An Overall of the TLP

At first what I thought about the TLP was that it was going to be pretty boring. When we started searching for information and doing all of those posts. I started hating it, and getting bored of doing the same thing over and over. I thought we will never finish, and that it would never get to the day when we had to start filming the documentary.

Another thing I really liked and think was cool and different to do. The phone call with other countries was funny do to some of my friends when they were talking, it sounded really weird. After a while of posting and writing to 500 words, we started knowing people from other parts of the world. Some of the people we met were from Canada, Virginia and others from Malaysia. We got to talk with them and get to know each other.

As soon Mr. hide told us that it was going to be our last post and we could start filming. I got really exited and entuthiasted. While filming the documentary with my partner and friend Isabella. We did have lot’s of fun. First trying not o laugh while filming. Second when we had that interview, we were a little scared. We had never done it before so it was our first time. Our laugh came out once and we felt very pathetic. The women we interviewed was really nice and she understood. Last, trying to see all we had filmed but we did had lot’s of problems with the CD not working and than sending it late do to all that problem.

In overall what I thought at first did value for what we did in the end. You always have to do hard work to get some fun time. I really think that the TLP was something totally different and a great experience.

What I felt...

Hearing the song, I felt in the middle of a forest running like searching for food and hiding from Indians that wanted to eat me. Also I felt mysterious, and sort of scared.
What comes to my mind after hearing a little more into the song is that I'm in a club at the 60’s dancing and the music comes from a man playing the piano.


I'm in a picnic at a farm with all my family having a delicious thanksgiving, eating turkey, and dancing with some friends having a great time. My parents are just there eating and remembering good times talking with my grandparents telling good stories from the past.
I feel very happy hearing that song and I feel like accelerated do to the rhythm of the song.
Also that song remembers me of a movie I saw in film that is called "Sense and Sensibility" in the part that they are at the party dancing and also when they get married.


What first comes to my mind is Lilo and Stitch in Hawaii in a bright night with a big and round moon at a hammock. They are thinking on Lilo’s parents and of what will be their new adventure. How they will rescue the new experiment, and how to get rid of the evil rabbit.
Also, I think of Hawaiians in the beach around a fire singing and eating fish at a party.
Another thing I think on, are Indians sort of praying or doing a ritual to their gods. The cause is that two persons will marry and they are doing a ceremony in which they have to pass through some stages and finally sing or dance that song with your engaged.

Poverty in Developed Countries

These is going to be our last post! It’s great because were going to start filming our documentary. I have some ideas of what my friend Isabella and I want to do and put to our documentary. You can click here to see them.

The normal policies of developed and developing countries is that they differ a lot. In developing countries they do not earn as much as in a developed country. Do to this, developed countries measure the income level of poverty by an average which is that poor people cannot afford the basic needs such as a house. For people with very low status in which they do not earn money, they become homeless because they can’t afford a house. Others that are in very extreme conditions live in substandard and sometimes in very dangerous houses. Many of the poor people in developed countries since they don’t have nothing else to do they start drugging themselves and drug dealing with other and selling them to earn something. Also they abuse of kids and do other crimes.

The United States has the most higher rate of poverty than other developed countries, for reasons only partly understood. A study of 16 nations was defined that poverty is earning below the middle of all. About the 19 percent of the United States lives in a degree of poverty. Rates between 10 to 15 percent were in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom. And the lowest percents were 5 to 8 in the western parts of Europe including France, Belgium, Italy, German, and The Netherlands, Scandinavian countries such as; Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

Poverty rates in some developed countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, they have higher national minorities among each other. In many developed countries they tend to suffer form very high rates of poverty. In the United States many Native Americans live and work on economically reservations and experience high rates of alcoholism and joblessness. And in Australia, many Aboriginal people live in similar conditions.
Well in fact what I think about developed countries and poverty is that I thought that in developing countries was going to be more dangerous to walk at night in the streets but it isn’t. In developed countries there is more people begging for money. Do to wealthy people that have lot’s of money and beautiful houses. The poor ones are going to be jealous and since they can’t do other thing than steal they would rob the houses. Since the government is not helping them finding a job and poor people are not searching for one they country would still keep on being the same.

I have really learned about all types of poverty in developed, developing countries, causes and effects etc…

I’m so happy that finally we are going to film our documentary. I’m really anxious to see how it all ends as I have already told you, you can see our page and see that ideas we have posted and if you have comments please go ahead.

Poverty in Developinng Countries...

One of Colombia’s severe problems is poverty. 65% of the population is below the poverty line. Rural poverty is especially strict.

The poverty rate for rural dwellers in Colombia is estimated at 80%, of which 42% is considered extreme. Also, only 15% of rural dwellers have access to telephone services, 62% to potable water, and 32% to sewage treatment services. These conditions are exacerbated in rural areas by a 15% illiteracy rate. World Bank studies show that Colombia will require sustained economic growth of 4% through 2010 to reduce poverty to the levels recorded in 1995.

