"Being a girl" by Jessica Macías

 

 8/10 boys think being a girl is easy or that a girl´s life is much more easier than a boy´s life, but that´s not true, being a girl has it´s advantages and disadvantages.

Girls mature faster than boys and we are more responsible, doctors say that we mature faster so we can be prepared for the future, so we can be ready to be mothers or just to be prepared for our jobs or the things we will do.

Another advantage is that we are cleaner and that includes responsibility, because if you are not responsible you CAN´T be clean, that´s why we are cleaner.

This advantage is the best: We can like any celebrity we want without being judged all of the time, for example: I had a friend (guy) that liked One Direction and he started to get judged. We can also hug however we want also without being judged.

We also have some disadvantages, for example: We have our period and that´s really annoying because our humor changes and we get all moody, I know that because of  my mom even if I don´t do anything she gets angry at me and why? I DON´T KNOW!!!!!!!!

We also give birth and that´s also really annoying, because any girl likes to be fat, and when when you are pregnant you are fat for 9 MONTHS .  I remember when I was really young and didn´t know where the babies were those 9 months, and my aunt was pregnant I saw her belly and asked her: “Why are you so fat?” and she was like “what did you just said?!”.

In conclusion being a girl can be pretty annoying sometimes, but we need to be thanked for what we are.

Fireworks entered the house! by Cynthia Rincon

One night in Christmas celebration my cousins Emanuel, Alex and me were outside playing with the fireworks, then I enter to eat a "bimbuñuelo"…

Then my family heard a scream and in that moment a firework enters to the house and passes   near my mom and my cousin Alison and almost burned them and went under the chair and jump to the sofa. In that moment my uncle Arturo took a towel from the kitchen to grab and stop the firework.

The family was scared and angry because somebody could have gotten hurt or the house could get in fire. Before that experience my father and my grandfather say to my cousin’s father that please don’t bye more fireworks.

I think that burning fireworks is dangerous because can cause a big fire and burn the house or somebody. When you are going to burn fireworks it is important to have an adult watching and helping you.

 

 

Advantages & Disadvantages of being a girl by Johana Sarzo

 

Women have had to face a lot of difficult things for earning the respect they have these days. Being a girl has a lot of advantages & disadvantages and I’m going to present them here.

Like we have a lot of advantages, we have disadvantages too, for example, the period, it is very uncomfortable and most of the girls (maybe all) don´t like having the period.

Another disadvantage is that girls, normally, are more complicated than men. We think a lot about things and we have more problems. For example, when I’m with my friends (boys and girls) we start talking about something and all the girls (including me) start discussing about the things we are talking about for a long time, while the boys only listen and they just don´t care.

“TV is a powerful influence on all of us, but particularly young girls who are looking for role models,” Los Angeles-based therapist Dr. Nancy Irwin.  TV can be a very bad influence for girls because they want to be like the actresses or models there. More than 90 percent of girls – 15 to 17 years – want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance, with body weight ranking the highest. And that´s why they start having eating disorders.

Another disadvantage is that girls are an easier target for bullying. A girl is bullied every 7 minutes in the school yard, playground, stairwell, classroom or bathroom, because girls are shorter, more sensible, and is easier to hurt a girl than a boy.

There are a lot of other disadvantages, women can get raped and pregnant. And that way, you could get pregnant at a very young age, when you are not able to take care of a baby, and it´s difficult to overcome it.

We could have a lot more, but being a girl is not that bad, we can have a lot of advantages too. For example, we never have to stand at a urinal and have other girls stare at us like boys do (and normally, we have cleaner bathrooms)  

Another one is that we can have babies when we have a good age and if we want to, and most of the women think that giving birth is beautiful.

Women are known for having a higher tolerance to pain, women give birth… That´s something a man could never do.

Another good reason for the one is better to be a woman is because we have the ability to perform many activities with only one career studied. When we become mothers at the same time we are: psychologists, chefs, drivers, doctors, etc. Like for example, my mom, she didn´t study for being a doctor, but when my brother or me get sick, she knows what medicine she has to give us.

There are many others advantages & disadvantages and sometimes girls want to be boys because is easier. But being a girl is beautiful and I think we can have a lot of advantages.

 

 

 

 

"Being a girl" by Valeria Naranjo C.

Girls aren´t a very uncommon gender, in fact, there're so many girls in the world, about 51.1% of the total population, and all of them are immediately welcomed to a world full of pink, ribbons, dresses and skirts.
Of course, being a girl is more than only that, women are the only humans capable of giving birth, which is, in mothers’ opinion, a miracle full of light. Giving birth ends in raising a child, and this means responsibility. Research proves that, as we mature faster than boys, we are more responsible than them, and we mature faster Dr Marcus Kaiser states that, “Previous studies have shown that the brain does a lot of re-organizing during puberty, there is greater activity during this time, around 10 to 12 you start to see a lot of activity in the brains of girls as this pruning takes place, but it was between 15 to 20 for boys.”
In other situations, girls have a high self esteem that leads us to be happy with ourselves, and this encourages us to take our own time. This is a supporting fact for us to be more organized than boys… In Winter Break, my family went to Guanajuato, where my cousins live. My cousin Manuel loves to draw, and he always has his binder full of drawings with him, but when he showed it to my cousin Andrea and I, we were both astonished by how disorganized it was, so we took it from his hands and organized it in half an hour, to our cousin´s exasperation, but the other day my cousin wrote and told me he was able to find his drawings easily.
But, after a while, things change, women have their own issues, for example, our periods cause us to lose blood when we aren´t going to give birth soon, and that´s hurtful and exhausting. In periods, their hormones go on an “emotional roller coaster,” as 75% women report mood-swings.
In the mid time, most of the times we don´t grow up as much of the guys do, as we mature faster, that gives us early understanding that cannot last forever.  For instance, when I was eight, I was one of the tallest students in the classroom, but now, albeit having been one of them, I´m one of the shortest students after all the boys grew up.
While we have physical disadvantages, we also have psychological ones, by nature we are meant to have a soft temper leads us to have worry and concern by our environment, which leads to some consequences. In some situations, we keep taking it all inside without saying anything and take the whole weight of others on our own, which is harmful to our self-esteem.
Saying they are consequences would be an understatement; discrimination comes with it as we are said to be weak and just an unnecessary element to society. Women need to be prepared to cope with this statements and everything that comes with them.
We can conclude that, although being a female isn´t all pink and flowers, we´re ready to go through each obstacle. Being from this gender will bring more advantages than anything else.

