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Teen Life Project Reflection

2007-04-08T18:00:00.000-07:00

After finishing the teen life project and leaving behing that unit of our english class I have concluye and realize that this was a great oportunity for us to know about other people IN the world, learn their ideals and what they worry for , and along with this also learn searching skills and websites to find about our topics.

During this project I felt very good and interested IN what my topic was, I had the opportunity to express , Search, and tell people about the topic I choose. I was real Into the topic and felt good with all the things i talked about this topic. I thought my opinions where really constructive and that what I said was not the long bored text, but my opinions together with all the información i learned IN an interesting way.

Also, working with a partner IN your same school, and the other schools IN the teen life project who were interested IN your same topic and who you talk with to determine what things cold be good to talk about, was also very exciting and good because everyone helps and the información gathered is very rich IN ideas and good for the people who reads your document.

By the other hand, making all your información go good Into a documentary for your topic and IN which the images where good to match with the información you talked about was difficult but very recomforting for the project. I thought that making the información sound good IN a way that it didnt sounded as a normal text but as a person whas talking about nit IN a documentary was goIng to be too difficult for me and I thought i wasnt gong to be able to make a good documentary. Still when I view all my información and kind of corrected it to go with good IN the documentary with the images, I saw that with efforT and with the help of my partner we would have done by the end a great job IN the project.

Preventing Eating Disorders

2007-03-03T17:38:00.000-08:00

I had said that my next step for my research was to research if illegal drugs influenced on eating disorders. However I realized that knowing what can we do to prevent eating disorders was also a good point for my research, so I went to a google link and research for this topic.

As a society, people can prevent eating disorders by looking always our behaviors and daily attitudes toward things. By this we can understand how to prevent eating disorders in our culture. Teasing and bothering people by weight and body shape leads women to start an eating disorder. Conversations and activities that always include talking and just focusing on thinnes,weight, and dieting may also be harmful and lead to eating disorders.

Movies, magazines and comercial products promote models that are not realistic but jut show and give a message of physical appearance ; beauty and weight. Women are always represented on magazines, movies, and tv by this single women who is unnaturally thin and who’s not like normal women. By seeing this, we have to conclude and realize that we are always going to have different shapes and sizes.

Dieting may also want to push as to change our body to something we are not. Some women have accept that dieting is part of our growth, restricting calories can cause serious psychological consequenses like having inabilities in school, such as tiredness, and depression. In fact girls who constantly diet are most likely to gain weight than those girls who don’t diet.

Accepting this not logical standards to meausure bodies may also create eating disorders behaviors and form low-self esteem. It is always very difficult to fight against this ideas thas form in our heads, but we can always try. People together can defeat this mind-set of ideas that create eating disorders on women if they put effort.

Also, many doctors are working to find out new treatments for eating disorders. The development of promoting awareness of eating disorders in schools as well as having a healthy attitude to our body image and food is one of the things that would help preventing eating disorders. Plus, nacional effort into communities is also helpful because their going to form health centers for those people who have eating disorders and help them by treating them early. By the other hand, health professionals and researchers are always in the constant research of new ways to prevent eating disorders and find new treatments.

I think that preventing eating disorders is something that everyone should do. Though, some people think that they are never getting an eating disorder, is always good that we look at out behaviors and always try fighting against this some mental ideas that form in our minds, that can create us a serious problem; eating disorders. For this, we should always be watching what goes throught our minds.

I also think that it’s very important that people realize and love theirself like they are. You should always feel good and beautiful and can’t be always thinking of how other people are because you want to be that perfect woman with the perfect body and face that it’s not even real. That’s what people want us to think, but in real life their’s always going to be women with defects. This suposely “perfect woman”, who has no defects and its perfect at everything;its unrealistic and we have to understand it, in other to have a happy life.

What Happens to Babies Born From Mothers With Bulimia?

2007-02-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

As I had said, my next step for my research was to find out what happen to children who whad mothers with active bulimia. I find out in a Google link that mothers who decide to have a baby when they still have bulimia have babies with birth defects. Mothers with eating disorders would always have a higher risk of having kids with defects than normal healthy womens. Babies cold be born premature, wich means that you baby is born befote the 9 months, which makes the baby to have low biirth wight that can lead to have other medical problems including dying.

Premature babies can have other problems such as learning disabilities,lungs disease, and psychiatric illnesses like anxiety and hyperactive disorder. This babies also have increased chances of having an infant death , sometimes the baby may seem healthy but still they dont reach the expected adult age, what makes their life’s shorter. In fact, the more premature and low birth weight the baby has, the more chance of disabilities it would have.

The most common illnesses that this babies who survive and are born from mothers with active eating disorders are ushually blindness and mental retardaTion. Health problems in babies of women with eating disorders may not appear before the middle age of the kid because what can happen befote this ages may be a health permanent problem.

