Monday, January 29, 2007

I read Dereks blog and...

Today, January, Monday 29 of 2007, I read Derek´s blog, he is from Canada and studies in the school of Excellence and Imagination. In this Teen life project, some schools like Kuala Lumpur in (Malaysia), Cartagena in (Colombia), and Broadway in (Virginia) interact from different parts of the world talking about some issues that we, the TEENAGERS, can have a real bad issue in our lives in the future.

Derek wrote one same thing that I also wrote about ,for example, I wrote about Pollution (Also Derek), can be one of those issues that can interact in our lives, dangering it, and making it shorter to live, by making thinner the ozone layer, contaminating the air around us, and also the biggest source of water, the sea. Derek the guy from Canada also wrote about pollution, I agree when he said that Pollution affects every body not just a certain place in the world, pollution is every where we can go. We, normal people, can help stop pollution, like starting to not to throw trash on rivers, oceans, streets, but puting trash in a trash can. Also what we can do is to help recycle, so factories dont have to do new materials and throwing harmful gases into our atmosphere, or making oxigen very bad to breathe, making diseases, and making more deaths.

There is also one more thing that I wrote about that I think most people should agreed with, is something called Technology . Maybe when you hear that word you may think of an Ipod, TV, xbox, Playstation, Computers, Cell phones ,etc. Or when you hear this word you would think this as something good, but moste of the time it is not good. Time passes , and so machines that do better job than humans comes around. When this "machines'' arrive to factories humans are being replaced, because machines do a better, and more efficient job. How can this be related to the teen life project? Well, what if a person that is replaced with a machine have kids, and that person does not get a job, those kids will grow poor and provably die , because of hunger thirstinnes, etc.

There is one more thing I agreed with Derek that he wrote in his blog that was the issue of smoking. I agreed that not only the people that smoke is affected, is also the people around the people that actually smoke. I read some where that nearly three thosand peolpe dies every year in the United states, because of only smelling ciggar smoke, just imagine the people that actually smoke... As always there is a question in my mind. This one is bout smoking. Why do people smoke, when they know that smoking is killing you slowly? (If please some one can answer this question just comment me back).

Hey! Derek you've got a nice blog there, you have really nice issues for the teen life proyect that is coming around.
If any one wishes to go by and take a visit to dereks blog click here...
->http://dereksblog.learnerblogs.org/

Mr. Hide here is my 500 blog post.

Monday, January 15, 2007

°|Augusto In Cartagena|°

Hi, my name is Augusto V, I’m 12 years old, I have a sister called Natalia, and she is older than me, she is 15. My Dad is in the military, I hope he retires in any moment, because he is risking his life; my mom is the house keeper and she is very useful for my family. I was born here and I have to move to the capital city of Bogotá for 5 or 6 years because of my father's work, then I move to Cartagena for some years I live in Cartagena, Colombia, and I study in a great school called ¨Colegio Jorge Washington¨ this is a bilingual school and I have many friends here.

In my school teachers are very friendly and funny, but when it gets down to study things go serious. I am in 7*B, with Mr. Hide, he teaches us English, and Social studies, we have other teachers like Miss. Hall, that teaches us math, and Miss. Alba, that teaches us science. This are very interesting subjects and, I like some of them. To get to school I have to wake up at 6:00 A.M, to get to school at 6:30 A.M, school finishes at 2:30 P.M

My life here at Cartagena is very cool, I get to hang out with my friends to places like Mc Donald’s, El campito 2010 that is an artificial soccer field that is very cool, also I like to go is to the cinema in which the people show very good movies. Sometimes when I have anything to do I have my XBOX 360, which is very useful for me, because I play it when I’m bored. In the teen life projects I might use some of the subjects like, Global warming, and technology, because these are very important subjects that can rely us in the future, like in a way that is daggering our life and shortening our life expectancy.

Pollution,
Some thing that is affecting our world right now is something called Global warming. This is that many affects are happening because the green house effect. More cars are been bought, and being used, throwing harmful gases into our atmosphere, shortening everybody’s life period and making us suffer from damages. This is not one's persons fault is everybody's fault, because many people are not doing the right thing to do, which is to buy cars or use a type of transportation that throws harmful gases.

Technology,
Technology like we know it, can be good but also bad, a great example (for good) is that there are better machines are being used to save peoples life...but most do not. Machines also make jobs better than humans, so the cause is that humans are being replaced, making humans lose their jobs and to reach an economic dead line or problem. I think that humans can do, is to make machines that do something good, and that they don’t replace humans...

These are things that I would want to involucrate in my Teen Life Project.