Developing countries
Developing nations have experienced severe problems with poverty. They can go to an extreme point in which can cause disease epidemics, starvation, and death. In some countries such as; Bangladesh, Ethiopia, North Korea, Somalia, and Sudan. People have starved and died do to famine. Around 1998 almost no one suffer this economic problem in which people earn than $1 a day!

Poverty affects everyone; children, women, elders, and people with disadvantages. In many nations women have very low privileges to work and they have low status. Women depend on men to support them, but still they don’t get enough.

Asian countries such as China, India, Korea, and Thailand have been widely accused of permitting or encouraging poor families to kill their female babies, a practice known as female infanticide. These countries are overpopulated, and their cultures promote the belief that men contribute more to economies and bring more wealth to their families than do women.

People who do not work such as; children, elders, and people with disadvantages. They all depend on their families or other support network for some necessary basic necessities. Still poor families or the neither the government of developing countries can support the nonworking people. Some poor children suffer those consequences.
Children have very weak systems, they can easily take diseases from extremely bad conditions. As a result the most poorest countries suffer of child disease and mortality. Children have low status and they suffer parental throw out and violence because for their parents they are not considered important.

What I think about poverty in developing countries, since what appears in my research. I totally agree with it. People do not work and they pretend that the government gives them work, but is also their problem because they don’t even try to look for one. That’s totally not responsible for adults, cause children can’t work, it’s a rule. In addition there are also families that depend on just one person to support them. If that one person looses his job the whole family would be poor just by not trying to look for a decent job.
I also think that normal people like me should start helping more with our country. If we see poor people in the streets begging for money we should try to help them. By just giving them a piece of bread and maybe take them to an orphanage their live will totally change.

What I will like to profoundest more my theme is poverty in developed countries and what is the difference between them. Also a topic that is bouncing in my head from one side to the other is how does the changing of president affect poor people and the way of life. And the difference it has on developed countries and developing countries. If I have time I will also would like to research about how does children or adults get to orphanages.

Poverty Causes and Effects

Poverty means: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions


Since in Colombia we have lot’s of poverty I decided to make my post about the effects and causes it has on people. In Cartagena specially is one of Colombia’s most affected city by poverty. People are in the streets begging for money or just a single bread. In “El Pozón” which is the poorest village, there lives all the bad people from Cartagena. Is the most dangerous of all and almost no one goes there.

Some of the types of causes I found on Poverty in Google are:

Individual: Poverty is caused by individual circumstances do to characteristics of poor people.
•amount of education
•skill
•experience
•intelligence
•health
•handicaps
•age
•work orientation
•time horizon
•culture of poverty
•discrimination


Generic: Poverty is also caused by economy problems, such as:
•no jobs opportunities
•inadequate overall demand
•low national income


Effects on Poverty:
Poverty has extremely damaging effects. Many of the effects come from poor nutrition and physical health problems these result from having just a little of few resources. Infant Mortality varies a lot of poor are higher than average and life expectancies are lower than average. Other effects are; disease, metal illness, and drug dependence. Other effects that are very complicated and not really understandable are: studies link to crime, but that doesn’t means that all poor people are criminals or doing vandalism. Crime is not very common in Poverty (except in Cartagena, in here most of the effects are by being poor, they don’t have money so they steal things from other people and also do vandalism) what is most common in poverty in other places are hunger, no job, and that would lead to depression which sometimes can have influence in criminals behavior.


What I really think about poverty is no good for no one. First of all for us, we really don’t care about others people life, we only think of what we have and of who and what we want. If we see a little kid in the street asking for money the first thing that comes to our mind is that he is going to rob your purse or something like that. That may be true. In most of the cases they are just asking for bread and a home to sleep, since their parents have leave him alone given that they couldn’t take care of him do to money problems. What we could do about it? We can give him the piece of bread and also can take him to an orphanage. In fact, Miss Alba, my science teacher, has an orphanage for boys. She goes there like every 2 days in a week and she takes to them cake, coke, candy…etc. She told us one day that if we had some clothe to donate, and most of the boys of my class collaborated. In overall that is the best thing to do an orphanage and to take all the kids and also big people to come to it and can get some help.


I really love children, so what I would like to investigate more about on poverty is the causes children have.

Bulimia Nervosa

What I am concerned about is Bulimia. A perfect definition for it is:

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder where a person has a fear of becoming fat. People with bulimia binge-eat then make themselves sick and/or use laxatives to help themselves maintain their 'normal' weight.

Bulimia affects the most on teenage girls and women, men and boys usually don´t have these problem. The 90% most affected are females. They always want to have a hot body so they can go to the beach and the pool and not feel excluded from the club. That is really sad because no one is happy with what they have. We always want more and more.
While searching on the pages Mr. Hide gave us, I looked in BBC News and I found a very interesting treatment and all the effects bulimia has, and the damage it can cause to your body. Also there is a story about a twenty year old woman that she saw a page in which they were pressing her to be anorexic. She did what she had to do and became anorexic because of that, her name is Isabelle and she didn’t know that bulimia form part of eating disorder. You can also link to Lisette’s blog and see what really happened to the woman.
The symptoms of bulimia are when you see yourself in the mirror and you are steel skinny but you see yourself as a ball. Second, people do lots of exercise, diets, and even no eating!


