QUeStIoNs & AnSwErEs

Hi! April, from Mr.Fisher's class had asked us "How is our community like?"

Our community is really very small. But I love our community specially because is small almost all the people know in here. We have many friends from other schools and almost all of this people on the weekends we go to the same places and we have fun. Here in Cartagena we have like 6 towns, but really the most visited like on Fridays or Saturday people mostly goes to Castillo Grande or Bocandrande because in both of this towns are some restaurants and some cool places that people like to visit and have fun. For example, some of this places are like “el campito” which is a place were people goes to play football or baseball, people can also have pizza, or brownies. There also other restaurants that people visit often like Club Cartagena, in there they can go to the pool, or go and eat there and play football. There also other restaurants that people like to visit too like Mc Donalds, El corral, El Otoyal, etc. like I already told you, here in Cartagena almost all the people knows all the people so it is very cool and we have a lot of fun.

Do you think that global warming will harm your environment?

Actually I think that global warming has affected very much to us here in Cartagena. Global warming has affect us because in Cartagena sea level is actually getting higher and higher and later when years had passed Cartagena is going to flood in a period because of global warming each time ice is melting each time more so I think that it is affecting us in some way. Global warming has also made us have here in Cartagena lots of floods in some places where people suffer a lot and they pass a very difficult time with this strong floods so I thing global warming is affecting in some way all the world so something has to be done to help stop this because years later we are going to have a lot of problems.

What are the temperatures like where you live: high, low, or in between?

Well, here in Cartagena actually most of the time, or we can say all the time is really really hot! Specially there a some days that I don’t now what to do! I really get stressed because of the hot temperatures here in Cartagena. But they are some days in which is still hot but you can resist it and is a good climate, for my opinion. This days in which you could say that is not too hot is specially in the month of December. I think that in December we have a good climate and not like other days that I really don’t know what to do and I stress myself. But on this days that is very hot and it makes a lot of sun, I look for the positive things, for example, on this days I go with my friends to the pool or to the beach and we have a lot of fun getting tan, and this opportunity many people that live in other places do not have it. So I look for the good things when there are too hot temperatures, but sometimes it is still terrible!

-*-About Me-*-

Hey! My name is Victoria, most people call me Vito. I am 12 years old and in February I turn into 13. I am in 7 grade and my school is called "Colegio Jorge Washington". I am from Cartagena, Colombia. I have a teacher called Mr. Hide, he is a great teacher. Mr. Hide has assigned us a project witch I think is very interesting project especially because we can talk about what everything we want too and express ourselves saying what we think. I really think this is an interesting project. In this project we have to talk about some issues that we are interested and worried about, I have three themes that really worried me and concerned me which are alcohol and drugs, parents education, and second hand smoking.

Well, I think that one of the most important issue that I first think about was of the people that are consuming alcohol and drugs very much. And what more worries me about this is that children like of only 13, 14, 15, and so on are drinking too much alcohol. And if this people at this age are starting drinking, how is going to be on the future? What more concerns me about this is that this is affecting also other people. for example, many accidents had occur because of drunk people driving, and the rest of the people in the car is also affected by this accident and many people had died by this, and we really don’t want this. I think that in some of this cases the problem is because the education of parents. I think that what parents plant in their children in some way it would affect them by the time they grow up. For example, if a child has parents who get out all night and get drunk and all of this things maybe the child would learn this and do the same by the time they grow up. Or also they could plant good thing and maybe the child would learn about that and do the same.

Other problem that is affecting people is the second hand smoking which affects people very much because for example, if I am beside a person witch is smoking I consume all the smoke of that person so that affects me almost like if I were smoking and this has happen to me occasionally. Many times I have be on restaurants were people beside me starts to smoke and all the smoke gets to me. I really think that this is very rood and a very bad example. I think that people should go to other place to smoke because I think that is very disrespectful with the people who don’t likes that.

Well, I really wish that this changes because this concerns me very much and I am really worried about, I also think about other problems that I think that should change but these are the most that worries me.

Now you know what most concerns me and you also know a little about me. I really hope this changes! Bye