Sexual Abuse

For my teen life project, I’ll be doing sexual abuse. For this post I found my information in wikipedia.
What I learned was that sexual abuse, is that it is when a person forces another to perform sexual acts. Physical forced sexual acts are called rape. While psychological forms of abuse can be called stalking. There is sexual abuse from teachers, which is when a teacher gives unwanted sexual attention to students. Also, there is sexual abuse from members of the same family which is called incest .
I tried to make little, but detailed information so some people can understand better and I’ll have more to write about later on, sexual abuse is a very serious and very important topic. I think that what I read was very informative because there are some things I didn’t know about sexual abuse that I learned here, like that sexual abuse from members of the same family is called incest. That is one the part of sexual abuse that interests me the most, incest, it is a very serious problem. Like if you feel that you are in danger of getting raped when you are walking on the streets and then you get home where you are supposed to feel safe and protected because the only people in your house are family. WRONG! You aren’t safe anywhere, it is a cruel world where you have to be careful that you don’t let any member of you family, especially of the opposite sex, into your room and close the door with a lock, like maybe with your mother it is okay, but with more distant family like an uncle, aunt, or cousin, you should definitely be careful. If any family member starts acting you in an inappropriate way, then you shouldn’t stay quiet, you should tell another
adult, so that he or she can do something about that, like tell the police.
I have heard stories in the news about sexual harrasment from teachers like a teacher that started sending porn to students by email, and teachers that force students into performing sexual acts by threatening them with school-related things. No matter what a teacher threatens you with, you should never give in to that kind of sexual harrasment because that is never right.
Also, never think that just because you are male you are safe from sexual abuse because that is completely wrong, ther is sexual harrasment from male to male, or homosexual abuse. There is sexual abuse from women to men also.
For my next post I’m still going to do sexual abuse, but I’m going to focus on sexual abuse of minors since at it is more important to us since we are minors too. There are very auful stories about how minors get raped by I the streets or that crazy people sneek into their houses when their parents are away and rape them. Like I heard this story on the radio where a man found this girl walking on the streets and hit her head with a piece of wood so she went unconscious, then he raped her, and after that he ate her, so he was a canibal as well as a sexual abuser.

School Environment

There are some questions about school environment posted in the teen life wiki that I thought would be fun to answer.

My favorite thing about my school is thatyou are almost never bored, at recess thereare many things to do like, eat, play soccer or basketball, go to the library, or just talk to your friends. Teachers are cool, and once in a while we get fun projects that we do in class. And on holidays, stuco plans fun things.

I feel good about school I love being with my friends, and learning new things. The only times I get kind of nervous about school is when I get so much homework that my brain hurts, or when report cards are coming.

If my school were “ under construction” I don’t exactly know what I would do because it depends on wether the school is open or closed. If it is open, then I would just go and try not to distract myself too much watching the construction. But if the school were closed, then I would have to find a way to study at home or go to another school in the meantime. What would be really bad would be if my school caught fire or something very serious like that, that would be very bad because then everybody would have tolave the school for a year or two before it opened again.

When I was reading Ana Caro´s blog post on sexual abuse, I thought that I´d like to write a little about that because it is also important.

Sexual abuse is a very serious subject because there are many people who sexually abuse children, that´s why I think it is bad for children to wander the streets alone at night because they aren´t always very safe, anyone might find them on the streets and rape them, that´s why I think that children should always be accompanied by somebody at night, it is better if a group of kids walk together than if one child walks alone.

Okay, so I think that some of the questions about health and technology on the teen life wiki, made it seem like they thought we were kind of behind on technology and health, which we are, but not that much.

They asked if we had doctors here, and I say that we do, and that people who can afford to go to the doctor here are mostly very healthy, but if they find a major problem, they go to the U.S. People who can´t afford to go to the doctor, go to one of the hospitals where they can be checked for free, but the service isn´t very good in those, so they may end up with health issues without money to go to a good doctor.

And about the technology, no, we normally don´t have problems communicating through technology, we use phones, and computers to communicate just like you do. But if you wan´t to buy some things like a PS3 or other things like that, you can´t get them in Cartagena, you have to go to Bogota or the U.S.