Researchers also investigate about the people that were born during the Dutch famine in World War II. Mothers just had little amount of calories a day, which made that most babies died befote birth or shortly after it. Many of the babies who survived seemed to be fine and healthy and even some times had a normal or near a normal birth weight, but when they went through the middle ages get chronic diseases in a more higher risk than born people from mothers who ate.

This made doctors concluye that babies born from mothers who had starved, may be born withought diseases at first until middle ages where they get most of diseases. Diseases that include heart and vascular illnesses and others.

I think that women who have active bulimia shouldnt have babies at that time of their life’s because they are affecting a person and their self’s by having a child who is gong to suffer because fo its defects. Also it is worst for themselves because their child cold also die or have an illness like blindness or mental retardación that can be worst than dying. For my opinion having a baby when you are a bulimic is so meeting very serios because your giving life to someone who may suffer a lot because of its defects and have many difficulties. That baby may not accomplish many of what he wants to do in his future because of its disabilities.

For me women who have babies when they have bulimia , is sort of an act of selfish because they would suffer but also their baby. Having this defects is very dissapointment specially because as I said for many people it can be worst than dying. My advice for the womens who want to have babies is that first they stop this illnes with medical help and then ask your doctor if when you are a normal women then, who just had bulimia before but aren’t anymore can have a baby. That should probably better and give you a better chance of having a normal, healthy kid.

My next step for my research which I have to investigate for my project is do drugs influence on having an eating disorder? Which I think it would help my project to be very complete by answering this question to people who are interested to know.

Family Reaction to Eating Disorders and Celebrities affected

2007-02-18T06:38:00.000-08:00

Family role when eating disorders has made a lott of controversy. Parents, have been historically lamed by people for doping so meeting wrong when they have a child with eating disorder or for not doing enough. Girls who grow up in a family with many problems and abuse have a high probability of having an eating disorder like anorexia and bulimia. This may happen unless they get help to manaage their emocional reactions to their problems by a new study.

Undergratuated students where make part of this study quere asked some questions about their childhood family enviroment and childhood trauma. They took tests to see if they were depressed, had difficulties expressing their emotions and if they also had eating disorders.

By the research they found out that family conflicts and other problems, as well as other phisicallly and emocional abuse during childhood may cause eating disorders. The researchers by this have the right to blame some times familias for causing their daughters to have eating disorders. Family problems lead to phisical and emotional abuse and neglecet. In this kind of family enviroment, girls grew up withought that emocional support from their parents that they need..Also depression in family reaction, may also cause eating disorders. This way should be some help for this girls that have high risk family situations, to help them with their depressions and emotions and by the other hand preventing eating disorders in this girls.

Hollywood has been a great influence in eating disorders, many celebrities have become under this eating disorders lately more and more. An example of a celebrity with eating disorders is Nicole Richie who is anorexic and is extremely thin. A doctor who was interviewed to talk about nicole richie in a televisión show said that is she doesn’t stop dieting, she coUld die becaus eof the dangerous position in which she is now.

Still Nicoles rep dinies that what she has is an eating disorder, and when they asked why nicole was not gaining weight, they said she was workin g with a group of doctors and specialists for her single nutrición, but that this wasnt an eating disorder treatment. What was sad is that many of the anorexics refuse to have help and nicole richie abandoned the treatment 72hrs later, and then for the worst part she was seen Irving against the traffic on a southern california freeway because she was using drugs. So what People don’t know is if she is so skinny because of anorexia, drugs or worstly both.

Other celebrities like Ashley Simpson, Sister of the actress and singer Jessica Simpson admitted that she was affected and valed with an eating disorder in her pre-teen years. She learned from that experience and now loves her body, she says she has good curves. And also hates when women lost their curves because is not sexy and beautiful to be a bone.

For last Victoria Beckham the ex singer of the group Spice Girls for the first time also admitted that she suferred an eating dirsorder. She made her reveletion of this eating disorder in a autobiography that was pubished then, on the newspaper. Still Beckham her husband has denied that she had anorexia in the past and descibes her illnes as a time that she was obsessed with her appearance.

This is how lately models, and celebrities and normal people have had bulimia, anorexia and other many eatig disorders and are always in the risk of the dangerous place that they can die. If they refuse to treatment and denie they have an illnes like this ones, people can’t help them and then it would be too late. For this everyone should be concern and know that to be a bone and extremely thin is not sexy but extremely ugly in this momentos when you see that a person starves herself.

Eating Disorders

2007-02-10T19:30:00.001-08:00

Eating disorders have been very common in the past years. The most common of these eating disorders are Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge-Eating. Anorexia involves not giving your body food, this happens usually to young women. Bulimia is more likely to starve and purge constantly which is more common in adults. Binge-Eating which is similar to bulimia means compulsive eating.

