3B Have you ever helped or been helped by a stranger? by Esther Gonzalez https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq Post your texts or recordings here. Approx. 75-100 words en-us 2022-04-22 10:05:02 UTC 2022-06-08 21:30:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Example: The angel (click to enlarge) esther31 https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2153393410 2022-04-22 10:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2153393410 THE WIRE STRIPPER https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2160375342 Two years ago more or less, it had been a long time since in my neighbourhood I saw a bum from time to time sitting on a bench stripping wires to extract the copper.

It wasn't easy to remove the copper with a razor, so one day I decided to help him. In my work we had a special tool to do this task in a more comfortable way, so I decided to buy one on Amazon and give it to him. The day I did it and explained to him how it worked, he looked at me in disbelief and shook my hand thanking me.

I felt good, I felt that I had helped another person a little to earn a little more money, improving his life a little.

Jordi Sánchez

]]> 2022-04-27 13:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2160375342 The good woman https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2160969001 When I was young and I was  eighteen years old, I estudied in Barcelona.
Every day, I travelled to Canovelles from Barcelona by train.

One day, when I arrived  at the station, I didn,t find the train ticket. Moreover, I didn´t have money so I got .
nervous.
One old woman asked me what happened.
After that, she bought me the train ticket, and I thanked her.

Finally, I was able to return home.

Neus Llamas]]> 2022-04-27 19:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2160969001 A boat trip to The Medes Islands mariaisabelcapel https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2164047387
Imma and me were camping in l'Estartit for three days. It was at the beginning of June and we were with twenty-six teenagers and two students  teachers helping us. We had booked a boat trip around The Medes Islands for our second day there.

Early in the morning we realized that it was windy. We both agreed to meet the captain because we were afraid the sea would be very choppy. He told us that there was no problem going so close.Then we went to pick up the whole group. Boys and girls boarded the ship happy and excited. As we left the harbor the waves began to move the ship more and more…

At first some of the students started complaining of headache, dizziness...The four adults helped them making them sit down to feel safer , telling jokes and giving them bags in case they needed them. The captain was sure he would control the situation and continued his way around the islands. Nevertheless I could see the rocks getting closer, the boat going up and down pushed by the strong waves and I imagined the young people in the water and me alone going to save them, because almost all the students and the other three adults were dizzy too, sitting or lying on the boat...

I reacted immediately and I encouraged three guys who were feeling well to help their classmates with me. So we refreshed, cleaned ... the rest of the group and distracted them too, singing and shouting to the beat of the waves until we, finally, arrived at the port.

I don't know what or who helped me to stay clear … (I'm usually very scared of the open sea), but I haven't been to The Medes Islands ever again.

Isabel Capel

 
]]> 2022-04-29 09:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2164047387 A traffic accident https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2164634158 This happennedg one day  being at work. I was talking on the phone when  suddenly I heard a loud noise.
I went out to the street and there was a man lying on the road. A car had jumped a traffic light crashing with a motorbike.
The biker was senseless and the driver wasn't able to go out of  the car because  He was  in shock. Moreover,There were a lot of people  watching. I quickly called the police office explaining them about the situation and place of accident also asked them for got an ambulance. A few minutes later arrived an ambulance and the police .The biker looked well . After that, I returned to my work.

Montse t]]> 2022-04-29 17:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2164634158 A single detail https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2165673636 Thirty years ago, three friends (two friends and I ?)decided to do the way of Saint James by cycle. They We had met a few times to prepare the route.

All the details were ready. They We started in Jaca so they we needed a van to go there. They We had thought of the stages for each day and the day we would arrive in Saint James, but they we didn’t think of a single detail.

They We arrived in Saint James on the ninth of July; first of all they we were looking for a hostel and then going to visit the Saint James square and the Cathedral. When they we decided to return to the hostel, they we began to walk around the Saint James square and didn’t find the right way. 

At midnight they we decided to ask a young man who was walking in the street where the hostel was, but at that moment we looked at each other, nobody remembered the name of the hostel. The young man helped us until we found the hostel. We started to breathe, he saved us. 

Joan Antoni

]]> 2022-05-01 08:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2165673636 MOTORBIKE THROW rubiomonica7167 https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2165990116 One day some years ago, I went with my son  to buy some food and I parked in a ford.

