Part 2: Welcome to BONANZA

The children  felt the force of air hitting their faces. There were shouts from inside the small room where they were sitting nervously.   The floor moved and shook from time to time and they felt strange vibrations.   They could also hear the wind whistling by outside.   They were there for a few hours before reaching their destination: Bonanza City. The small craft had taken off from the rest of the school and flown there. Finally the airship stopped and floated about four meters in the air.  Everyone stared at the ground that seemed so far away from them. No one dared to jump out until a boy named Nacho with brown hair made his way to the door and jumped down without any problems. Seeing that he had jumped down so easily  more people started jumping out until there were none left.

Everyone was excited and running around  the deserted  town that looked just like the ones in the old cowboy movies  until one of the girls saw a stone with an inscription on it. The girl´s name was Mireia and she was the smartest student in the class. As she inspected the stone more people joined her to look at what it said until a fairly large group had formed. Seeing so many children were grouped in the same place Augustine came and looked at the inscription.  The students then looked at him and asked what it meant. He inspected it a few more minutes and realized  that it was a mathematical language and it was written upside down.   Augustin began to look at the inscription with a very strange face until he said, "It means that this city was once inhabited but because of some bad decisions the town failed.  The Bonanzonians attempted to found a new civilization but since they weren´t successful they left a small diary in the house there about ten meters away.   In the diary there is a record of all the things they did wrong so that if someone else ever came to try again they could avoid making the same mistakes."

 

Augustine looked at the house and started walking towards it as a  cloud of dust blew past and covered him  with a thin layer of the powdery, orangish-brown soil.  He climbed the stairs and opened the wooden front door which made an unpleasant creaking noise as it opened. Inside was a small room with a table and four chairs. On the old table was a book that looked like it would fall apart if it were touched. Augustine blew a thick layer of dust from the cover and its color changed from gray to bright red. It  had a yellow ribbon marking a page. The children´s  teacher opened the book to where the ribbon was and began to read.

Monday 26 February 1816 

The first thing that we did wrong was give all the power to a single member. 

You may have noticed that there are four chairs.  You must choose four young people

 to lead this new civilization.   This is a very important decision so I wish you luck.  

 John Roxan Weingburg

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Augustine began thinking about who could be selected for the board of Bonanza. 

Soon he had made a decision.  He called everyone into a meeting in what would soon be

 their dining hall.    All the kids were talking loudly and moving about 

until Augustin yelled, "Your attention please.  Everyone quiet!" When everyone had 

quieted down he said, "I read the Book of the Bonanzonians and 

it said that we should make a town council for Bonanza.  I have chosen four of 

you to be our leaders.  Again all the children started talking at once and again Augustin

had to shout to get the kids to quiet down.   Finally he said, "The four people 

I have chosen to be our leaders are..."

Part 1: The trip to BONANZA

It was like any other morning and only a few students in the school Ave Maria of the Red Penya had arrived. It was 7:53 and there were only seven minutes to get to school. 

The reason for the delay was a horrible wind that made the trees tremble, like they were possessed. There hadn´t been a wind like that for 300 years.  

Or so they say, because there is no trace of what happened that day. The only reminder that remains is the stories of some elders whose relatives lived in that day and remember it coldly. 

The minutes passed and there were only three students in the courtyard waiting for the bell that students both hated but now saved them from the terrible storm. 

Then it happened, the bell rang and all the students ran to the classroom. Only Irene and Sandra made it to class because they lived nearby. Earlier they had had math. 

Their teacher, Augustine, was tall and nervous.  He walked in the door very concerned about the other students who had not yet arrived. 

Instead of going on to explain the activities for the day, as he always did, he told the two students to follow him.
They went downstairs to where the old music room was. Augustine then opened a small trapdoor in the floor and went down. 

The two students were perplexed at first but soon followed. Underneath was a classroom with many computers with buttons of all colors and all shapes you could imagine. 

Augustine looked at the computers and then turned and looked at the students
“I'll wait in class to see if someone else comes stay calm and if something happens push the purple button,” Augustine said and left quickly. 

Soon students began arriving until the entire class arrived which Augustin led to the same place where he had brought Sandra and Irene.
Students were still very surprised that they had known nothing about such a complex room in their very own school. 

Augustine cleared his throat and started to speak.

“First I must explain that each teacher could choose or take a class or our family as part of the planet that will not be affected by the end of the world. 

And I chose you, my students, to survive. Now I will open a small room with chairs and hidromodernatonic belts. 

Be careful, if you put the belt on incorrectly you will die in seconds.” Augustine opened a small door that no one had noticed  until that moment and everyone 

rushed to sit down on the rusted metal chairs and put their belts on. 

Augustine then closed the door with a thick copper-colored key and sat on the chair in front of the purple button. 

Then he pressed the button.