A green person

I have learnt environmentally friendly practices with my brother because he studied environmental engineering.  He has a big concern for the environment.

I always try to recycle my litter, and in my house everybody have a special concern with our garbage. About this, my mom makes your own compost with food waste.

Generally, I don´t use a bike as a transport because I use the public transport but I use my legs too. I really like walking.

I support to Greenpeace but my support aren´t economic. Sometimes the organization sends me e- mails to sign and to support any environmental cause in my country.  I think that my contribution is little but isn´t less important.  

I want that my country have other environmental policy. I would like make conscience on the people and I would like teach to people about the importance of to care the environment.

My brother is an expert to measure carbon footprint but He never has calculated our carbon footprint. However, I think that our environmentally friendly practices contribute to reduce our carbon footprint. Our environmentally friendly practices are: to reduce our energetic consume, to recycle (paper, metal and plastic), to make compost, to reduce our water consume, etc.

In our society missing environmental education and environmental conscience because the people don´t think in the damage caused to our planet. They think that our planet is eternal but isn´t.

In Santiago we have an awful pollution and our city is not a great place to living, the citizens have a lot of health problems for this pollution. Santiago don´t have any useful measure to avoid this critical situation of contamination.  

The local elections

I am registered to vote, because in Chile the registration is automatic and the vote is voluntary. But this situation is very new because only this year started this new condition.

I think that the electoral campaigns are very irritating because I hate see everywhere poster with smiling faces. These smiles are so fakes and the faces are some nice for one reason: Photoshop.

I the think that politician should be more intelligent and they should avoid buy a lot of posters and they should focus their campaign in actions. They should spend time and money on more important things. As well, they contaminate our district with a lot of garbage, smiling garbage.  

I think that a politician should have a real worry for the people`s problem and Candidates should give real help to people, the candidates shouldn´t worry for money or for your own benefit. They shouldn’t worry for the power or influence; they should work to country not to political party. I think that they should work for a better country. Sadly, in my country politicians don´t have these characteristics.

I never considered becoming a politician, because I think that the Chilean´ s politic is awful. I prefer work in something that gives me an option for help to people. I prefer be unemployed that be a politician. If I am a politician I will be contaminated with terrible ideas and I will become on a bad person.

Comment is free Kids in solitary confinement: America's official child abuse

This news is about children on prison in Usa and how they are subjected to psychological torture. On this news, we can found information about one report of Human Rights Watch, this report have testimonies of 125 children in jail.

The interesting of this news is that we can appreciate the pain of these children. One testimony is of Molly, she is sixteen years old and she described her solitary confinement like:

"[I felt] doomed, like I was being banished … Like you have the plague or that you are the worst thing on earth. Like you are set apart [from] everything else. I guess [I wanted to] feel like I was part of the human race – not like some animal."

The psychological damage caused for been in prison in children is awful, because they have a special vulnerability because many of these kids have a "developmental immaturity is compounded by mental disabilities and histories of trauma, abuse, and neglect."

On prison and jails is common that the guards can punish with periods of isolation. The guard punish for violating prison rules. Other kids are isolated as a form a “protective custody” because sometimes they are in risk.

The solitary confinement is considered as a form of abuse and Liz Ryan, who directs the Campaign for Youth Justice,  say that this confinement is harmful to children because is a form of torture. He says that the children are on prison because they don´t have the resources for pay to make bail but not because they are a public risk.

The governments should make changes in politics public about the children on prison. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/children-solitary-confinement-america-prisons

My best friend

Hello classmate! Today I will talk about my best friend.

For me, the friendship is something very important in our life. When the people have friends, they living happier. However, I think that is very difficult find a real and good friend.

Cata is my best friend and my cousin too. She is younger than me, she is eighteen years old. We became  friends six years ago, approximately. 

I  met her when she was born, but I don`t remember this situation because I was very young, I was three years old. 

I think that she is my best friend because we have a really nice friendship. I know that I can count on her and she knows that I will always be for her .

She is a very special person  for me because she is my confidante. I can talk about everything with her. When I am sad, she always makes me feel better. 

I have a lot of memories about her, but I remember one special situation. Four years ago, we went on holidays together, and I remember when we went to walk on the countryside. We talked about life for hours. 

She is my best friend because she is amazing, she is the best. I love her! :D