When I finished we got into the car with bad luck . Unfortunately when I was reversing that I hit the motorbike that it was parked behind me.

The motorbike fell and we got out of the car. We intented to stand up lift the motorbike but It was impossible because it weighed heavily.

My son was very young and I hadn't enough strong strength. I was desesperated desperate because I didn't want to leave the motorbike on the floor.

Suddenly, An estranger appeared, he left his car in the middle of the street and he helped us to stand the motorbike up. I hadn't time to thank him because he disappeared as he appeared.

A lot of thanks to my savior stranger!!!

Mónica Rubio.]]> 2022-05-01 20:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2165990116 A STRANGER WHO WAS HUNGRY https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2166392784 This story happened a summer day in Almeria. I went with my family to the family town to pass spend the holidays.

One night, we left with my uncles from the town to the Party Festivals od in Almeria and a young person appeared to and asked us for money.

My uncle said to him that he wasn't going to give him any, but if the young man wanted he invited him to eat something.
We went to a bar and we asked him ordered potatoes stuffed with meat for him.

This meal was very hot, but the young man put it in his mouth without problems. He had a lot of was very hungry!

We said to him if he wanted to eat something else and the young man told us that with that he had had to spend the day. 
It was touching! This person really needed that someone helped him.

Cristina Galera.

]]> 2022-05-02 06:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2166392784 Kid lost in a supermarket https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2166624391 One day, when I was a kid, I went to a supermarket with my parents to buy something for dinner.

During the time we were there, I stood in the toy aisle and my parents continued shopping without me. When I realized this, I became very sad and started crying.

Later, an old lady asked me why I was crying. I told her that I had lost my parents and that I was alone. She said she would accompany me to the information desk to ask about my parents.

When we arrived, my parents were waiting for me there. My parents thanked the old woman and then we went home.

After that, I never got lost in a supermarket again.

Hector Hurtado

]]> 2022-05-02 11:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2166624391 The police looking for the rapist (Conchi) https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2167407882 Three years ago, more or less, the police: Mossos, came to the health center where I work. The head of the police unit was the husband of my colleague Vanessa. They asked us to help catch a rapist who had tried to rape a woman for a few days. The Police thought the rapist lived in the area and could go to the center for medical assistance. They showed us a video where the rapist was buying something. They showed us his face, his body, his way of walking. 
The next day, when I was coming home from work, I saw the alleged rapist. I was inside my car. I stopped near him and called my colleague Vanessa saying, Vanessa, I’m seeing the rapist. She told me, "Conchi It’s impossible. My husband arrested him this morning." But I was sure the man was the criminal, so I asked to speak to a member of her husband’s team. I explained where I was and who I was seeing. They told me that they would be there in a few minutes. While they were coming I decided to follow the rapist carefully into my car. When the criminal was about to enter his house, the police arrived and arrested him. In the afternoon, Vanessa called me saying the man was the rapist the police were looking for. 
A few months later, the Mossos gave me the certificate of appreciation for the service rendered. 
They was told me that it is unusual for a person to have do this action, so I am proud to do that  and  help make my community safer.

]]> 2022-05-02 21:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2167407882 After the ski accident https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2167946733 Fifteen years ago , I went to ski with three friends in Formigueres in the French Pyrenees.

It was a foggy and cold day and we were going out because it was at 17:00 and the ski station was  closing close.

There were a few cars in the parking lot and one woman and two children came to meet us.

The woman said if we could help him her because his her husband had a ski accident, and the ambulance go went directly to Puigcerda but she didn’t have a car license. We were four and our car was full but I proposed to take his her car and go with them they to Puigcerda. 

First, we went to Puigcerda hospital to see saw her husband and father, I waited outdoor outside with her car during half an hour, then I took them to them their house. Luckily it was near the hospital, I parked in her garage and I phoned my friends so they would come looking for me. I said if he they needed some more help they could call me. But she say told me that her his brother was coming with her sister in law to stay with them and they can could take the car and the family.

She offered me a 50 euros but I rejected , but when my friends arrived one of the children offered us a 2 bottles of wine and we accepted. 

