Mexico

MY IDEAL CITY

My city is pretty and its downtown has been known as a world heritage site since it has big quarry buildings and beautiful engravings and monuments which has given it the name the city of the pink quarry and everything we have that is beautiful makes me sad and makes me feel ugly because there is no awareness of all that is happening in the city, the scratches and graffiti in the city centre and on houses, the potholes in the streets, the lack of water, of pure air and the dumping of rubbish out in the open, and how people are cutting down trees and the forests are disappearing, which they have taught me they are a reserve so that there will always be rain and pure air.

What will happen if people don't become aware? How will we end up?

What sadness and what fright without rain, without water, without pure air, without food because the city is growing and there's nowhere to plant seeds.

But the good thing is that in the city of my dreams they have an SOS program that offers a way to separate waste into sanitary, organic and separate, which is most important in the whole universe since it helps us to not produce so much rubbish and to re-use waste.

In my ideal city there wouldn't be people graffitying houses, buildings and monuments.

I also wish there wasn't so much pollution of the soil, air and water. That people would be aware and not use carts so much, and that they would also make them repair them.

In my ideal city, water wouldn't go away, it would reach everyone and for all necessities.

I wish there were more parks and gardens, that it didn't smell so bad like sewage or paper or other factories that harm us and contaminate us.

In my ideal city instead of trash and glass in the street there is more trees and flowers, houses of happy colours like pink, a clean sky with a big rainbow, water in the fountains that's always clean, respect trees and forests are respected inside and outside the city so that there is always clean and pure air, rain so that the city has water.

My ideal city is clean, happy, calm, prosperous and peaceful. People are friendly, respect each other and we kids are happy!

Karla Gabriela Martínez Luján