"Semana Diabla"

What a good topic right? "semana diabla" … the best of the bests. We as adolescents LOOOOVE this week of the year! It is a week for us to behave badly. It is a week for having extreme fun with friends. It is a week for… disaster, deaths, accidents, misunderstandings… Everyone here know what am I talking about, don’t you? I know that this week is very funny, but we don’t know when something bad is going to happen to us or to someone near to us. I insist, we as adolescents don’t know how to measure danger. Visiting Kino Bay this week has turned out into a tradition year by year. Even though there have been lots of accidents, the young society continues visiting Kino Bay these days.
Visiting the beach in the “semana diabla” consists of lots of alcohol and drugs. Adolescents usually go to Kino Bay because they go without their parents, so they do whatever they please to do. They drink until they get to feel no pain. They not even get to sleep because they don’t want to lose any minute for drinking. This is the reason why things happen… Drunk and irresponsible adolescents are the culprits of the tragedies that occur during the week.

I’m not saying that every girl and boy who goes to the beach get drunk, but the majority does. I for example, I am going to Kino Bay, but I am going together with my friends, and my entire family. It is the first time in my life that I go to the beach this week. I cried my parents to give me permission to go, and they agreed, but they are going with me. I don’t see any problem with that, they are going to take care of me : )

I know that only YOU teacher read every blog post, but I really hope that some of my classmates get to read this and make conscience.

PLEASE take care. Have fun, but healthy fun... I love you all, and I’ll see you at Kino Bay!

BE CAREFUL!

The principal of the health Secretary, Jose Angel Villa lobos, said that during vacations the vials accidents increase form 10 to 15 percent.

Also he said that the car accidents were the first cause of dead on the population from 25 to 35 years, when half of these can be prevented and also for this cause 24 000 persons die each year! Between 40 and 60 percent of the accident are associated with alcohol consumption.

This accidents cause costs of $126 million each year, from which 5 to 10 milliards corresponds to the health sector.

They are making campaigns to prevent this type of accidents especially during this vacations that includes campaigns of communication about vial security, training, vigilance, and alcoholmeters.

The objective of this campaign is to reduce between 40 to 50 percent the number of accidents and dead.

The World health organization says that each year die 1.2 millions of people, while between 20 and 50 million are injured because of this.

Having precaution during vacations is very important. We want that our family and friends return complete, but also they want that we return like that. So, let’s be very alert of what happened to us take the necessary measurements .There are so many accidents that can be prevent it, it’s important to take care of us and every body around us.

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.

Drinking and Driving

Well.. I decided now to write about this topic because I am more than tired and sick of my daddy’s e-mails. He sends me hundreds of mails daily relating to driving accidents and alcohol drinking. I don’t know where he takes all those e-mails from, but each mail he sends me is very different from the other ones, even though they are still talking about the same topic: DRIVING WHILE BEING DRUNK.

We as adolescents are not completely aware of the consequences of all of our actions. How many times have we heard or seen campaigns telling you not to drink and drive? Don’t you realize why all this insistency is? Think about it. The young population in these years is much more vulnerable to have car accidents because of the effects of the alcohol. Now a day there is no “good” party without alcohol, so eeeeeeverybody drinks. There are some exceptions, as for example the designated drivers, who are not very common among us.
When you drink and drive, you are not conscious of what you are doing. You are turning out to be a danger for yourself and every person who passes by your way. Is this fair? Is it fair to crush with a car whose driver is 100% sober? NOT!

I understand the preoccupation of my parents in some way. Because I drive, my parents make an emphasis on this topic. They try to make me prevent this kind of accidents. Until today I haven’t make both things at the same time. Try to make the same : )

While driving

Last Tuesday it was the day for citizenship at school. Our group was in charge of telling the people about the “No Zone Phone” campaign, and the goal was that they commit to one of the three policies while they are driving (not use the cell phone at all, don’t message, or use free hands). I think that this campaign that started Oprah Winfrey is really important and will really have a great impact because there are many accidents due to the use of cell phones while driving, and people should be conscious of their acts.

In the lasts years driving has become a problem. There have been many accidents from young people because they drive with high speed, or they are drunk, or they are using cell phones. I think that the government should be really strict, first at giving the licenses: not because they drive well in a block that means that they are really good drivers so they should do other exams (as in other countries), also they must make the people respect the speed, and if they see a minor driving without license make the right procedure to pay a ticket, not giving them the money because with this the country doesn’t grow. I consider that if people pay the ticket they could be more conscious of their acts and they won’t do them again because of the consequences, or at least they would try not to do them so the police don’t charge them.

But not only we can put the responsibility in the police, the person who is driving must be conscious of what he or she is doing. They must be aware that in the worse of the cases, they can cause a death if they do something bad.