We went to buy some chesses and had a good dinner.

P.S. Some days later the father of the family called me to express his thanksfully. 

Pep Comas
]]> 2022-05-03 08:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2167946733 Old woman in trouble https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168032362 It was a nice sunny spring day, but it was a working day. That day I was in a social security office queuing and suddenly one old woman came into the office, she was really upset and very nervous and she asked me for help. She explained to me very fast that her husband fell out of bed and he was on the ground and she couldn't lift him! Without taking time to think I went with the old woman to a nearby flat, it was on the second floor and I came into the bedroom and on the ground was her husband. I took a big breathe and I lift him to his bed. After that, the old woman was very pleasant with me and she gave me one cold drink, it was a nice experience!]]> 2022-05-03 09:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168032362 The tour guide https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168160428 My wife and I prepared our honeymoon trip on our own. Then we found a local organisation offering cheaper tourist services. They helped people who wanted to learn languages to be able to leave the country or to be able to work as official tour guides. The tourist paid for all the days' expenses in exchange for a lot of language practice with the guide.
The guide was very friendly, it was difficult for him to speak English or Spanish, communication was difficult but he tried not to spend anything, not to eat too much and even not to drink too much in order not to make us spend too much.
The second day, we had decided to give him
enought extra money to cover him all extra costs.
The tourist guide was very thankful thanks and the trip has changed. He showed us some awsome places and he  invited us to his house.
Later we knew that with the tip be able the guide would be able to could pay for his official studies in tourism.

On the other hand, we were very thankful thenks whit to him to live these this special moments.

]]> 2022-05-03 11:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168160428 Help a boy being robbed rodriguezleticia7177 https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168307476 Three or four years ago in summer, I went running through for my town, and when I was arriving  at the train station train, I saw a the children group of children. They apparently were talking or they were playing with their mobiles phones, however when I arrived near them, I saw that they weren't what didn't they were playing but three boys were trying to steal a mobile phone from the other boy. So I started yelling at them to leave him alone. The gang of thieves ran away.
The boy was crying, I tried to calm him down. When he was a little calmer, we called his a your parents with my mobile phone. The parents thanked me for helping their son.
I continued doing sports with my happy heart.
                                                        Leticia]]> 2022-05-03 13:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168307476 Lost in the beach https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168348740 This happened to me when I was a children of 4-5 years old. In the Summer of those years, with my parents and my older brother, we used to go on holidays to Cambrils.

One day, like all the others during our holidays, all the family was doing sunbathing, but I was playing with my beach ball by the water. I remember playing throwing the ball in the quiet waves of the sea and catching it again.

I don't know during how much time I was playing alone, but after a while, when I looked around me, I realized that I was lost.

I remember crying and shouting at for my mom. At that moment, a woman held holded my hand and told me that we would find found my parents. We walked along the beach until we found them.

Enric Rovirosa]]> 2022-05-03 13:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168348740 Surge of the sea cantonaitor7183 https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168918840 During my holidays in Sardinia, my boyfriend and I rescued two children from drowning. We were on a very surfing beach, with many kilometers of sand and many waves. While we were enjoying a swim, we saw that the two children had trouble getting out because the current of water was taking them out to sea. We went swimming where they were and as if they were soccer balls we were throwing them out. It was impossible to swim or to be able to advance through the strong current. After throwing them a couple of times, we managed to reach the shore. Finally, we were able to get out of the water. The children's parents were waiting very scared and thanking us for getting them out of the water. That day we did a good act.]]> 2022-05-03 20:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2168918840 How did we get back? https://padlet.com/esther31/aer8um6j2ficlmdq/wish/2169778529 Years ago, wen i  I was  seventeen, and I was living in Argentona, my friends and I decided that we were going hiking to have a snack on the mountain.
After a very good afternoon, we decided to get back in a different way.
However, We  didn't realise that we were walking in the opposite direction.
We arrived at an unknowing village.  We were in Premia!!!
We started thinking about how to get home. It was complicated since we said we had to take took a train anb bus, and didn't had have money for everyone.
We had to sneak onto the train. But sneaking into the bus was complicated. So we had to ask for money to be able to get on the bus.
a very kind lady paid us for the trip.

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