Child Stressors

The stressor that I can identify with is natural disaster. When I was a child, I remember going through hurricane Hugo. It was the worst hurricane that went through Puerto Rico. It happened September 18, 1989, I was 5 years old but remember it really clearly. We lived in a wooden house, and my parents decided to stay at my aunt’s house (which was a block house). Around that time my uncles were building a second story and left concrete blocks on the roof. The wind was so powerful that it was knocking over the blocks. I can still hear the wind, and I still remember (for the small time the adults allowed us to see out the window) how everything was flying around.

The country and region that I chose to research about is Tujuana, Mexico. This is one of the worst parts of Mexico to live in, especially for a child. I found an article from 2008 were it talks about a few children that walked through a house that had many people brutally murdered.

There were daylight shoot-outs between gangs using automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in downtown streets and shopping malls. Kidnapping for ransom got so bad that many wealthy and middle-class families fled to the United States.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-tijuana25-2008oct25,0,2076621.story

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_finnegan#ixzz1OJxmKJ3U