauces
Calle 63A 1-75
Real de Minas

Servicios de Comunicaciones
PRECOOM PCTA
Avenida Bùcaros 60-09
Bucaramanga


Mr Camargo

I am writing in response to your advertisement, which I saw in Vanguardia Liberal news for an electronic technologist who gives technical support.
As you will see from the enclosed CV, I studied Electronics Technology, I consider myself the ideal candidate for the job because I have all the relevant knowledge about telecommunications. I have lots of experience of electronics and telecommunications dispositives.
I am really interested in telecommunications. I am a hard-working person and establish a good working relationship.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,


Xiomara Naycir

CV

NAME: Xiomara Naycir

PERSONAL DETAIL: DOB 06/05/87

ADDRESS: Calle 63A 1-75
Conjunto Residencial los Sauces
Real de Minas

PHONE: 6446230
MOBILE: 316 4376427

Email: Xiomy_naycir@hotmail.com

PROFILE: I’m a hardworking electronic technologist, dedicated and quick learner. I also have the skills to adapt quickly to new and changing environment and I`m always interested in professional self-improvement.

EDUCATION:

Primary School
FERTICOL
High School
Instituto Técnico Superior de Comercio
University
Unidades Tecnológicas de Santander
Electronic Technology


WORK EXPERIENCE:

February 2008
Electronic Maintenance at UTS

May 2008
Call bank receptionist at Atento

INTERESTS:
The telecommunication systems and control systems in industrial electronic.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
One of my main interests are the telecommunication systems, its design and construction. I don`t have any work experience about it but thanks to my academic experience I have knowledge about telecommunication systems, so I can work in this area.

REFERENCES:
Joaquin Ardila
Head Teacher
Unidades Tecnológicas de Santander

Katherine Acosta
Immediate Boss
Atento Bucaramanga