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Iloca, CHILE
March, 2010
"INNOCENCE BEHIND THE TRAGEDY" A tour to the ruined school at Iloca.
And what about the moment when you experienced the earthquake?
... dangerous... my stomach ached...
Víctor Díaz, 8-year-old survivor
Were you sleeping?
Yeah, I was. They had to wake me up.
And I climbed... do you know how I climbed up the hill?
I climbed barefoot...
and with no underwear.
It seems help is coming...
What?
A truck passed, with sleeping bags, tents and stuff,
And they didn't... they didn't... They just passed by!
It didn't go to your place?
I didn't stop there! We were there, and it didn't stop. It just went away...
And they didn't give us sleeping bags... we need blankets (mispronounced) and stuff like that,
but... it just went away...
we couldn't catch it.
Where are we going now?
To my school, over here.
Have you heard anything from your classmates?
No,
No?
No, but I've heard from Belén, and from Nati...
But they are ok.
They're ok.
Show us your school.
Where are we now?
In the dining room
Here's the dining room, but it's all broken
What was the food like?
Kind of bad...
The beans were black, and the noodles (mispronounced) sticky...
You didn't like it?
Not much.
Why?
No, because... because... It was good food...
Ok
But the taste... was very bad
It was like without taste, they didn't put too much salt in it.
It was for...
Sure
It was for... what?
For... for learning more, and having a better memory
This was the classroom of...
This was the classroom of...
the third and fourth years' classroom.
There it was. It's all broken... The roof destroyed...
And... did you like any of the girls?
No
Why not?
We're still too young...
But I guess there was a pretty one...
Kind of... but long ago... She's gone.
Really?
What was her name?
Her name was Susana.
What did you like about her?
Her face, and her 'speakment'...
Did she speak nice?
Yes
How did she speak?
I just don't have that voice...
Víctor, would you like your school to be taken away from Iloca?
That it's going to be set somewhere else? Or do you want it here?
Really, I don't care.
...because there are many schools that are fine...
Ok
and...
that's it.
You'd like to start school, right?
Yes...
And although I'm bad as I told you...
...I'm not very good at reading and stuff like that...
...but one doesn't have to miss classes for something like this...
And you had your uniform already?
No, it's good we hadn't found it yet.
I'll show you the offices
The office....
the teachers' office... that's the one...
There's where they had their things. They also gave us pencils, things we didn't have...
And... there's where you were sent when you got detention?
No, there's no detention here. When you do wrong, you have to miss the break, that's all.
Hey, you'll be famous!
Why?
You'll be everywhere!
But on Internet? Who's checking on the Internet?
Ok, here's where...
Why do you think nobody goes on the Internet?
But... many people go into it, but some don't have it.
It's better to be on TV
...the best friend I had, his name was 'Benja'
And what happened to him?
We fought, punched each other, but we always made up. He was the best friend in the world.
I'd never had a friend.
And what happened to your friend?
He left, he went far away.
Ok
His house had a store in it. He used to give me things...
And do you miss him?
A lot, he was the only friend I had...
... now I'll have no friend nearby...
...besides, his store was destroyed, and that's the saddest of all...
is that the tsunami... aunt Doris was pregnant, and she climbed up the hill with the baby...
That's what makes me the saddest...
These are the toilets!
Right
Here are the boys' toilets, and there are the girls' ones.
Here are the toilets...
Here's where the faucets were, and here's were we took showers
and there... here there were toilets
and here they had a thing, that wasn't a toilet, it was just like that, for you to *** on it.
...and there's the girls' one, that's more destroyed.
it was getting real nice, wasn't it? did you notice?
Was your school being repaired?
yes, the toilets, because they were broken...
... they were broken, and they were very much like this...
And the last thing I'll say...
... is that...
he... what's that gentleman's name? that was...?
Farkas?
No,
That was what? elected president?
yes,
Sebastián Piñera?
...to Sebastián Piñera, that he may come here
...so he can help us and bring some food and stuff like that, and tents and mats...
... and bike pumps, for (¿...?)
That's what we're asking for.