Monday, September 8, 2008

My House and Neighborhood

My house has been crazy for the past couple of weeks. My liitle sister the twin has been coming over every weekend for the past three weeks. My grandparents haver been out to woodhaven for the past four weekends to get some peace and quiet.My sister Nisha works from 12:30 to 9:00 everyday. So when I get home I have to do my homework, clean, and take a nap before I or someone else goes to pick Ayriel up from school. My niece and her mother are usualyy gone somwhere until like 5 0r 6. But since my sister is now in school her and my niece take trips to the Lombard library. When my grandparents are in town my grandfather is always running doing for everybody and some times he does not get time to rest. My grandmother on the other hand is always running with me, Niya, and Ayriel because she wants to spend time with each of us personally. The lights in my house are very bright during all times of the day no matter where you are or what you are doing. The noises of the different televisions fill the air as well as the screams of all the children along with the pitty patter fo their feet as the walk and run the hall and stairs. My neighbirhood has come through many changes and all of them are good. Even thought we have many abandoned houses on my block it has come up from a neighborhood full of drug dealing to a neighborhood full of change. The adults have pushed for this so that all of the children would not have to see crackhead, and young black man making drug sells to the majority. The death toll in my neighbrhood raises and drops just as the clock ticks. All of the changes have actually made my neighborhood better than it was before. There are still drug dealers but there are very few of them because they are changing what they do so that they will have a fututre. I enjoy all of the change that happens in my neighborhood because I know that the changes that are happening are happening for the better. No I do not wish that it was different because my neighborhood made me the way that I am today.

1 comment:

lindsey said...

I didn't know your sister was coming over so often - that's great!

Dede - THIS ENTIRE PIECE OF WRITING WAS COMPLETE SENTENCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm so happy for you! Keep doing it.