Growing up in Hempstead, New York was like living at any fun park you ever attended. It was like a fun park because it was just so many things you could do or see. One night you might just besitting around on the corner and before you know it you got a whole army outside having fun. Some nights they might crowd around the gas station off of Baldwin Road to watch different people from all over racing, showing off on motor bikes, or even just doing things you might not ever think to do. Living in New York, you see a lot of bike gangs hitting the L.I.E. doing tricks like standing up on the bike right in the middle of the gas tank just riding or you might see 50 to 100 bikes from 4-wheelers to dirt bikes just eating the road up at once. One thing I will never forget is when Dipset came to Hempstead to shoot a video with an artist named Half from Hempstead. It was crazy, they close down the whole LI that day. We had fun. Blood Town is a place in South Carolina, found in a little town called Elliott. Now Blood Town is a lot different from Hempstead. In Blood Town it not many places you can go without a car to get around in but if you do then you good. In this town the people are real friendly. One thing I love about this town is that everyone sticks together no matter what happens. The way many people enjoy themselves is by getting together and going to the town house called the barn. Many people might hear the word barn and think that its not popping but believe me they gets it popping in there. The barn is opened to anyone who can behave themselves but mostly opened for the local. In the barn they have an open bar until you want to stop, many pool tables, card games tables, and anymore. In Blood Town the roads are very long and when walking you have this feeling of you are not moving at all. If it was one word that I could call this town is cool. These are the two towns that I love to the end.
I’m comparing my mother’s house and my first apartment home just getting out of high school. Mom’s house is in Columbus Georgia, the neighborhood is called Dawson Estate. It was pretty nice home, I can remember when my mom & pop’s first purchase it, was all old and beat up and plus it had trees everywhere but we had a place to leave. Right way mom’s started fixing the house up it took a couple years the trees are gone they added on to the house, it just was a brand new house. The neighborhood well that’s another story it was quiet on are street but they others where not. Neighbor’s were all young around my age we had lots of party’s and fights plus growing gangs in the early 90’s . Dawson Estate was one way in and one way out, it was very difficult for people to get around. Now compare to my first apartment in Portsmouth Virginia called twin lakes that had no dam lake was grimy. This was my struggle years I could remember using my 81 Chevy coupe for a refreigator to keep my food cold in the winter, until I brought me one. I also had rats or maybe mice I don’t know either one running around like the where paying bills, I’m hot but vision of getting was a must in my mind but I did have a roof over my head. There where gun shooting almost every night, there was always something going on, w twin lakes is nothing but a ghost town that has been redeveloped. One Love!
First I will start of with New Jersey. Well for one, I love New Jersey with a passion. There is a big difference from living in New Jersey than in Virginia. In New Jersey, whatever the season is that’s what the weather is. If it’s the winter and fall it’s mainly cold. In the spring and the summer it’s warm and hot; but in Virginia the weather changes too much. In the winter and the fall its suppose to be cold or a little windy, but one day its cold and then the next day it’s hot. The way the weather changes up gets me sick. My nose be running I be coughing sneezing. When I’m in New Jersey, I rarely ever get sick. But when I’m in Virginia, I get sick more than the usual, and that’s not cool. In New Jersey, everything is close together. That makes it better for people to save gas, because you don’t have to drive everywhere, you don’t need to drive everywhere. The only time you need to drive anywhere is if you are going across town or if you are going to another city. In Virginia everything is so complicated. You need to drive to get everywhere or expect to be walking a long time. Starting at 30 minutes and up. In Virginia everything is so far apart. Now, living in New Jersey or just living up-north in general is bad. The environment is bad gunshots nonstop, drug all the time, killing for no reason just crazy stuff. I mean these kinds of thing are everywhere, but in Virginia, its good compared to New Jersey. They have very low school standards for you. They don’t expect a lot of people to graduate. They expect you to be dead or in jail. So if you graduated high school in New Jersey it’s a great big accomplishment. Virginia is totally different. They enforce so many things in school like no cell phone, no hats, no tank tops. There are so many things that are different. In conclusion I enjoy living in New Jersey more than I enjoy living in Virginia.
I have only Reside in two different places in my life, and there are major differences in between them. The place where I grew up is obviously the first place I resided, and that place was with my family in Montezuma Ohio. The second place I have lived would be where I presently am, Norfolk Virginia. Montezuma Ohio is a calm little village that was only 4 blocks in total, so nothing really bad ever happened there. Everyone knew everyone, and we all got along. As for Norfolk Virginia, It is no where near calm or small. It is a huge city that seems to never rest. There is so many people, that you cant know everyone and it is also hard to get along with a lot of the people here. As for nothing ever happening in Montezuma, I wish I could say the same for Norfolk. Here I am always hearing sirens at all hours or the day and I always hear of someone getting shot or somewhere getting robbed, quite frankly I am always scared here. Traffic, is defiantly a big difference in between the two places In Montezuma there are only two lanes one going one way and the other well going the other way. The roads are like a ghost town compared to the roads of Norfolk. I have never seen so many lanes of traffic before I came to Norfolk and a lot of the times it is hard to get anywhere because the roads are so busy. When I first moved to Norfolk I would drive anywhere for about a week I was to scared to. It took me almost 8 months to get used to the traffic here and I am still afraid to go out in it some times. As you can see theare major differences between both places where I have resided. But the hardest thing I have had to cope with is fear. The fear of driving in the traffic and the fear of being around so many people in a big place.
