About Me and Where I've Been

When I was growing up is a child, things were different then what they are now. I remember being able to go to the store and get some everything for just a dollar. Everything has changed. We've changed presidents several times, gas prices keep going up, and more and more young people are dying.
Where we lived, we didn't have to worry about any violence or anything like that. I was born in Shelby, Mississippi where there was no crime. I lived in shelby until I was five years old and my mother decided that we should move. So we did. We ended up moving to Cleveland, MS where I went to Five different schools. I spent one year at H.M. Nailor Elementary, four years at B.L. Bell Elementary, and one and a half years at the Hayes Cooper Center for Math, Science, and Technology. We had moved to a different part of town so ended up having to go to a different school as well. I was getting to the point where I just wanted to be left in the school that I was in. I had to end up going to Hayes Cooper because I had gotten a perfect score on one of those state tests. If a student was to do that, they would send them to the smart school. I hated that school but at the same time, I liked it to. I hated because it was a school full of smart kids. There is nothing wrong with being around smart kids but it just wasn't for me. I had no friends there and I wasn't trying to make new ones. Reason being is because I stayed across town from everybody. I liked it because we did different things for kids in the lower classes.
For example; when I was in the sixth grade, we put on the show "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego." Each room was a different country and everyone in the class had a different role to play. I would love to do that again. The chances of that happening isn't good at all.
Low and behold we have to move again. This time we moved up north to Elkhart, IN to stay with one of my sisters. Of course I didn't want to be there because I had just gotten use to my new school and had made a few friends. We moved during spring break. I'm thinking that we were just going on vacation but I was wrong. The next school was North Side Middle School. I loved North Side from my first day of class. I was in the seventh grade but I had to take nineth grade classes because they didn't have any classes that I hadn't taken. Lunch was the boom to because it you could buy pizza puffs, burritos, nachos, or just about anything that you wanted. After you eat you could go to the gym or outside. It was totally up to you. We had volleyball, basketball, football, pool, table hockey, and tennis inside and out. I don't know about anybody else but I was in heaven. But just as I get comfortable, we are moving back down south. I almost didn't make the trip on two different occasions. The first one took place during the summer time when there were gang wars. The Gangsta's (G.D.) verses the Vice Lords (V.L.). My family is mostly G's and I was about two seconds from being shot in the head with a thirty-eight. The only thing that saved me was somebody calling my name. I turned around in the nick of time.
The second time was the day before we moving back down south. The girls at my school tried to tie me to a desk so that I wont leave them.