"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!

Alcohol: a problem in our society.

Last night I was driving home, a car, driven by a drunk guy did not stop and almost crash me. Luckily, I stopped and I was able to get out of the problem. But, Why am I talking about this?... I think alcohol nowadays is a big problem in our society. People start drinking when they are like 11 years old and young people fall easier to an addiction, so, when they grow up, they become alcoholics. Specially here in México and in the north part of the country is where alcohol is consumed more and this is because of the hot weather.

In about 3 to 4 weeks, it will start the “cuaresma” time, and at this time, people from about 14 to 22 go to Kino and have “fun” drinking, as they call it. Hopefully this year things will be less dangerous because yesterday a new was published and it was about police trying to be stricter on this, and there will be more protection.

Personally, I think drinking alcohol is not necessary to have fun or as some people say “It is not necessary to have fun but it helps you to have a better time”. I think teenagers must be responsible and accept that they are not allowed to drink and that it is better if they do it that way because doing that save a lot of people from death.

¡THINK BEFORE DRINKING!

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 : )