.::.My C°mmun¡ty.::.

HI, I was reading some questions on the wiki and I really want to answer these one specially. For April in Mr. Fisher’s class and for everybody who is reading this my community is wonderful I just don’t now from where to start, I guess from the beginning. Cartagena is a very beautiful city. You must be thinking that Colombia is very poor and the cities are horrible and that every thing is bad. But no are country has many poor people yes, but we are just like any other city in the world, plus we are very good persons and not every body here in Colombia Is a drogdealer or stuff like that. My city, Cartagena is a very touristic city. It’s Colombia’s most touristy city because we are by the sea and because we have our down town were houses are beautiful and very old. They where built a long time ago when Spanish people came to conquer.

I live in Boca Grande this is the most popular neighborhood in Cartagena and for us (my friends and I) Boca Grande is Cartagena I mean for us Cartagena is just that part of the city because we don’t go out of bocagrande, well just to Castillo grande and the laguito. So here in Boca Grande we can walk everywhere alone with your friends and it is so cool because you go to Mc Donald’s and then you don't have nothing else to do because you are bored there. In other city you would probably would have to stay there but in Cartagena you can walk to The club Cartagena or to The campito where we usually go after being in Mc Donald’s. Boca Grande has everything it has the only McDonalds in The city it has all the mini malls and those things. Well Castillo Grande and the laguito too but not so much as Boca Grande. We have so much fun here in Cartagena. What we usually do a Saturday is to go to the pool or the beach on till around 6 and then we go to our hoses and we get ready to go out at night with some friends until 11:00 PM that we go back to our houses and sometimes we do pajama parties and if not we just go to our houses. Here in Cartagena we just have one mall and it is not in Bocagrande nor laguito and Castillo grande. This mall is ubicated very far a way from were we live so we can’t go much there. If you want to go you would probably go a Sunday with your parents. In Boca Grande there is not a big mall we have mini malls But we just go there to buy things not as a plan to go at night. I love were I live because Boca grande has many buildings and almost every building has a pool or its in front of the beach like my building. Well I hope that now you have an idea of how is my community and I hope you like it.

.·::·.The World, Teens, and are Future.·::·.

Hi, for all of you that don't now me my name is Catalina and I like my friends to call me cata. I live in Cartagena, Colombia and I am 13 years old. I studie in colegio jorge washington (cojowa) it is one of the best schools in Cartagena. I love my school the only thing wrong about it is that it is too small but we had decided to move to the "zona norte" and have a buetiful and huge school. My schdule strarts at 6:00AM when I have to wakeup to go to school and be on time there at 7:00AM. Iam in the soccer team so every monday, wensday, and frieday I have to stay after chool to practice. after my soccer practice are over I go to my basketball practice. I always and up really tired and sometimes I finish my homework very late at night. I am also at STUCO (student concil) and we have metings every wensday after school.

If you ask me about my city I would tell you that it is wonderful, Cartagena is like a living hood it is so small that you can go everywhere walking and meet with people, that is what we usually do here on weekends. We also have the opportunity to go to the beach because Cartagena is by the sea. Also we can go downtown or as we call it here “El Centro” and you can watch all the old style houses that were built along time ago when Spanish people came to conquer the city. But Cartagena has bad things as well.

Yesterday my English teacher assigned us to write an introduction about what concerns us. What concerns me? Many things such as my country. I love Colombia but I have to accept that we are in a kind of civil war. This concerns me because they (“guerrilleros”) are destroying everything including families. The guerrilleros take children that have no education and they offer them money, education and many things that they don’t have in their lives so they join the guerrilla. This people think that they are right and that they are heroes. So they kidnap people such as corrupts and they have them kidnap for a lot of years. But they kidnap innocent people as well and then they ask their families for money to return them.

This takes me to another concern such as orphans in the world this kids are children who don’t have parents so they don’t receive education nor a living and this children are the future. Because the ones who are living in the future are children and if this children don’t receive education and nothing similar to it when they grow they won’t be good persons.

Another thing that concerns me is global warming. Earth has a great atmosphere and it is such a shame that we are damaging it. Right now we are not having to much effects but if people keep damaging the atmosphere on the future people like us (kids) will suffer many changes and have a lot more effects.

And finally something that really is concerning me right now is addictions. Drugs, alcohol, and smoking are the most common addictions. This really concerns me because these things are really bad and know kids my age are doing it. I just can’t believe that people so young are already being addicts to these things and people now that it is bad! And the worst thing is that some people get into it by group pressure!

Well this are the things that most concern me about the world, teens and are future I hope you had like it.