Who to balme?-The HW

I think it is an interesting topic because we are always blaming the government for everything and the economic crisis is not the exception to the rule.
Regularly I hear people in the radio or in the restaurants talking about the economic crises, that the economy this and the economy that, and they always blame our government for it. But then I think, who is it responsible for it? I think that to be able to answer the question we first need to know how banks work.
We know that a bank works basically by winning the trust and confidence of people, and that if one of these is broken very bad things can occur, like for example leading us to an economic crisis. Like the example that we saw were a bank had declare that they were not going to be able to keep lending money, up to this point everything was completely fine with the bank. Later after that announcement the people started too freaked out and started to withdrawal all their money at the same time all of their money from banks. Because of this the blanks started to run out of money c cause in theory they have the money but since they invested that money the banks weren´t able to give back to all people all of their money, leading to an economic crises.
And who is it that because of one bank the rest started to fall apart? Well, because of the paranoia that the people had and because as we know banks borrow money from other banks.
Therefore I think that the ones that should be blamed is us, cause at the end we are the ones that in first place started to stop paying our mortgages and the ones that were withdrawing all the money from the banks. Maybe if banks could have predicted people’s behavior they would never had made those announcements and the money from the banks would have never been withdrawal.

Birthdays!!!

Today is my best friend birthday and I started to think why do we celebrate birthdays?

I came up to the conclusion that it all depends in our culture ans society because we all have different ways in wich we celebrate birthdays.

I think that what we celebrate is not exactly the age( number) but more what is symbolizes like getting more mature, accumulating knowledge, having different experiences that help us to grow up and mature faster, etc.

I also think that it also applie

s to other cultures, in fact I don't think that people celebrate at all the number cause then why is everyone so obsses with getting older and staying young forever by finding the fountain of the eternal youth.

If I focus in the relgious side mabe it can symbolize the day when God decided I should come to earth to achieve a specific task.It can also be a day for spending time with all the people you care and love like your family and closest friends.

What ever the reason is I just know that I love

birthdays because it is a day were you can give gifts to your loved ones and its one of the days of the year were you can spoiled them with the things they've been wanting for a while.It is also a day for reminding them how much you loved them and care about their feelings.

A new experience!!!

Five years ago I had my first trip alone, with no mommy nor daddy!!!! oupii. I went to a international summer english camp for the whole summer in Canada.

I really enjoyed being there, it was something completely new for me. They are designed for young advanced english students and they envolve tons of activities like wild water rafting, safari adventure, maid of the mist, etc.

My school days were basically divided into 3 parts. In the morning I had my regular classes with my group, they arranged them by TOEFL scores, where we saw grammar and some other stuff depending on your level. The second part of the day was after luch and it was the writting workshop. There we had our blogs were we were supposed to writte our adventures of the week and our opinions. The third and best part of the day was after the second break when we went out of school or stayed in school depending in the installations that we would require to do the activities. In these part of the day we were divided by colors, these way we would meet everyone in school.

We also had some trips were we were also arranged by colors. We went to Toronto, Niagara Falls, Ottowa, Hull, Quebec and Niagara on the Lake.

I really enjoyed the camp because it was something completely new for me and I think I grew up a little bit more. My parents also say that these types of experiences are good for maturing, cause I am able to learn how to administrate my money and time by myself.

What's happening?

Haiti

Spain

México

Solomon Islands

Argentina

Chile

India

Afghanistan

Papua New Guinea

Kyrgyzstan

Tonga

Tanzania

Indonesia

China

Alaska

Russia

United States

This is list of places were in the last 7 days they have been registered earthquakes and repetitions of 4.5 degrees and up. The list looks like if it would never end and it is getting me worried. Before the present year they have never registered so much earthquakes of these intensities. The consequences of these are terrible.

Lots of people have died, some other are in danger and in extreme conditions. Help and support from countries have been arriving to those countries that have been affected by Mother Nature. But, won't there be a point were getting help from other countries will be almost impossible I know that there are lots of countries in the world, but those countries that are able to make big donations are also being affected and what will happen to the needing people when they stop receiving help?. I just hope we never get to that point because I don't even want to think in the consequences, they should be terrible.

Could all these earthquakes be a consequence from global warming or are they just part of a natural cycle of planet earth I really don't know, and right know all I can think is when will they stop. I want them to end now before they cause more damage and worst things or before the people I know and love end harmed.

Poland in shock

“This is the most tragic event in the history of Poland outside wartime,” Tusk said in a televised speech. “Such a dramatic event is unprecedented in the modern world.”