Emphasis in super-thin models has been blamed by people to be one of the causes of the increasing in eating disorders. Still some experts say that though this can affect how they see themselves, the reasons of eating disorders are more complex, and it is usually because of their feelings of self-worth.

Anorexia-Nervosa
People estimate that about 5% of the young girls in England are affected by anorexia. Boys and children are more likely to be affected.
Feminists say that is not the images of super thin models what makes women to be unhappy with their bodies but the still sense that some women’s have of self-worth whether they please men.
Anorexia nervosa is a form of international self-starvation that starts from diet carried to extremes characterized by obsessive behaviors and by denying they have a serious problem.
Lack of food haves the body withought proteins and prevents the normal metabolism of fat. Symptoms of anorexia include extreme loss of weight , hunger, excessively exercise, to choosing low calorie food and hiding food. Another big problem anorexics have is that they can be extremely thin but still they see themselves with over-weight.

Treatment for anorexia may need hospitalization, which involves force-eating as well as giving them advice for healthy eating and counseling. Some doctors say that when a persons bodyweight has become below a certain level of weight, this people are no more capable of making decisions.
This is why before they guide doctors and tell them they could force-feed anorexics over the age of under mental health act. But it had to be shown that the anorexic was not capable of making rational decisions about their condition.

Other treatments for patients of this illness includes group therapy, family counseling , psychotherapy and antidepressants..

Bulimia Nervosa:
Bulimia is more common than anorexia but it is not as physically dangerous. However purging, can cause rupture in the esophagus and cause mineral defiance and dehydration what can cause serious health problems. Bulimia is characterize by binging and starving.

Bulimics can have irregular periods or even stop having periods at all because the excessive use of laxatives and purging., this using of laxatives can cause stomach disorders. Laxatives don’t reduce weight but reduce other things in the body that make it have the appearance of losing weight.

The excessive purging can cause teeth decay and other serious problem in the mouth and throat that can be long term implications. They have been estimates that some anorexics are also affected by bulimia and that some bulimics have had history of having anorexia. People who suffer bulimia tend almost always to be older than anorexics, spend more time to recover and commit more to suicide.
Treatments for bulimics include drugs like antidepressants, behavior modification, and having also education of healthy eating.

My Favorite Things of The Place Where I Live

2007-02-02T05:16:00.000-08:00

Today Im going to talk about the question that Kate in Mr.Fisher's class post. The question was " what was our favorite part about living where we live". Well I would like to live in another place that wasn't Colombia. I have always wanted to live in Spain, because I really like that place. But some of the favorite things why I like to live in Cartagena is because I live really close to my friends and places are so close to my house(well most of them). Cartagena is very little or mostly the place where we live and we could normally go to places walking together(with your friends),but most of the time when you are with your parents you drive to all the places still.

We always have so much fun in the restaurants, parties and places we can go withought the risk of thiefs and those people around. In the night when you'r not alone but with a group of friends is too difficult for someone to make you something. Besides many people hang out at that hours of the night so we are around people we might know. Another thing I love of the place where I live is my school, I dont love homework though but my school is very fun. We always have sports tournaments from stuco, parties,and other events in holidays and spirit days that I love my school organize. I also like that we always have the opportunity to go to other cities and go to the other SACS school in Colombia. We meet new people and also met new places.

Our School Uniforms

2007-02-01T04:23:00.000-08:00

My respond for this week is about the question that Amber from Ms. Baber’s class, post in the Teen life wiki. Her question was if we wear uniforms at our school and if so, what do they look like. Well yes, almost all private schools in Cartagena use uniforms, and we do. They are the same as some years ago, and of what I heard no one says its a problem to use them. Students say that they like their uniforms, and Im part of those people. I like my uniforms and I prefer to use them than to use clothe, because you have always to think in what clothe is appropiate to put in school and all that stuff, and it is more easy to use uniforms always.

Our uniforms for normal days are a navy blue skort with a white polo style shirt, with our seal at the left of the shirt. The p.e days we have ti wear a navy blue short and a normal white shirt with the seal. I mean my uniforms are better from the other schools uniforms I have see a lot, and I wouldn't have any idea of changing them, for me they are alright. I hope how are the schools teenlife project uniforms if they wear them. Or if they wear just normal clothe like other school in the United States where I have seen it most.

Our Weekends!

2007-01-31T18:37:00.001-08:00

My respond for this week is about the question that Daniel B. publish on the Teenlife wiki. His
Question was if we had special places to go out with our friends, how often we went and how we felt afterwards. Well, here in Cartagena my friends and I usually hang out on weekends, this means that fridays and saturdays we go to places like McDonalds, Corral, Crepes, Otoyal, Club Cartagena, and campito. We go usually to this restaurants all the time, and this is also where most people of my age go, not only from my school but from other schools.

