Saturday, February 24, 2007

TLP Project

Now that I'm Nohora's pattner, I have to combine her information with mines. I had been reading her blog and it's really interesting. It talks about how does teenages are affected by drugs, etc. I read a story in Nohora's blog about John Smith. Is about a guy who has two parent which are really busy, specially his father who had returned in that moment the owne of onw of the famouse clubs in his country. Their parents couldn't see his drug using synthoms.

One day, John was hanging with some strange guys who made John be involved in the world of drugs. John wouldn't stop asking for money from his mother. Her mother never knew he had been using that money for buying drugs. Then their parents brought him o Austria for some medical treatments, and, John was really lucky that he got better.

But then, when John Smith returned to his home, the ¨friends¨ or the strnge guys he had met before told him that Colombia was the paradise of drugs. He took travel to Colombia in look fo drugs. Then, his parents were really worried about his son. They had told their parent that some guys told John that Colombia was a paradise for drugs so he might probably be there.

One day John returned crazy by consuming to much drug that he destroyed all the apartament. The neighboors, who where listening to all the noises and screams John was making, rapidly they called to the police. They catched John, informing their parents that he was in Colombia, sumarizing all what had happened in that day. He was brought to the clinic of Nohora'sdad, which he made a good job.

Finally, John was with their parents but he feeled the need to consume drugs. One day he mixed cocaine with water, then, he inyected it and died. John died at age 24. Really young.

What I think of this is that is a really sad story having a young man of 24 years to dye so soon by drugs problem. It really impact me because John was better for a moment, the bad, then good and then bad. The worst thing was about a strange guy saying to John that Colombia is drug paradise!!! That was really frustrating to me because lately I had been noticing in every where, by websites, newspaper, friends, etc., saying that Colombia is the world's most drug produced and imported, kidnappings, and much more. Specially to Colombia which is where I live. Sometimes I get scared by Colombia but I know that we as a country we will recoverall those problems and gossips and fame we have of beeingdrug users and much. I advice you to read Nohora's blog which is really interesting because his father is a psicologis and much more, which means that he is relly experienced in all that information.

If you want to know more about this story with more details, visit Nohora's blog which is : http://titina-zone.blogspot.com/ I recomend you to read it all, specially the part of the death of John Smith. It will impact you....Based on real life, and his father is special in all those problems and issues based on teens :P

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Drugs reaches Cape Town, Africa

In Cape Town, their is a drug among teens and kids called in the United State 'crystal meth', which is a powerfull drug that makes you feel active, alert and a feeiling of beeing strong. This drug is called tik in Cape Town. That drug makes you see families tering out, bulling in schools, crime, violence and much more.

You can find it in every corner. Some girls are selling themselves, or in other words beeing a prostitue for the tik in a staw. These drugs are selled in a piece of straw which are melted with both ends and filled up with tik.

A girl who was in a rehabilitation for drug addicts was consuming this drug with a group of friends at school, in 2003. She said that the drug was awesome. That you could feel the rush till your toes and made you feel agitated. She said she could talked all the time. For her, the comedown is horrible. She says that she could feel her stomach beeing ripped out, and she returned aggresive. She beated her brother and sister, and swearing to her mom and dad.

Some addicts areup to ten, or even much younger! The girl said that he tik was really descructive, not only the people who use it, but also the family.

This drug had been through all Cape Town, this city is ruled by gangs and unemployaments that are reached up to 80%. Some teenages sell tik to support their family or steal money, cloth, and everything they look that they like.

Methamphetamine is no longer used by Americans, but in Cape Town, this growth has been explosive. Some people says that tik had grown dramatically. Every years it increases, as it decreaser the years of the people using it...

The drug that makes you feel good had been published its ingredients on the internet for people to do it on their homes.

Teens says that this drug makes you feel really good, as if you had were really 'relaxed'. This drug just have what teenages want. This drug had been returned into middle-class drug. Its really cheap and everyone can buy it. If you start using it at 15 years old, you would be problaby spending 8 $ a day, and for years later, 100$.

For some users, this drug causes irritability, insomnia, confusion, tremors, convulsions, anxiety, paranoia and aggression. This drug is related with HIV 'cause of teenages behavoir sexually.


We've seen a dramatic increase in tik use in the past couple of years,"
said Grant Jardine, director of the Cape Town Drug Counseling Center. "It is
increasing every year, and the age at which people start using is getting
younger and younger each year."


What I think of this information called "Drug takes toll on Cape Town's teens" was really surprising because it tells all the story of how teenages life in Cape Town, which makes me see a bad image of that city as a poverty one. This article really concerned me and surprised me also because teenages are consuming this drug since 10 years old and much younger.

