Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Teen Life Wiki Response

In this post I wanted to answer some of the questins on the teen lif wiki.

First I’m going to answer the ones about the school encironment. The answer to the one about uniforms is obviously yes, and our uniforms are a sort of dark blue and white, the shirts are all the same but the girls wear skirts and the boys were something else, I don’t know exactly what to call it, long shorts, or short pants, anyway, you can also wear a school jacket with that because it gets kind of cold in the classes because of the ac. We have to wear a different uniform for P.E. , and if you don’t wear the PE uniform to PE, then you get in trouble. And I’ll also answer another question by saying, no, we don’t get a good education here, just kidding Mr. Hide, anyway the teachers are really good and I feel that I learn a lot here.

Now I’m going to answer a question about class saying, that yes, poverty is a big issue here and it can be found too easily, just go to the centro, and you’ll find it everywhere. Which really gets me sad every time I go there ,but also makes me feel thankful to God for giving me and my family what we have. In our school we help those people by collecting money to buy presents for homeless children in December, and also by collecting food to give to them, and it would be very nice if other people in Cartagena payed more attention and tried to help those people that need their help, because sadly most people just ignore them. But still, sometimes it is their fault that they don’t have any money because they don’t want to work and make their children wash car windows with dirty water one the streets.

That’s it for this post, and remember, help poor people

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Racism

When I was looking at Farhad’s blogger, I realized there was one subject I hadn’t talked about in my post that is extremely important to me, and that is racism.

There are many types of racism, the one that is mostly talked about racism from white people who discriminate other people because they are black. I personally experienced some of this when I was in kindergarden at another school I sat with three girls who weren’t very nice to me because I was dark, so I didn’t have any friends. That was one year of my life that I didn’t enjoy at all, I felt lonely and sad because I didn’t have any friends, just because I was born two shades darker than everyone else. Now that I look back at that time I don’t feel angry with those girls, I feel angry with myself because I never told anybody about what was happening at that time. That’s why I think that any time someone is discriminating you because of your color, then you should do something to stop that because the less racist people there are in the world, the better.

One other thing I want to say about racism is that it isn’t only from whites to blacks, it is also from anybody, to anybody who is of a different race, Asian, Indian, Chinese, European, etc. And everybody should try to stop this.When I was looking at Farhad's blog I realized that there was one very important topic that I hadn´t covered on my post, and that was racism, which is extremely important to me.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

alexa´s intro

Hello peeps! My name is Alex C. and I live in Cartagena, Colombia. In Cartagena we get many tourists since we have many historical things like the murallas and nice islands and beaches. I go to Colegio Jorge Washington which is very nice and has many sports. Here, the most popular sport is soccer, but I don't really like it, I play basketball and volleyball, but I like volleyball more. In this school, I think that school starts very early if you compare it to school in the U.S. which start at 9, but here it starts at 7. Which is very hard for me because I’m used to waking up late. But other than that, school is very nice. Except for sometimes, we get so many projects at a time that I get really confused and then procrastinate and have to do everything really fast at the end, so the projects don’t end up really good.

One of the problems many people face in Cartagena is poverty, which is a condition in which a person doesn‘t have important things needed for life. Here, if you walk around the streets you will see many poor people begging for money, I mean, you see that everywhere, but here you see much more than anywhere I’ve ever seen. It is very important for people with more money to help those people, and get them jobs. Since they don’t have any money, the children don’t get to go to school and instead they work on the streets washing car windows, the worst thing is that while everybody sees that these people need help, some people are too careless to do anything about it.


One of the important issues in the world is global warming. Which means that the Polar ice caps will start to melt because of rising temperatures and cause many problems like floods, droughts, tornadoes, extinction and even more. Most national governments have signed the Kyoto Protocol, which is aimed at fighting global warming. Global warming is a very serious issue and I think that everybody that can help fight it should do it.



Another important issue is drugs , they affect many people and make them do many bad things like crash cars, and if they stop taking it they get very mad at everybody. Mostly people take them because of peer pressure, they meet somebody who tells them that if they smoke it they would feel very good. People start doing drugs and then they can’t stop taking them because they are addicted. Drugs are bad for you.

Yet another important problem in the world is wars, which are violent fights between two groups. I think that wars are bad because many people end up dying unnecessarily. Wars aren’t always the best ways to solve conflicts either.

Bye. And remember, don’t do drugs!