Club Cartagena and Campito are particularly different because Club Cartagena , is a club in which we go to the pool, to the restaurant, play soccer and go to parties. Most parties take place in this club and also birthdays celebration of little children too. In this club people also come to have classes, like swimming ones, or tennis classes. Now, campito is a place where we can play or see the soccer and baseball games. Many people go into tournaments of soccer and play, or they just hang out in the campito and eat pizza at the Carriola, another restaurant and then simply go and see the soccer game.

We also go to the pools on our buildings to have fun or we play sports that we are in school, like basket ball or soccer. We usually go to this places in the nights,except going to the pool or playing sports that we do on afternoons. We wait a whole week just to go on saturday or friday night to this places and have fun. But during the week we dedicate to make homework or projects together o and go to sport practices after school. Which we usually do 3 times a week, because here we prepare for the binational games and other tournaments we do with other schools in the country that are part of the same association we are in,(Southern Association of colleges and schools.)

This tournaments are very important for students, so they assist to all of the practices to be in the team and also have good grades to go to the different cities and play. This is why me and my friends always make are work during the week to have good grades for sports and also to be able to hang out on weekends. Still on weekends we also study on sundays and in the afternoons of saturdays. We also don’t hang out in restaurants and those places. We have some weekends in which we go to one of our houses and see movies, talk, and order food to restaurants. Which is a very cool plan and we don’t go out always.

After we have this great time on fridays and saturdays and still some sundays afternoons before school. We feel good because we had fun during the weekends in maybe at a party or the islands of one of our friends or things like that. But we also feel a little sad because weekend is over and we have to return to school again on monday for a whole week counting again the days in which the weekend comes back,

Our Weekends!

2007-01-31T18:37:00.000-08:00

My Concerns for Future

2007-01-11T04:38:00.000-08:00

Hi, My name is Ana Carolina, and I am 12 years old. I live in Cartagena, Colombia and I study in Colegio Jorge Washington. I like to hang out with my friends a lot on weekends and I also like to play sports, specially basketball and soccer. I also like to play them in my free time with my friends to practice. My concern for the future is wars and terrorism. This two things alerts world by becoming a part of daily life in all the world. An example is the Iraq war with the United states, this has been very common what makes things worst for tomorrow's future days. Millions of people in Iraq die each day and suffer always more and more, and by the other hand United States like Iraq innocent people have been victims of a war they didn't choose to have. Their families and most valuable monuments have suffered the war more than anyone, Twin towers was an example of the terrorism from the Iraqis for revenge to the United States by killing almost all the people in the twin towers or next to it. What damage a monument of pride to the United States and made them really suffer.

I think wars is something we should all worry about, because it means a lot of our future. World with wars can be also destroyed , wars maybe a problem that we worry about just like or same as global warming or any other problem similar that alerts world of destroying it. World war I and II was an other big example of what this wars can destroy people so easily. Jewish were victims of this war and we can se how the people of this religion have their history marked by this war that kill millions of people on purpose just because he hated that religion and he wanted to kill everyone who was Jewish no matter they were innocent or not.

They didn’t choose to suffer that and be dead in those cruel ways he use to kill al this people. This is a reflection for you and all people so they start worrying for our future but not just that, but specially in the theme about wars that is very important to our world..

Another issue that I concern about is childrens sexual abuse. Many children have receive sexual abuse always more and more every year , increasing the number of abortions in the world. Children are killing the life’s of humans that have no choice in be born or not. Imagine if the world is like this now, with this problems like sexual abuse in children. Imagine the world 20 years later, the world would be so degenérate in this themes that it will probably be common for then. Children would have no choice and people won’t do anything, while there childhood is destroyed.

At last, my third issue is global warming. For me more than a homework, this is a theme we should definetly talk about because its extremely important for us and our world. Global warming has affect the world tremendously and people do anything for the place they live in. What doesn’t make them concern about is that global warming is so important that it can practicaly destruí the world. Global warming is the cause of most Earth natural forces that don´t help Earth nor people , but destroye’s them. For example hurricanes, this storms that can be extremely strong have affected some places very hard . Hurricanes can kill millions of people and also let other millions withought homes. Ozone layer can not help us anymore because its making bigger and bigger holes , and again no one does so meeting to stop it, but instad for their own good people still use things and make things that damage the ozone layer and the rest of the enviroment.

I think we should all reflection about this and really think about what are we doping to improve things in Earth, and to the people that needs help. And if not, start to think in ways that we can improve it , and stop the damage we are making to it by thinking just in ourself .´

Europe, My some day Dream Land

2006-11-04T16:50:00.000-08:00

Well the first thingI want to tell you is that Ilove the place where Iwas born and around the people I was born that live here with me. But as many people I have a dream land and that's for me Europe. But not the whole Europe but to specific countries Italy and Spain. But between this two wonderful places I would rather live in spain because though I have family in the two places, and I have also seen how beautiful they are because I have been to. I can say that for me is easier live there because I have more family than in italy, language and more.