I want to lead my path on what I had learned of this to teenages, so they reallize how people had lived and how they had wasted there money, and much more bad things.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Teenages Drugs Addicts


What I learned was that a guy whose family loved him so much, didn't wanted him to smoke cannabis, which is a drug. The guy's dad was sad and worried because police said that they were persecuting or arresting guys under 18. The dad's heart sank. Then, he was at university and he fell in. One day, the guy was using another kind of drug which was 20 more times harmful than cannabis. One day, the guy returned crazy, and had a seriously ill, which changes his family for ever. Before a Christmas night, the guy had packed to go, the parents though that he would be off during the weekend, but he didn't, he had went to London train station, and he had rang his family from France. Their parents were totally in panic because his son was on the other side of the world in search of of home. The guy had registered as homeless and their parents were worried besides were he has, but they were worried also because people would think that they had kicked him out from home. He wouldn't tell his family where he was. Their parents though that how he could do this if he had everything he needed, and such a loving family to have come to this. Now, his son had abandoned his family, he is making a new live and putting back his nightmare. Now he is working and he stopped smoking cannabis during 6 years. But his family was really worried about him because they had never heard of him, they didn't knew if he was better or worse, but still, the guy will never come back to home because of the horrible memories. His dad doesn't think that his son is suffering illness by cannabis, he thoughts that its an epidemic mental illness that his son is passing through.

My son was consuming a drug which was 20 times more harmful than cannabis




My opinion of this information is that I think that this information is really interesting because since you read it you cant stop reading this article I found because its about a family and a problem that they had with their son. But in one side, I don’t agree with the guy’s dad because for 5 years the guy had been smoking cannabis, and he though that the illness the guy was felling was just a mental problem, and its really logical that the drug had done this to him because is proved that drugs harm you. I also think that first of all, the guy didn’t received so much attention from his parents because their parents practically didn’t knew what was happening to him until we had his illness and all the stuff… So that’s my opinion.

I want to expand my knowledge of this topic to all the children and teenagers that are addicted to drugs and everything because drugs may cause many crazy things as killing people or as in the story moving 400 km from your house to a unknown place where you had never been to, and make your own living since you had 17 years old, or many more things that happens in your mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6314329.stm

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Teen Life Proect, Phone Call

Hi its me, Stephanie! Today I'm writting about how much I loved the phone call we did on Monday. I think It was really fun talking t someone that you were working or chatting with! You could finally hear their voices, and make a guess of how they could be, etc. It was really excited because we were a Mr. Hide's apartament and we could finaly see his baby called: Cohen Robert Hide. It was cool having to see a new born baby of your teacher. It was very crowed, but still, it was fun! The best part of all, was the view of Mr.Hide's home. Now I'm writting everything that happened from the beggining to the end. By messenger,they told me that it looked like we were going to do the phone call at my teachers home. Thanks God someone told me because we had o print to print a permisio slip and sign it to go there. If that person wouldn't told me about it, I wouldn't had been there. But I did. The next day, which was Monday, I waited all the day thinkin about the phone call, till it was 12:00 P.M. We all converged at the exit, ready to walk to our teacher's home. We walked almost about five minutes to ger there. When we were there, It was imposible for 40 kids to get on the elevator to Mr. Hide's apartament on time, so we had to run 20 bookstory ! It was frustrating because people were pushing and a girl called Mayi falled JA JA JA JA . But she was okay. We all get up stairs, all sweaty. But we wer there. We entered to Mr. Hide's house, it was clean and nicem you could hear Cohen crying, and by the sofas, there was an beautifull view. Something that we hated was that we were tired, and there was no Air conditioner! But still, I love that day. Finally we logged on Skype by Mr. Hide's laptop, then we heard the voices of Ashley, from Mr. Fisher’s class, and Anna. I don’t remember very well the names of some girls, but there was a girl whos voice was really slow. But that is very good because we could understand all of what she was saying. Suad made a really good job, aswell as Natalia Y. But Nathalie didn’t made a good job as I imagine, but the best part was Mr. Hide’s baby, this was really cool because we saw Cohen Robert in real life, instead of photos!It was really cute!! Ms. Karla was carrying him, and Cohen didn't ry about 40 kids staring at him and going like "awwww" or "how cutey!" In conclusion, I really loved doing that phone call because we could all comunicate with each others, and we could now some cultures and things about people of other places, and it was really excited. I hope we could do another thing like the phone call with other kids around the world because I really enjoy it, and we hope we could have another privilege as that one, because no other school in Cartagena gets the opportunity to do such thing like this.