What happens to your body:
• Dehydration
• Weakness, do to muscle wasting
• Hair growing (very thin) on your arms
• Irregular heart beat that can cause death

Diagnosis and Treatment
Anorexia is difficult to prevent because of developing unclear precisely how the conditions occur. Although there are some ways you can avoid anorexia. They are very risky; they are social press ion to be thin from your friends or club. Also low self-esteem and the most important step is recognizing that you have a problem.

What I think about bulimia is not good. The first thing that comes to my mind is people throwing up because they feel ashamed by their friends calling them fatty girl! I really think that is the worst thing in the world that people do that. If they want to look thin do diet, exercise, run, jump. Do wealthy things but not that stupid anorexia sickness.
What I like to do next with all of these is to try and search for some videos on internet of people that have pass through that. To investigate all the effects bulimia really has on anorexia. To see all the points that causes you to be anorexic or bulimic and some other explanation of how people get in to it and not do exercise or diet food or something like that? Also the main public bulimia has and why? And last but not least why women are more affected than men?

Long Distance Relationship

I met a girl be commenting on her blog and her name is Catrina. She studies in Mala. A very interesting issue I saw on her introduction was Long Distance Relationships with your best friends.

Another I guess you could call “issue” I’m finding interesting is

Long-distance relationships. But it’s a bit different, because it’s not with a boyfriend or girlfriend, it’s with friends who have moved away from you. Well there’s this one really confusing part to me, why is it that after a few months or years without talking to a really close friend, you have nothing to say to them and you can’t really relate to them anymore? People say, “it’s because you grew apart since you have nothing that you really know about them anymore.” Well sure, you don’t know what’s happened recently in your life, but you were best friends! You had to have something in common; something there is to talk about!
Sure, easier said than done, make new friends. But then you have no childhood friends that you still talk to, no friends that you’ve known since you were a child up till now, so you just have really close friends, you move away or they move away, and then you’re done! End ofrelationship. Yes you email, sure you send a few letters here and there, but what about seeing them at school and having a blast with them at the mall? So maybe you have to live in the same place as them so that you don’t grow apart.

Catrina I have passed through that. I have a friend called Mariana and we met

when we were in Pepe Grillo, we were the best friends in the world. All the days
I went to her house to play and have some fun together. We grew up until 4 grade
and she had to leave because her mom had a new job in Medellin. We all cried our
eyes until there was no other tear. I was so sad I didn’t want to go to school.
Some months later I was ok and Mariana was coming for vacations to Cartagena, we
passed all the time together going to parks and eating ice cream. That is our
live right now but we are not best friends anymore. We are just
friends, so when she comes for vacations or an important thing she has to do and we
don’t have anything to talk about; well we do have lot’s of things to share
to each other. If I’m going to tell her who is my crush I have to tell her
the long story of how I like him, that’s the problem, but is the only solution.

Another issue that comes right to my mind and I think is the world’s biggest

problem is poverty. I read on Vale’s blog and I totally agree with her, she
took all I had to write. So take a look to it and leave her comments she
would appreciate you a lot.

Bye! Hope you leave me comments!

:.:Technology, Poverty, & Health:.:

Hi! My name is Isabel and I’m thirteen years old and I´m in 7 grade. I live in Cartagena, Colombia. Jorge Washington or COJOWA is were I study.

My life is all about my friends and basketball, I have lots of them which I go out with. The Campito; a place were everyone goes to play soccer and eat pizza and later drink an Oreo milkshake, is the most popular place to go at Friday night.

Basketball is my favorite sport and I'm in the school team with all of my friends. Also in the afternoon we go and skate on the (Paseo Pea tonal), is a long walking street that is beside the ocean.

Living in Cartagena means that you love to go to the beach, surf , see cute guys, and have some fun dancing. Cartagena is the most beautiful city in Colombia. Has the Centro that it is all colonial of the time when the Spanish came and also the Murallas that are surrounding it.

Mr. Hide, which is my teacher, put us a project about teen life and he told us to pick three or four topics to talk about. My first one is about how all kind of technology is affecting the worlds health and jobs. New inventors are inventing new inventions so they are letting other people without work. When people don´t have a job and haven´t find one they don´t have nothing to eat, they get desesperated and start drugging themselves because they don’t have something else to do. All of these drugs affect them in their lungs and they can get to a point in which they die. This is all causing poverty and is because of our fault just wanting a better cell phone or a
more advance computer.

My second issue are orphans. They have also been a problem for everyone, they are begging in the streets because they don´t have a home nor a family. Their parent´s are also in the same role but by there self. They can´t eat because of no money in their pockets and last but not least some of them drug themselves and do vandalism in the walls.

And last but not least, my last issue is about the Environment. Which is being destroyed because of deforestation, that is causing great death to animals and some plants that live nearby. Also the deserts are increasing because of the cutting down trees to make more paper for schools and the wood is also used to make ships and chairs. The people is not realizing what really matters , if we don´t take care of our few trees many bad things would happen such as; less air to breath, less paper to use, and less chairs and ships to travel.