NARRATIVE

I thought remenising about my neighborhood that I stayed in, in the fourth grade would be impossible. I didn't think that I would remember anything, but it all started to come to me. The neighborhood I lived in was called Roselawn. Roselawn was a good, clean, quiet neighborhood, well the side that I lived on was. It had is bad side too. I lived on 7541 Edgemont Road. There was not a whole lot of kids to play with in our neighborhood, but tbat was never a problem. Now that I am thinking about it, I miss living in Roselawn. I had a lot of good and bad times there. Many memories were made there. Based on the map that I drew, you can see that our house was yellow and brown. We had a "ranch" style house. Our house sat on top of a hill. We had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. I t was a good size for a family of five. We also had an attic, which we made into an additional bedroom. We lived comfortably. I lived with my dad and his wife and her two kids. My step sisters name was Dakari and My step brothers name was Elijah. Dakari is older then I am and Elijah is younger. Dakari and I shared a room for a while. The walls were painted a pinkish color- I hated that color. We had a wooden bunk- bed set. We had a closet with her clothes on one side and my clothes on the other. It was cool for a while, that is until we started getting to old for each other. We had personalities that clashed so she moved her room upstairs to the attic. That was fine with me. So when she left, the walls were still painted that horrible pinkish color but I no longer had to sleep in a bunk bed and I got a queen sized bed. I also had more closet space, I was in need of that. Sooner or later I had more space that I would handle. I hated to clean my room. One day I came up with the conclusion that if I stayed in my room more often, instead of always leaving and my mess would be all over the place, I would just stay in my room. I started that bad habit in fourth grade. Before I started to stay in my room all of the time, I used to always go outside tp play. We mostly played in the backyard. If not in the backyard, then we were riding our bikes around the corner. I can remember getting done with my homework and going straight out the back door and to the garage to go get my bike. Elijah always wanted to race me to see who could get back around the corner faster. I got to admit that he won about once or twice, but not often. It was so cool that we lived in a good neighborhood so we could have the freedom to go outside and enjoy ourselves. When I was in fourth grade, I was more of a "tom-boy". I did a lot of things the typical girl probably would noyt rather do. I stopped playing with dolls when Dakari stop playing with them because it was not fun plaing alone. So when Elijah wanted me to go outside and play basketball, race, play baseball or catch, I would do so. It became really fun and entertaining. That's when I got my competitve streak. In my map, you can clearly see that the backyard is where I had the most fun. I didn't really explore my neighborhood because we had a huge yard. We had a swingset, a patio,and a basketball hoop. We all had a big imagintion and we would be outside for hours just playing, playing, and more playing. I remember us imagining that we were some secret spys so we would crawl around and move secretly around the yard like we were actually looking for someone. It was weird now that I think about it though. One time we created our own meal outside. It was supposed tu be spaghetti, it was made out of Mother Earth basiccally. We one of those red RadioWagon's that almost every kid had. We fillied it with dirt, grass, leaves, rocks, acorns from our next door neighbors tree, and anything we could find. We spent a long time back there making our spaghetti, we wanted it to ba as good as my daddy's spaghetti. I didn't taste it- THANK GOD! Me, personally, I spent a lot of time on our patio. The patio was attached to our garage. It was made out of brown wood and had two brown wooden benches on it and flowerbeds filled with dead flowers around it. I had a dream of being a entertainer since I was like in second grade but I was kind of shy. I would go out on the patio by myself most of the time with my little pink radio and plug it in. I would usually sing to my Destiny's Child cd, Ciara, or Beyonce'. I would take a broom and pretend that that was my microphone and start singing. I don't know what gave me the impression that I could sing but I was horrible. The only person I would sing with was my cousin Alyssa. We used to make up dances and try to sing along to the song and act like we were performing. Just thinking about it makes me laugh a little bit because we probably looked silly singing into brooms and dancing off beat. That's a good memory, I'll probably never forget that. Something else I remember about Roselawn is my neighbors. One lady that lived on the right side of us was really nice. Her name was Ms. Catherine. She had had three wolf-dogs, they were so cute. She used to let Dakari, Elijah, and I play with them. Our neighbor on the side was the opposite of Ms. Catherine. I never knew her name but I wondered a lot about her. Her house was a pretty green color with white trimming. She had pretty flowers around her front porch and her backyard had a small garden, and a tree. Her tree had birdfeeders hanging from it. She used to come outside everyday so feed the birds. One day we asked her if she could throw one of our balls back over the fence and she threw bird food at us. From that point I thought she was a evil, bitter, old lady. Come to find out, she was going blind and she could not hear out of one ear. She probably thought that we were picking with her, we didn't mean any harm. After finding that, we felt bad for judging her before even knowing her. I actually started to speak and wave when I saw her. She wasn't so evil afterall. I had fun with this assignment. It was a pleasure to think about my old neighborhood. It brought back a few laughs. I would go back in the hands of time and visit my past. I lived in many places, Roselawn was one of the best places that I lived. I was able to be a kid and have a good, playful childhood. Best of all I had many memories there that I can one day share with my family.