But still I can tell that Italy is a beautiful place I hope I can return to and stay more time. I want to spend vacations and more with my family, share things and other things i could not do living here in colombia. I dream to spend all my lifer in spain with family , friends and more. Also I want to study in a very good university that can offers me things that teach me many things in live. You can't imagine how I fell in love with this two countries and all I hope to return there.

My life is there I need to live there it is like if something said me I will be there all life. I would like to live there but obviesly always visit my family here, and also my friends because I was born here and my life is here. But that doesn't take my dream from once some day I cant say when live there and have a happy life with what I want that belongs to there. I would like to live in such an artistic and historic city like Barcelona or in a such important and also historic capital like Madrid.

And I know that maybe some day, if god lets me I'm realizing my dream. And I would realize it with the people I love and care for, and they would help me and will love it as well as me. Because that is a place I cant imagine someone not loving it. Maybe that they don't want to live there, and just want to go for vacation but not like it. It has to be too dificult to me to imagine that because I think that the people who have been there would always have the remembers of the great place they once visit like me , and remember it like a place I always love.

For me was a pleasure and a gift to have been in such a place and I hope many people can go and know this places that are waiting for their visitors to see them and have fun . As if it was their last time going that place where history and wonderful places mix to form a pleasure and beautiful, wonderful place.

My Message From "The Monster are Due on Maple Street".

2006-11-03T05:02:00.000-08:00

I think that the message the play"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" is that enemies sometimes have not to do a great conflict, because when they try to make a conflict between people, people can destroy themselves by just accusing each other and many other things that end creating the conflict. People can destroy themselves when they loose confidence, accuse each other and more. They give what the enemies want, and this makes it more easily for them.

Well I think that the message the play gives is very true. It doesn't happen with alliens or things that we think are fiction and don't exist but people have also enemies who try to make life imposible or do what they can to make a conflict between people they dont like. This happens a lot , and for me is very real. Because many people destruct themselves withought knowing that they are doing what their enemies want to. Once I had an experience because I have two brothers, a big sister and a little brother and once my little brother eated my sisters cookies that wereonly for her and he said he wasnt't and scape goat. So it formed a conflict because my big sister didn't believe me and we fighted a lot until the next day I said çmy brother that he could tell me now the truth because I was not telling my sister or my parents and he accepted.Later I toldmy sister and parents the truth and my sister and my parents noticed they were wrong about me.

well I think that somethings in the play need to change are, first that it needs to change its problem of the black out energy because in real life people don't make such a problem for just an energy black out, they just wait for energy to come and that's all. In the play instead they make such a big problem about it as if it never had happened. The other thing I think the play should change is the fatc of being the guilty being "alliens",like we still don't know if other life exists but we had make space travel and not proof give they exist so , I think the guilty should be another thing. People in the world(almost) think theres no alliens because theres not proof of having extra life in another place of space, though some people think(like me) that is impossible that in the whole space we are the only life, maybe not in this solar sistem but who knows if in another one. We have advanced a lot in space travel, because though we havent gone to many many places we have gone to some planets and moons. Well I think the equipment the blackout would affect would be, cellphones, phones, computers, lights, electronics and all type of things energy supplies. I think it should be in a little town in the united states and Tommy would know about alliens and extralife in the outer space and he would get this informations he would get it from internet and books.

My Goals For 2007

2006-10-31T12:05:00.000-08:00

My 5 important goals for the year 2007, are eating healthier, improve my grades, stop fighting with my brother and sister, obey my parents and always tell the truth unless is for a good cause. I think I’m going to accomplish all this goals because I’m sure that if a put effort I’m going to accomplish them.

But the most important and the first one I’m going to try to accomplish is improving my grades. I think that ways I could improve them are by listening to my teachers, talk less with my friends during class, doing my homework, study for quizzes and tests, and finally follow directions and pay attention during class.

The second one t is eating healthier, which is very important not just because is good for our body but also help us not to get sickness. One important way to accomplish that would be , to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and left things such as corral, McDonalds , and pizza hut that is junk food with lots of fat.

The last one of my 3 important goals that I’m going to try to do on my first week is to stop fighting with my sister. Maybe we could find the way to stop fighting by talking about ways and then accomplish them. Or we could also make a treatment that says the rules so we don’t fight by things, like TV, phone, ipod , computer etc.

I hope all my goals accomplish by a good way and all of them bring me something good for this year.. Because I think if I put effort ,I could do this year better than the last one. With effort everything can be made and goals are part of this things that can be made.