"Advantages/Disadvantages of being a girl" by Natasha H.

A girl’s life is complicated sometimes, but we can also have fun without getting too wild. According to Newcastle University scientists, “girls' brains can begin maturing from the age of 10 while some men have to wait until 20 before the same organizational structures take place.” That is definitely a thumbs up for us girls. About 15% of American girls now begin puberty by age 7, according to a study of 1,239 girls published last year in Pediatrics, and 23% of black girls hit puberty by age 7.

One definite advantage of being a girl is that we can wear pretty much anything, ranging from skirts, to tank tops, to short shorts, while men can wear only certain things. Could you imagine a man in short shorts with hairy legs? Ewwwww.

What’s horrible is that globally 65 million girls are not in school, which will be an almost unsolvable problem in their futures. Just because some schools are prejudice of different nationalities doesn’t mean they can just avoid giving education. I think that girls and boys should be treated equally, it doesn’t matter who matures first, or what nationality they are, or what gender they are, we are all humans, and WE DESERVE EDUCATION.

In January of this year 8.3 % of women were unemployed because some people underestimate us girls as being weak. That is the most stereotypical thing I’ve ever heard in my short 12 years of life. In my opinion I think that girls can be very competitive if they wanted to, which a lot of us do.

Girls have advantages & disadvantages, but it doesn’t mean we are weak in physical or emotional terms. Boys and girls should be treated equally no matter what their gender or nationality.

 

 

"The Ghost Dead Lady" by Carlos Daniel Morales

One dark and scary night, I was chatting with my parents between my kitchen and my dining hall, it was 10:30 p.m. I recall, I looked behind me, there was a glass door that connects my house with my patio.

Suddenly, when I looked at it, I saw a ghost dead lady, she was staring at me with her white, enormous eyes and she had a black, long hair which was falling on the floor, she was wearing a white, shiny dress and she was sitting on a weird chair, it was a kind of a bench, she was looking at me with deadly eyes, as if she wanted to kill me.

When I went upstairs to my bedroom , I couldn’t sleep because I was really scared, so I just tried to close my eyes really hard to try to avoid all those scary things; but I couldn’t, so I opened my eyes and started seeing scary ghosts all around my bed, and hearing sounds everywhere in the room.

When I finally fell aslept at 3:00 a.m. or later, I woke up a lot of times still hearing scary things, everything was quiet, just the sounds of rustling and murmurs, since that happened, sometimes I´ve been hearing scary things and witnessed appearances of scary deadly ghosts.

 

"Live is meant to be lived" by Rodrigo Hernandez

Exactly one year ago it was my grandmother´s birthday. I was arriving to my grannys house when I saw that some doctors were climbing my grandfather into an ambulance. It was a shock moment. Then, we went a little ahead and my sister and I went out of the car an enter home. All of this was in time of minutes. My parents went following the ambulance with 5 more uncles. I stayed with my sister at my granny´s house with 3 uncles and 2 cousins and with my other grandfather. At home I saw that in the kitchen , the food was in the grill and a kinfe in the table. I could see that my grandmother was cutting the vegetables. This happen at 12:30 , I didn´t believe it. I spent all that day at home , waiting for a call.

 

I remember that that day I ate pizza and rice with bananas. That day was like a year for me , the minutes were hours and the hours were like years.

At 4:00 o´clock the phone rang , it was

 my dad, he told me that everything was ok, that my grandpa was hospitalized and that I need to sleep cause they were irriving too late. They arrive at 1 am. I didn,t sleep.

My grandfather was hospitalized for 2 weeks and a half, he was very strong. Unfortunately he died. He died of stroke.

 

It was a hard moment. Because I shared my life with him in a very big way. I remember that when I arrived at my grandmother´s house, I ate and went with my grandfather from 3 to 7 or 8 pm , I spoke with him hours. We use to talk about soccer, watched the Ingles Family and watch classic movies. I played soccer with him too. I remember that we use to go to tha store and buy to packages of “chocolate abuelita” and ate it watching soccer matches or classic movies, it was a magic moment.

 

At his funeral, me and my family remembered too many things, we laugh, we cried, but always together as a family. In his funeral I give to my grandpa a soccer ball autographed by Pelé, it was his idol. I cried a lot. There were grice days with tears. But we need to learn how to live with the past and face the future, cause life depends of that. I know that my grandfather is not in the world, and he can not protect me as my grandfather, but he can protect me as an angel, because I know, he is in the sky watching me, and he will live in our hearts forever.