TLP Answer to Social Question Post

Do you have any special places where you and your friends can go and have fun? Well, we have several places where we go to hang out. There is place called Campito 2010 where me and mi friends go to play soccer in an artificial grass soccer field were we don't get hurt when we fall down. We like to listen lot music so the radio station that we most like is called "La Mega" where there the DJ puts a lot of Reggaeton music or Vallenato which is a Colombian music; sometimes the DJ puts some rock. That radio station is the most heard in Cartagena (where my friends and I live) and has a great influence in us.

Another place me and my friends like to go is to the Cartagena club which is a club were there are soccer fields, tennis courts, pools, gym, and many stuff more. We like to go there because is like a meeting point were we meet with our friends from different schools around the city or a different class people. When we do a party we like to dance so we dance mostly Reggaeton which is a Caribbean rhythm or music made in Puerto Rico and Vallenato that is a Colombia Rhythm or music as I've said before and this music is really cool, because you have to do many movements.

Well to organize our selves and determine if we are going out, we use the MSN Messenger to talk to our friend and we ask where and at what our we are going out. In the class we have a very social life and almost all the weekends we go out to hang out with some friends no matter where we are going or when but we do it.

We the boys, sometimes when we want to play soccer instead of going to the Campito 2010we go to a place named by us "la Punta" that means the end or the peak and it receives that name because is at the end of a neighborhood located in a somehow Peninsula where there is a soccer field of sand but the bad things is that is almost always busy and it doesn't has much illumination. Also we go to a friends house (Andres) and he has some small soccer goals and we take them out and put them in the street and play. Sometime we got to the Cartagena Club and play in the soccer field in there.

Another place where we go out and like to hang out is called "El Paseo Peatonal" that is a place where you can walk, ride bike or skates, and go jogging. We like to walk there and because it is by the Bahia it has an interesting view.

When we go out to eat, we almost always we go to Mc Donald’s or to another place where burgers are sell. When we have a big party, we the boys, go to one of us house to change and all that and to wait for the party to start and go all of us together at the same time.

J.D.'s Personal Interesting Facts

Hi! My name is Juan David but my friends call me J.D. I am 12 years old but in a month I’ll be 13 years old because my birthday is on February 15.

Maybe my birthday will be a soccer game in a place called el Campito 2010 where there is a soccer field with artificial grass so when you slide down you won’t get hurt. Beside the Campito 2010 there is a place called the "Carriola" where there people sell the most delicious pizza in Cartagena. My life in Cartagena is about 75%being at school studying and 25% hanging out with my friends. Because in Cartagena there is hot but no too much, it is cool to play soccer. Most of the times that I hang out with my friends, we go to play soccer in some place around. In Cartagena because it is by the Caribbean Sea, we hear all kinds of Caribbean music such as Reggae, Reggaeton, Salsa, and many others.

Life in Cartagena is very cool and the best of this city is that in Cartagena there are many historical places and the old city (A place in Cartagena) is surrounded by walls. In the old city there are the best and most expensive houses because of their size and their old time looking and most of them have pools in it. When you are walking by the old city there you could see many people from Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, U.S., Canadians and many others.

These last two years there has been a lot of building constructions in Cartagena and I am really concerned about them because many people from the outside countries are the ones that are buying all those apartments in the buildings. I think this event is going to improve the city's economy because all these people will talk good about Cartagena and there is going to be much more tourism.

Also, I am really concerned about terrorism in my country because even though Colombia is the best country in the world for I, but it has some insecurity. There are many revolutionary groups such as the FARC (Armed Revolutionary Colombian Forces) that kidnap people and destroy many things. The FARC is one of the mayor causes of why people is afraid to travel by car to distant places because they dress like normal people but they have guns and you don't know if is a FARC member or if it is a normal civil people. Sometimes when you are traveling by car, they dress like an army soldier and make your car stop and you thinking that is a security cause you stop and when you stop, the steel you everything or they kidnap you.

The greatest event that I am concerned is about the poorness in Colombia that is really great. Poorness is a big trouble because it makes the poor people still things and kidnap people to exchange them for money. I think our president is doing a hard effort to improve our country's economy and to make it more secure. The worst of this is that cities get each time more insecure and you feel free because you know that you are in danger of getting robbed. Also the people with cool cars get their paint all scratched and the paint for cars is very expensive.