Libya's Children With New Laptop Computers

2006-10-16T18:17:00.001-07:00

I think this idea of giving laptop computers to all libyan schools for their children its very good . Nations so poor like the ones in Africa need this good things to happen to change the country to a better place and life for their habitants. This are perfect laptops that will help learn children every day more and more , and they are being sent to Libya in 2008.

The laptops will have acces to internet, and are powered by a wind-up crank . They are very cheap because they cost just $100, and they also are durable, the will start to manufacture them next year and every child will have one.

This laptops were deal by the non-profitc chairman association,Nicholas Negroponte with the libyan goverment. Nicholas Negroponte, also said he was interested in purchasing the computers to more poor African neighbours. He said things like this about the laptops: "The idea is that it fulfils many roles. It is the whole theory that learning is seamless".

I think other nations will also join this idea and agree with this association to also provide this laptops to their schools. I think this because they already said they have agreement with four other nations so this tells me, that goverenments will follow this example.

My Most Nervous Holiday Nightmare

2006-10-13T06:10:00.000-07:00

1-My most terrible holiday nightmare was when I was supposely in the United States with my family having fun.3-We where there for christmas holiday in December, with my uncles that lived in Spain. Then of finishing eating we said we wanted to go to a mall or another place and have fun. So we went into lots of stores, and buy christmas items and ice cream and everyone was happy and having a great time together.1-When we decide to enter into a big,beautiful,and good store. 2-That had products that were very cheap, good, and beautiful things for house, and even clothe.We where buying somethings(almost everyone) and the kids that where my cousin and my brother where playing there beside by my father.

4-We saw lots of people, Girls shopping in their cars, by bycicles or buses.5-They shopp, they ate, and they played. People went to the theater, to the play room and obviesly to the stores and to the restaurants.6-When we were finishing of paying, the store start to announce they were about to close. So we try to take thee things faster. So everyone was ready and we went out of the store. When we were just going into the carwe saw that my cousing and my bvrother were not there and the store was already closed but with the workers in the store until.

From the window very nervous everyone was trying to tell the workers that we need it to enter because the kids were still there. My mom was very nervous and the people didnt pay any attention, until a latin women hear my mom and it was easier for her because the women knew spanish.7-Yes, she did help us and call them by the microphone but they still didnt appear.8-Instead of being in a bathroom or a different place ,more realistic hiding they were sitted hided by the hook that hold lots of clothe. So they couldnt be seen, they find them becauses then they not also call their names but were lookinf for them.They said they didnt notice anything because they where waiting us to pay.9- While the both of them talked, play hide and seek, and also saw clothe from there.

At the end we were better from the scare that we had, and they were first scolded because my mom and dad from the nervous were very angry.But they learned there lesson and from then onI havent go again with my cousin but my brother is always near the supervision of an adult to prevent events like that ones.

Lindsay Lohan

2006-10-07T07:54:00.000-07:00

Lindsey Morgan Lohan was born in New York City on July 2 of 1986. She is the oldest of two brothers and her parents are named Dina and Michael Lohan. She did modeling in prestigious modeling agencies. Lindsey as a child also sing and dance, and her face is familiar from more than sixty television comercials including Wendys, Pizza Hut,Gap and Jello.

At 17 years old made the production of the film "Freeky Friday", she has been in the cover of prestigious magazines and she also was in the Disney film, "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" and alao in the disney films of "Parent Trap and Life Size". Lindsey did her pop single "Ultimate", that appears in the soundtrack of " Freeky Friday".Lindsey, a straight A student at her local school, excels math and science, she also loves gimnastics , swimming , ice skating, rollerblading, singing, biking, reading, writing and playing with her brothers.

This American girl, best known as the " Teen Star of Freeky Friday and Mean Girls". Is a person that has talent , and tries lots of things in her life in which all have been very good. She has had mistake as everyone but she is very good at her profession as an actress and she has been always gone far and far in her career. She has done lots of famous productions that habe been seen almost by all world.

Lindsey Lohan has also start a pop singing career showing his talent in her production films. Lindsey has obviously a big talent that she deserves. She is someone we had to be awared of because we dont know with what new things she can surprise us in the feature.. Because remember knowone knows exactly the limits of stars!

A Bad Dealing with My Problems

2006-10-05T05:19:00.000-07:00

Well, I think everyone has problems in life and we always do mistakes. I deal with problems also, and I recognize that sometimes I make serious mistakes and I dont control. Instead I do things that dont help in anything and make the problem even worse. Normally this happens to me when I am fighting or having problems with my brothers. Though sometimes I dont do this things and I solved them correctly by talking.

