Spanish–English parallel text
La luz en el lago
The Light in the Lake
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En octubre fui a visitar a mi abuela. Ella vive en un pequeño pueblo en los Alpes, justo al lado de un lago. El pueblo se llama Seewil. En invierno, solo viven allí doscientas personas.
In October I went to see my grandmother. She lives in a small village in the Alps, right by a lake. The village is called Seewil. In winter only two hundred people live there.
Mi abuela se llama Vreni. Tiene setenta años y fue profesora de física durante cuarenta años. Es inteligente y solo cree en lo que puede ver.
My grandmother’s name is Vreni. She is seventy years old and was a physics teacher for forty years. She is clever, and she only believes what she can see.
Por teléfono me dijo: «Jonas, por favor, ven. Necesito tu ayuda. Y trae tu cámara». No quiso explicar nada más.
On the phone she told me, “Jonas, please come. I need your help. And bring your camera.” She didn’t want to explain more.
Llegué por la tarde. Ella cocinó sopa y comimos en la cocina. Luego miró el reloj. «Son casi las once», dijo. «Ven conmigo a la ventana».
I arrived in the evening. She had cooked soup, and we ate in the kitchen. Then she looked at the clock. “It’s almost eleven,” she said. “Come with me to the window.”
Fuera todo estaba oscuro. El lago estaba negro y tranquilo. Entonces lo vi. Muy profundo bajo el agua, en el centro del lago, había una luz. Era azul y parpadeaba lentamente.
Outside everything was dark. The lake was black and calm. Then I saw it. Deep under the water, in the middle of the lake, there was a light. It was blue, and it blinked slowly.
«Desde hace tres semanas», dijo mi abuela. «Cada noche a las once. Y a las cuatro de la mañana desaparece de nuevo».
“For three weeks,” my grandmother said. “Every night at eleven. And at four in the morning it’s gone again.”
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