diumenge, 13 de març del 2016

"A castle for my princess"

Like almost every girl in the world, Emily Heaton wanted to be a princess. This don't have anyhing of strange or excepcional and neither her model: it wasn't the Spain queen otherwise a Dinsey princess.
Jeremiah Heaton, the father, is the owner of a security company in the coal mines in the region of Abingdon, at the south of the Virginia State. Two years ago, he was asked by his daughter if some day she would be a real princess. He thought that she was acting like every girl in her age (she was 6 years old) and he answered of course she WOULD. The problem was that Emily was talking seriously and she said thait "it was soemthing importnat for she". So that, Heaton STARTED to search around the world a place without owner where his doughter could be the princess, and the last month he finally has found it: he planted a flag (made by the three soon of Jeremiah) in Bir Tawil, a piece of te Sahara desert of 2.060 square kilometers and between Egypt and Sudan and until now, unclaimed by any of the neighboring countries. So since the last 16th of April, Emily is a princess, but this is not all: recently, Disney had announced that after almost a year of talks with the Heatons family, they have decided to make a film with this story: the adventure of the father for try to give to his doughter a place where she could be the princess. Emily can't ask for more!
But, like in every Disney movie, there is always the bad character althought in this case, here are two bad characters: the reality and politics. It's true that Bir Tawil is a "empty place" I mean, anybody has claimed it untill now, but you need the approval of the International Comunity (starting with Sudan and Egypt) for impose a sovereignty. Further, you need to pas by Sudan or Egypt for arrive to this area and in one side, Sudan appears in the list of "The states sponsors of terrorism" and the United States don't allow you to travel to this country. In the other side, the departament of Egypt took motnhs fo give a permission to Jeremiah for travel to this area and besides, it tooks three days to him to arrive to Bir Tawil so it's a little inaccessible place.
Heaton has explain thta it will took a lot of paperwork achieve the recognition of the International Comunity and the governements but he also say that it will not stop him and even less since Emily explained what she wants to do in her kingdom: she wants "a garden" in for give food to everybody. So as a result of this wish, the intention of Jeremiah is try to create the infraestructures to convert this "kingdom" at the headquarters of a reserach center for the fight against hunger. 
In the other hand we have the second "Dinsey witch": the political. What for someone is a fairy tale, for others is the same colonialism did in the last century: a white man planting his band in an african country for make happy to his doughter. 

I don't know what to think about this NEW, it seems a little stupid, you know? In fact, at first, I didn't believe that it was a real notice, I mean, is nice that a father do wathever for make sure his soons are happy, but there are limits, aren't it? Besides, this is what the girl wants now when she is 8 years old (I don't know how to descrive this girl: ambitious for aspire to have a kingdom with her age or maybe capricious and spoilt because we don't have to forget that the father is doing what he can and more for make sure his daugther is a real princess), but what would she want when she grow up? Althought, it has to be said that the girl have good intentions: fight agains the hunger... Anyway, I would like to know what it's going to be her next birthay present, this is insuperable!! Well, maybe no, you never know with Jeremiah Heaton. 

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