Some bad habits that I have sometimes I'm having a problem is maybe scream or just close my mind because I dont find a solution and I cant talk to anyone. Well yes ,when I am better and I have time to reflect after everything pass. I just go to my room and stay silent to think in what I have to do,and then talk to solve the problem or I just ask sometimes, (not many times) someone for help. Because they can give me ideas and help me to find out what is the right thing to do.

I remember once I had a problem because one time a friend called Gabriella that we knew (my friends and I)came to visit us and we tell her to hang out a Friday with us. So we deal for that Friday and she said us that she was going to " El Campito" but we didn't want, and we weren't going. So Gabriela was with her cousin and a friend, so she said that we better hang out another day because they wanted to go. I said it was ok, so we decide to go to "La Mansion"when she call me and said me that she was in her car and she could go to everywhere with us.

Some of my friends didn't want to hang out with Gaby and her friends, so I was very frustated because she call me and I didn't know what to do. So we didn't agree anything and she end in my house. We agree to go to "La Mansion" . I thought that we were the only ones going so I didn't know what to do and I was very angry. But finally I calm and I went with Gaby and her friends, though I was almost sure that my friends were not going. But everything end good because my friends did went and I learn that problems can be solved.

Hillary Duff

2006-09-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

The star, called Hillary Duff was born in september 28, 1987 in Houston,Texas. Actually she began her professional career at age six, as a dancer with the ¨Colombus Ballet Met Touring Company¨of Nutcracker. Later as a dinamyc girl she start the title role, in Disney Channel, Lizzie Mc Guaire series. On august 2002 she start singing her debut with the single ¨I cant wait on the Lizzie Mc Guaire sountrack of Walt Disney Records.

The song was quickly on the Radio Disney charts. In spring of 2003 lizzie show up with the Walt Disney Film based on Lizzie Mc Guaire called ¨Agent Cody Banks¨. Hillary splits her time in her two homes of Houston and Los Angeles with her parents, her sister Hailey and two dogs. When she isnt singing or acting she is involved in sports or volunteer activities. She is an animal advocate rights and she enjoys swimming, tumbling, doing yo-yo tricks and walking in her hands!

Her favorite hobby is ¨ just hanging¨ with her friends. She performed on stage with legend Sean Connery in the play , Playing by Heart. In july 2003 she began filming cinderella story and in december with "cheaper by the dozen".

I think Hillary Duff is a very good artist because she does so many things and works always in lots of projects and you see her that she is always in different things. I like all her movies, their so good and they are always of different themes. She also helps lots of fundations, and splits time and does what she can, to be some time with her family. She deserves to have very good projects for a lot of time because it seem´s that she put effort on everything that she does.

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My Good Opinion of Blogger

2006-09-29T06:09:00.000-07:00

My first thought of blogging posts at first was not very good. I thought it was going to be very boring and stressing, because we had to make 2 posts and comments every week and it had a day due. On Sunday morning, what means that if you didnt finish you had to work friday and saturday. But my thinking has change a lot because, I think that blogging is very good. It is very fun to learn by blogging and we can also make free posts and talk of what we want besides the post we have to make that mr hide gives the subject.

I really think that posting is something that is very good, and that I think is very cool and a fun way of learning. Posting is something not lots of teacher provide us, and Mr. Hide has let us learn and make work by this way. It also it is very helpful for our homework because he writes our homework there that remind us. He also, if we are having a quiz or test he makes little practice quizes or just practice worksheets in his blog page.Blogger also provide us this space for blogging post but with lot of security for us.

I cant think of what I thought of blogging before because is totally different from my opinion of now. My expecattions were so different.I love having a blog and comment people and that people comment in my blog. Usually on my class blogs or the other class where I blog to other friends. I also like inserting pictures and I already know how to put links, something that I thought it was very difficult but its not because blogger designs it to be easy for us, that we are just starting to learn how.

So I think that making post is very cool and we should do it always.Teachers can also learn and do it with their students so they can also try it. For that reason I recommend people who dont have blogs to make one because, my expectations were bad, yes, but now I think totally different and posting is very fun!

Shakira and her life story.

2006-09-22T06:34:00.000-07:00

Shakira is an artist thathas always broke records.When she did her first album in english she beggin to be a pop, sensation for her music and her sexy video of her hip-shaking belly dance moves. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll her full name was born in february 2, 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia into a poor family. Her mother was a native Colombian, and her father a Lebanesse descendent. So Shakira as a child soaked music from the two cultures and also hear music in English of her favorite bands.Shakira write her first song at eight and start winning contest at 10. But shakira first wasnt discover as a singer, in her school shakira was kicked out from the choire for her singing forcefully.

