Monday, January 29, 2007

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!



Monday, January 15, 2007

:.: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.