El Rescate de los 33

So world media has taken an interest in this human interest story and it just so happens I’m here smack dab in the middle. I thought people might be interested in reading about my thoughts as I witnessed this story from the begining. Well, I must admit I have mixed feelings about how this story has blown up. While it’s super exciting to be in the middle of it all (and I’m desperately trying to get on as many newscasts as possible) I kinda think the media has blown it up way huge, doing what journalists do to get that story. And you know that’s fine, that’s how the media works, but I think what doesn’t sit well with me is the fact that it took 17 days and contact with the miners before any world media took interest. I remember before contact trying to find article in English and usually all I could find were from small newspapers whose facts I wasn't sure I trusted because they seemed to contradict the Spanish news. But now there is a pleathera of articles to choose from such as "how the wives/girlfriends are preparing for romantic reunions with trapped miners."

And Copiapo, a small mining town who never gets any attention is eating it all up. Ok, I’m generalizing, sorry. Really, I feel like it’s the families eating it all up. The’ve been camping out at esperanza for the last two months doing who knows what? Waiting. But why? You’re men are alive and well, what is your waiting around outside in the bitter cold nights/hot days doing? I kinda just think they use this “suffering“ as an excuse not to go to work. Plus, they’re taking the kids out of school which is just kinda silly don’t you think? Marc’s got kids who haven’t been to school for 3 months now, so what are they supposed to do when they go back? No doubt they will just pass them along to the next grade. School ends in December so they probably won’t go back this year. Am I sounding a bit negative? I don’t mean to be. I just feel like there’s a different story here that will never be told.

But hell! It’s still pretty frickin cool to be in the middle of this event. History in the making baby! A bunch of my friends are getting job offers to translate or give quotes. BBC, some Canadian news company, and even a German broadcast contacted one of my friends here. I just wanna get on CNN. Heading to the plaza now, we’ll see what we can do.