A few days ago the Polisn President Lech Kacynski and the central bank Governor Slawormir Skryzpek died when their plane crashed in Russia when they were coming from a commemoration of the 70^th anniversary of the massacre made to Polish officers .All 96 people on board were killed.

The thing that proceeds in this case is so establish a temporary president for Poland and in two weeks call for elections. The problem here is that two candidates for president are dead along with the majority of the leaders of the opposition party.

I think it will be harder than politicians though to choose a new president for Poland.

I’ve seen in the newspapers that by know things will be like this: A deputy governor of the central bank will be temporary governing; and in April 12 there will be a meeting to discuss how things should proceed for the next elections.

People from Poland are in shock and we can prove it by the way they are acting. In front of the presidential palace thousands of people are lighting candles and praying. Churches around the whole country announced special services to pray for their deaths.

I think the peoples reaction is normal, I really wouldn’t know how to act if the president along with half of the gabinet. I would totally panick cause I wouldn’t know how things would be working nor what will happen to us.

México in Shangai

Mexico will be an active participant in the Universal Expo 2010 in Shangai that will take place from March the 1st until October. The topic of the Mexican pavilion is Living Better and will have 4,000 square meters.These pavilions are prepared to be visited by 70 million people and to show them Mexico’s current projects.

Strategic alliances will be established to implement models to promote trade, investment, and tourism.


The Mexican pavilion will house a restaurant that will serve national haute cuisine, a crafts shop, an area devoted to promotion and a Business Center that promotes trade and foreign investment in the country.

The pavilion will show the past, present and future of Mexico through three large screens that will display Mexico's history and ancient civilization; the current situation of major Mexican cities and the kite forest area on the green sl

ope that will show Mexico's main projects of sustainable development by interactive touch-screens.

The pavilion will look Amazing with the ceiling of kites. According to what I read the name for kite comes from the Nahuatl word papaloti that means butterfly which used to represent people’s aspirations to a better life, of development and flying.

The kites are from China and because of this they will be use as a symbol of friendship and the common element that will unite Mexico and China.

I think the Expo will be super interesting and I really want to go and look through the different pavilions. I knew about the expo because my dad told me about it and by chance it happened to be in the same days as the summer course that Tec offers to the high school students; therefore it is very likely that I go to China this summer.

Invictus

I decide to made a blog of the movie Invictus because I enjoyed a lot this movie and because it is a really nice one; apart from that I remembered that on class you told us about a book ( I can’t remember the name nor the author) that has basically the same theme that the movie has. In these case is about how Nelson Mandela, the South African president, achieves to unify the apartheid-torn lands. How he achieves it? well I am not really telling you so that you watch the movie; but the movie is centred a lot in rugby ( yes, rugby the sport) and how rugby’s national team becomes a key element to the country unification in a political strategy. This movie teach you that even thought it may not always be clear, behind every decision and act there’s a reason. It also gives us an overview of how political strategies are organized and the importance of paying attention to small little details that may seem insignificant but turn to be very helpful at the end and without them achieving your goal could get even harder.

Ecuador Team Work...

Ecuador is a small country in Latin America. Its former president its Rafael Correa and its vice-president is Lenin Moreno. The economy is principally based in the production of bananas and its main social issue is the inequality and the racism against poor people. But my blog isn’t about Ecuador but of my team.

I personately think we worked good and on time, although I have to admit that at the beginning I thought that we were really behind from the rest of the countries because we had just made research like 2 or 3 times before these weekend; Thanks to god I realized today that we weren’t behind in any single way cause we had finish with our 1st advance since Friday and many teams today hadn’t complete their worked or they made research in their countries for the first time this weekend. Maybe the reason that we were able to finish everything last week was that I had constantly been pushing Manuel and Abigail to research about Ecuador. It wasn’t easy to find updated information cause every time we wanted to use that information we realized that it was from 2002 or 2005 and I didn’t think that information before 2009 could be considered recent.

The good thing about me been w

ay to strict or pushy, how ever you want to call it, with my team was that we didn’t have a stressful weekend and that I think that Manuel is more than ready for Azmun cause on Friday I made him read the Plan de Desarollo Politico y Economico del 2010 for Ecuador, so by now he should be able to tell you the alliances, the main issues and how is the government planning to solve them. Maybe if I hadn’t been like a mom after my kids with the research right know we wouldn’t have finished anything.

DRUNK Driving...

