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Shakira´s speech at Oxford University

DRAW A house, a tree, some bushes,the sun, some water and a snake 

THEIR MARRIAGE WAS

A PERFECT UNION OF TRUST

AND UNDERSTANDING. THEY SHARED

EVERYTHING- EXCEPT HIS DESK DRAWER,

WHICH, THROUGH THE YEARS REMAINED

LOCKED.

ONE DAY, CURIOSITY OVERCAME HER.

PRISED OPEN,

THERE WAS-   NOTHING.

BUT WHY? SHE ASKED.

CONFUSED AND ASHAMED.

"I NEEDED A SPACE OF MY OWN,"

HE REPLIED SADLY

 

ONE DAY  A WOMAN WAS SITTING IN FRONT OF A MIRROR IN HER HOTEL ROOM.
SHE WAS PUTTING ON HER MAKE-UP, GETTING READY TO GO OUT. SUDDENLY, THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. THE WOMAN WENT AND OPENED IT. THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OUTSIDE. HE WAS TALL, DARK AND GOOD-LOOKING. WHEN HE SAW HER, HE SAID:" OH I´M SORRY! I THOUGHT THIS WAS MY ROOM" THEN, HE WALKED ON DOWN THE CORRIDOR, TOWARDS THE LIFT. A FEW SECONDS LATER THE WOMAN PHONED THE RECEPTION DESK AND TOLD THEM TO STOP THE MAN .SHE SAID SHE WAS ALMOST SURE HE WAS A THIEF!!

                             THE  HANGED INNOCENT

A FAMILY OF GERMAN PILGRIMS( FATHER, MOTHER& SON) MAKING THEIR WAY TOWARDS SANTIAGO SPENT THE NIGHT IN SANTO DOMINGO DE LA CALZADA.

WHEN THE INNKEEPER´S DAUGHTER PROPOSITIONED THE SON, HE SPURNED HER; AS HE WAS,AFTER ALL ,ON A PILGRIMAGE. SHE TOOK HER REVENGE BY CONVINCING A FRIEND TO HIDE SOME OF THE CHURCH SILVER IN THE YOUNG MAN´S PACK.

THE NEXT DAY SHE NOTIFIED THE AUTHORITIES. THEY ARRESTED THE PILGRIMS AND FOUND THE SILVER. AS A RESULT, THEY HUNG THE YOUNG MAN FOR THEFT.

IN MEDIEVAL TIMES EXECUTED CRIMINALS WERE LEFT ON THE GIBBET  TO ROT AS A VIVID WARNING OF THE WAGES OF SIN .

THE PARENTS CONTINUED TO COMPOSTELA AND ON THEIR WAY HOME CAME AGAIN TO SANTO DOMINGO DE LA CALZADA. SICK AT HEART, THEY APPROACHED THE GIBBET, WHERE, TO THEIR ASTONISHMENT, THEIR SON CHEERFULLY GREETED THEM:EXPLAINING THAT ST. JAMES OR SANTO DOMINGO KEPT HIM ALIVE BY SUPPORTING HIS WEIGHT THE WHOLE TIME, MIRACLE!!

THE PARENTS RAN TO INFORM THE CITY OFFICIALS THAT THEIR SON WAS STILL ALIVE. THE OFFICIAL, WHO WAS ROASTING CHICKENS FOR DINNER, SCOFFED AT THEIR NEWS, RETORTING THAT THEIR SON WAS AS ALIVE AS HIS ROASTING CHICKENS , WHEREUPON THE CHICKENS REINCORPORATED THEMSELVES AND FLEW CACKLING AWAY......  

 

 

A VAIN STUDENT WHO WAS ON A CROWDED BUS WAS EXPLAINING TO AN ELDERLY MAN SITTING NEXT TO HIM WHY IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE OLDER GENERATION TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW GENERATION " YOU GREW UP IN A DIFFERENT WORLD- ALMOST PRIMITIVE." HE SHOUTED SO THAT EVERYONE AROUND COULD HEAR HIM. " YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY HAVE GROWN UP WITH TV, THE INTERNET,JET PLANES, SPACE TRIPS. OUR SPACE PROBES HAVE REACHED MARS, WE HAVE NUCLEAR POWERED SPACECRAFT, ELECTRICITY AND HYDROGEN DRIVEN CARS. WE HAVE COMPUTERS WHICH PROCESS DATA AT AMAZING SPEED.

THEN , AFTER A BRIEF SILENCE, THE ELDERLY MAN REPLIED: "YOU ARE RIGHT, MY SON , WE DID NOT HAVE THOSE THINGS WHEN WE WERE YOUNG...THAT´S WHY WE INVENTED THEM!! NOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION?

 

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