At 13 shakira moved to Bogota in serch for pursuing a modeling career, but instead she end signing a record deal with sony´s colombian division. From her frist english album Laundry Service to her rock and roll whenever wherever shakira will satnd on the rank of best siner-song writers in any language. The best thing of Laundry Service was that she could translate her Latin American sensibility into a new language. Shakira wanted to feel that love when she sing in Spanish the same in English.Shakira thinks that many woman indentify with her because she is the kind of women who is not going to wash her husbands clothe every day though she doesnt want to sound like a feminist leader.

For this all Colombian should be proud of shakira because she is a really good example that we should follow. This post also shows that shakira is very strong and she try her best and fight for what she wanted. Now she is gainig all the profits for that effort she made, she has sell millions of copies of her albums in the world and she is so important and break records that she has been first colombian to got so many grammys. This is the way how people should talk of Shakira, with proud.

A Disgusting, Gross Story

2006-09-21T05:27:00.000-07:00

When I was reading last week Three Skeleton Key, I thought of reading a very long and gross story. It was just a disgusting picture and I really thought that the story was going to be as gross as its pictures. I didnt want to read the story because Im very scared of rats, I think that the same or more as a snake. I just dont like this animals, in fact I hate them and I have nightmares with them. I have lots of times the same nightmare of been trapped by thousands of rats, who were biting me and almost cover me all and I was there screaming !

I have an experience in which I was walking at night but no so late, at about 7 or 8 , when I saw that a rat was walking almost next to us and went in the garden of a house of a person that I know. It was just very horrible and sometimes I mean I dont understand why they exist! So, the point of this is that i really dont like stories about rats, none of them and that I would like other things to read in English class.

A Trip to Europe

2006-09-19T17:57:00.000-07:00

Everything started almos 3 yeaars ago when i went to visit my uncles to spain, and some family in italy. I was just extremely excited when my parents told me. I think that place is another world ! I went to europe and we all came just in love of that place mostly of spain. I can remember when i said that i was going to live their for millions of reasons. I went to just many special places and 3 wonderful countries.France, Italy, and Spain evryone with its unique place.From Spain i remember all, from its stores to its museums. Rome and pizza were perfect cities, from pizza are my family which i love with all my heart and give us a perfect trip through all the city. Rome, for me the best thing was ¨the fontana di trevi¨ and its famous ice creams.

From paris obviesly the eiffel tower and the shampelisse and also its beautiful language. Madrid and Barcelona are also just awsome cities which i was inloved with. I hope i go again to this places because this make part of one of my best trips ever.

How Does Gender Stereo Type Affect Girls and Women in Afghanistan?

2006-09-14T05:50:00.000-07:00

This report I will be telling you about is made by a reporter
called Cassandra Nelson, for a report to Scholastic news, I think that
is very unfair that all those poor girls and women suffer only because a
religion group named the taliban. This women have been living something they
don't have to. Men and boys are not superior than women , and is unfair that
men have more privilages and can go to school and study. If women can also be
capable of doing that, they have all the right of going to school as they are. I
dont understand why women and girls have to use a birka if they can show their
face and body. Because they are not showing anything that is wrong.

Why do they think women have to do all house labors, cook care for children
if they can too, they have two hands also. So there is nothing that makes women
do everything in house as if they were only useless to cook and care for
children and not to go and study in school or a career. Those girls that work
for hours in their houses just by the only thing in change , if they let them go
to school. This is what a girl said of what she did in a day: "I get up before sunrise to say my morning prayers, and after that I study and prepare for school. Then I have to bring water from the well, make tea, help my mother cook breakfast, sweep the house, and help wash the dishes. I go to school at 8 am. It is just a short walk from our house. School gets out at noon. Then I come home and help my mother cook lunch and clean house. I do homework for about two-and-a-half hours in the afternoon. In the evening, I get more water from the well and help cook dinner. After all my housework is done, I study a little more and work on my embroidery. We usually go sleep at about 8 p.m. We do not have any electricity so there is not much to do after it gets dark."

Do you think is fair that a girl of 12 years has to do all this work only to go to school?It is amazing what happens around the world. Now when you don't want to go to school , remember this it would make you change of mind!

Here are 3 of my friends blog links tha I like.

2006-09-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

Here are 3 of some of my friends blog links that i like

This is catalina's blog
http://kta93.blogspot.comshe likes to paint a lot, and she loves movies..

This is isabel's blog she loves to sing and dance, she is very funny..

This is Victoria's blog
she makes me laugh a lot and sometimes she is a
little crazy.

How Does Technology Affects Our Education?

2006-08-24T05:44:00.000-07:00

Technology affects our education a lot by helping us correct our errors easily, research and find things fast with lots of data and other things technology help us on our dairy days. Because we use technology in everything, by helping us comunicate with everything around world. For example to make a reserch of something we use computers, who not only give us information, but also research definitions to our unknown words always. We have Programs as microsoft who provide us a way of writing system by correcting our errors and more.

Ana Carolina G.