Last week my mom was invited to a TV program as a Regidora to talk about alcohol consumption in teenagers and the possible solutions, the reason why she was chosen was because she has a teenage daughter and they thought my mom could have more influence in people if she talked as the mother of a teen. As a formal authority my mom said that she was going to ask for more security in the streets and in the stores cause in first place teens are not legally allowed to buy alcohol and that there should be a way to sanction people that sell or buy alcohol to minors.

Before that day my mommy and I had been talking about alcohol in teens. After some chit chat we came to the conclusion that teenagers drink in most cases because of peer pressure, lack of attention from their family and friends, or to forget their problems.

If you think of it as I did that day, alcohol alone isn’t that big of a problem, the problem really starts when drunk people go out of their houses to the streets and causes disturbs to the people that aren’t drinking. The problem gets even bigger when the drunks (in these specific case teenagers) take the car keys and go out. While they are driving they press the accelerator to its maximum and because of their drunkenness their reflexes are slow and most of the time they fail in acting on time causing severe accidents.

Drunk drivers make our streets a dangerous place. My dad used to say " if those kids want to kill their selves that’s fine for me, as long as they don’t injure the innocents"; then here is the thing: drunk people don’t think of the consequences of their actions and while driving, most of the time the people that get injured are the innocents that had the awful luck of crashing or being involved in an accident caused by drunk guys; how unfair, don’t you think?

ABC Accident

The ABC tragedy, Who’s fault is it? In my opinion this whole whose fault is it issue got out of control and turn completely in a political issue.

Looking for the responsibles to get them into jail, I think that isn’t the solution because it was an accident; Accidents are just accidents!!!. If the parents of the children want to blame someone they should start by blaming their selves cause you as a parent shouldn’t leave your kids in a place were you know he or she isn’t safe, so if you leave your children in there and you know it isn’t safe to leave them there then you are leaving them under your own responsibility.

Something else that I realized was that after the accident, the parents focused more in the elections than in getting a good medical service for the kids that were still alive; and as cruel as it may sound I think that those kids are fare more important at the moment than the ones that died; Why? simple, cause the dead kids aren’t going to come back and they are not suffering, while the kids that are still alive are suffering and struggling to continue alive.

People all over Sonora started to protest and blame a specific political partie and converted the accident into a Political thing, which I think it wasn’t the correct thing to do. I know that the parents from the kids that died received some money to pay the funerals and those things, and that after they accepted the money they declared that Bours wanted to buy their silence. But then I thought how do they dare to declare those things after they accept money? I just think that’s really ironic.

Then there was another whole scandalous thing, it turned that the owners of the day-care were related to the wife of the Ex- Governor of Sonora, Lourdes Laborín, and so after this we have that they found that in reality the owners were related to the Former Presidents Wife Margarita Zavala, but how come the people never knew that? well as I said before, it was because of the way the things in Sonora were being managed by political interests ( notice that elections were less than a month away).

I really cant believe how can people be so mean and cruel when they are after personal interest. I could continue talking about certain things and details I got to know because of my parents jobs, but I don’t really know until what point is it appropriate. Now I am only thinking, if this was used to manipulate state elections I don’t want to know how far can parties go to manipulate the next federal election, there’s nothing we can do but to wait and keep an eye on what is happening.

Google WORLD!!!

What do you think about when you hear GOOGLE?, well before my last class of Plan de Vida y Carrera I could only think of it as a very famous Searcher(buscador). In fact, I had never thought before of Google as a very successful company.

In class we saw a couple of videos that show us how Googl

e works and I have to admit that I was really surprised and absolutely amazed with what I learned. It turns out that Google gets all its money from selling space and time for advertisements. I couldn’t believe how much money they got. The company is very careful with its publicity, they don’t want their pages so look overloaded or full of ads, that’s why when you go their pages you don’t find tons of publicity that over crowds your main page and distracts you cause after all that’s from where they get all the money.

All the people that works in Google are super smart, but being smart isn’t enough for Google, their employees should also have several interest like hobbies and be super creative; All this is because they are in a constant change.

For Google creativity is a huge dea

l, therefore the company does everything at its reach to keep its employees happy, relaxed, and comfortable. If you work for Google you have the best installations you could wish for while you work. There’s like 3 restaurants that offer different types all food, from veggie to Chinese; near your office there are several refrigerators filled with tons of products.

In the relaxation part they have basketball courts, gym, yoga, pilates and dance classes. There are huge green areas were you can have a walk, ride a bicycle or take scooters.

The best part is that all these services are completely FREE!!!.

Google workers don’t have specific schedules, they have super flexible schedules. They also do not use uniforms nor have a dress code. That way you feel comfortable with what you go to work and you are able to give a 120% of your dedication to complete your tasks with excellence.

