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This is a story of love, healthy and hope, full of good feelings, and charged with positive

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thoughts for Japan.

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After the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, we all went to school really sad, thinking

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about what we could do to help Japan and the Japanese people in these difficult moments.

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Our head teacher told us a story about that, Sarako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the

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time of the atomic bombing by the United States.

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She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent all her time in a nursery school

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creating origami folded paper cranes in the hope of making a thousand of them.

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She was inspired to do so by her best friend, Peggy Tatouine, who created a thousand origami

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cranes with them be granted a wish.

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Her wish was simply to live.

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However, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more,

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and she died shortly after.

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Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of cranes, which were

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buried to Sarako.

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They also built the statue of Sarako holding a giant golden origami crane in Hiroshima

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Peace Park.

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We should have thought about folding ones outside origami cranes to be able to wish

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for hope, healing, and reconstruction for Japan.

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So we started to fold cranes, helped by our teachers, parents, and friends.

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It wasn't easy at first, but with a little help and some practice, most of us learned

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how to fold paper cranes.

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Our thoughts were with all the Japanese children and their families, especially with the ones

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who are suffering a deadly destruction that the tsunami and the earthquake has left.

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We made four red and black origami cranes.

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After we finished, all the students and teachers met in the playground to make a Japanese flag

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with all our origami cranes.

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We also drew a Japanese and Spanish map on the ground to make our country's flag.

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After we all had made the flag, we circled around it and held our hands for a moment

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of silence.

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All of our thoughts were with Japan then.

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It was a really sunny day.

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We like to think that it was soon.

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That our message of love and hope arrives faster.

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We really hope that our wish will come true real soon.

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In the meantime, we would really like to feel the empty space that sadness and sorrow have

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left in the hearts of those who are suffering.

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We are one hope!