In my opinion this is a complete company cause they focus in technology, the human resources and the efficiency. Google also thinks green and does everything at its reach to reduce contamination.

Gay Family?

Lately we have heard in the radio, television, news and almost everywere about gay marriages. In some parts it its allowed and in other ones it is illegal. I don´t think it has something wrong, in fact I am happy for them, because that way they live like a regular couple and between the 2 of them they will be able to get higher credits that they can use to buy a house, or new car.

But then there´s this new issue, should they be able to adopt a child? many persons probably think they shouldn´t, because they are afraid that they are going to abuse the child, or because thats wrong simply by saying a family should be conformed by a mother and a father; but then I think, whats with the single parent family? shouldn´t the that be not good either just because there is no mom or dad; and the kids that grow surrounded by only women or men? isn´t that kind of like the same, beeing race by a single sex (men or women). I think that there is nothing wrong with that and if you think about I bet that an orphan child would prefer to live with a gay marriage than in any institution. I made a little research and according to psycologists those children aren´t going to develop any psicological problems just by having a gay family.

I think its a good idea, maybe that way more kids would be adopted, after all no family is perfect.

TANDEO

What do you think of when I say WATER? probably in the same thing I do "lack of water" and if you live in Hermosillo in TANDEO.

Water is a big issue in the world, no country has enought water for its people, exept maybe for Canada, and even they know water is a limited resource.

So, how does this affects me directly? well, in my particular case it doesn´t affects me that much because I have a tinaco, but it still changes some things like that we can only do our laundry in the afternoons (when the sun is really HOT!!!), the same goes for the dishes and my little garden isn´t that nice anymore. But to others it affects them even more because they don´t have tinacos and they have to adapt their shedules to their water hours, like for instance if the boy was used to shower himself in the mornings now he has to do it in the night and vice-versa.

Since we have no big water supplies near the city there is no other option than to rationalize water at the moment.

Maybe the real solution for us is to build a desaladora. The problem is that we also don´t have money to build one; then for Hermosillo´s people at this moment there no other choice than to adapt.

China blocks GOOGLE

I knew that in China they blocked some pages that contain inapropiate graphics or information according to the laws of regulation in China, but I would have never imagine that they would block an entire server like Google which is very popular across the world. They suposely did that because Google did not have good filters in its information and that children could easily acess to non proper material ( porn). In the other side Google says that they have good filters and that they were working in some improvements on them.

I think that China is more concerned about the information Google gives of this country than what Chinesse goverment declares; or China is just being smart because that way companies and nations that want to keep negotiating with China will have to follow its regulations in order to be able to stay in the Chinesse stock market.

Big B is watching

Big Brother is watching!!!, even thought we are not in this famous show in this particular case Big B refers to the goverment and some companies around the world. Goverment and Companies declare its for our good and security, it is suppose to make our lives easier which its not a bad idea at all but here is the thing- Big Brother is watching, this means that they will have acces to your personal information when ever they wanted and look at everything, from e-mails to phone calls and even using your laptop camera to watch you.This way it would be easier to recognize everyone and frauds would be less commun.They will be able to find someone no matter where they are, throught phone calls, e-mails or by identifying you through: your pupil, voice or face scaning.

The Goverment possition is " if you don´t commite crimes, if you are not a drug dealer, then what do you have to hide?; but until what point is it acceptable?; Wouldn´t it be attempting to your privacy and freedom?.

Maybe it would be a good idea if they were only aloud to do this with certain people, like people that have commited a crime, or are under investigations.But even then we wouldn´t be sure that this information couldn´t end in the wrong hands, and if this happens the security system would have failed and our privacy wouldn´t be a private thing any more.

Racism against Haiti

Last week the deputy from PRD Ariel Gómez León during his radio program said some comments about the people from Haiti. Hearing this you would think he had said something about being soildare with their condition and that as a society we should join and help them; but to the contrary he started to say tha the people from Haiti are "muertos de hambre" and really despective comments about the people. He also said that they deserved to die because they are black more exactly he said " negros abusivos!!!"; In what way could he think people from Haiti are abusive?

I think that after everything they are suffering people shouldn´t be critizing them nor beeing racist at them, we should all be trying to help. If they were a poor country now they are even worst than you could imagine.

As far from the deputy Ariel "El Chunko", its a shame that someone like him is representing us;he is supose to have if not the same critiria Mexican citizens have at least watch what he is declaring because we may not all agree with him. Ariel should recieve a strong punishemnt.