I grew up in a small country town named Bennettsville, South Carolina. The population there was about 10,000 people. This place shaped me into the man that I am today. It was not much to do as I grew up, but fish and work in the field. If I wanted to go shopping at the mall, that was one hour drive south to another town name Florence.
Every summer when I visited my grandparent’s house, my sister and I had to work out in the field. We would pick peas, strawberries, watermelons, and squash. Also the people were so friendly and everyone knew each other. It wasn’t anything for the kids to play outside with adult supervision. As long you didn’t leave the block that you lived on. When I moved to Norfolk, Virginia, it was a new experience for me. First of all I never saw so many cars on the road at one time. It was like a mad house, people jumping in and out of lane with out turn signals. Also, this place had ten times the people in my home town. Everywhere I went it was crowded and the people were rude. As for shopping I loved this place; knowing that I do not have to travel an hour to the mall, was my dream place to live. If I had to choose a place that I would like to be it would be back in my hometown of Bennettsvile.
Before coming to live in Va. I live in Miami, Fla. They are two totally different places. Living in Miami we didn’t live in the best of neighborhoods. Every day and night it was a lot have activated .The street always a live with good and bad things. I had getting use to felling asleep to gut shoots and sirens. The ghettos out there was all cover in trash, bums hang out every were you look. The pace of life is fast you have to move quickly to keep up or get ran over. Moving to Va. was a big adjustment for me. The fast moving became a crawl. As driving around the seven cities I can see the so call projects, they were the cleanse I have ever seen. Getting use to a city that acullty shut down was new to me. I had to get use to going to sleep with the sounds of insect, instead of gun shoots and sirens I cant sleep for months.
My name is Deanna Burke. I was born in San Francisco, CA. I lived in California up until I was about 10 years old. My father had gotten a new job in Pennsylvania and we had to move. My dad, brother, grandma and me loaded up the cars and were off to our new life. We moved to a little town named Saxton. It was so small that it only had one stop light. I spent my elementary school years there. When it was time for me to take the next step and attend high school my father told me that we had to move again for a new job that he was taking. We packed up the cars again and moved to a slightly bigger town named Greencastle. I attended middle school there and then continued on to high school. Three years went by and it was coming close to my senior year and I had no idea what I was going to do after school. I bounced back and forth between college and other options that I had. My mother’s family had a strong military background and she was pushing me in that direction. After finding out that my brother had signed up to go into the navy I decided I would look into it. I went to the recruiting station to talk to them about my options and make my decision. It only took one time talking to the recruiter to sign up. I then started my exciting journey in the military. I was in the delayed entry program until Aug of 2004 that’s when I left for boot camp. When I arrived in Chicago I was scared to death. I had never dealt with anything like this ever in my life. As the months went by I was kept very busy with training so it would keep us missing home but sometimes it didn’t work. Finally I graduated and I was on my way to Mississippi for more job training. When I completed my training there I was on my way to Virginia to the USS Winston S. Churchill. I was excited and nervous at the same time I had never been on a ship before or away from home. I was on there for seven months and it was a different experience. I saw lots of things I never saw before like dolphins and the feeling that I got when I looked of the ship and it was open water was somewhat calming. After the seven months I was then again moved to a new duty station on shore. I have been working there for about 2 years now. I attended Tidewater Community College for 3 semesters but stopped because I was pursuing a major I had no interest in. My time in the military is ending soon and I have enrolled at ECPI for criminal justice to further my education and prepare myself for my future.
My future seems bright. I want to get my associates degree and continue on to get my bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. I want to get a job working in investigation of criminal profiling. I have always been interested in. I don’t plan on staying here in Virginia I would like to go back to Pennsylvania but I will go wherever jobs are going to be. I hope to have a family so I can share my success with.
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Hempstead 2 Blood Town
Growing up in Hempstead, New York was like living at any fun park you ever attended. It was like a fun park because it was just so many things you could do or see. One night you might just besitting around on the corner and before you know it you got a whole army outside having fun. Some nights they might crowd around the gas
station off of Baldwin Road to watch different people from all over racing, showing off on motor bikes, or even just doing things you might not ever think to do. Living in New York, you see a lot of bike gangs hitting the L.I.E. doing tricks like standing up on the bike right in the middle of the gas tank just riding or you might see 50 to 100 bikes from
4-wheelers to dirt bikes just eating the road up at once. One thing I will never forget is when Dipset came to Hempstead to shoot a video with an artist named Half from Hempstead. It was crazy, they close down the whole LI that day. We had fun. Blood Town is a place in South Carolina, found in a little town called Elliott. Now Blood Town is a lot different from Hempstead. In Blood Town it not many places you can go without a car to get around in but if you do then you good. In this town the people are real friendly. One thing I love about this town is that everyone sticks together no matter what happens. The way many people enjoy themselves is by getting together and going to the town house called the barn. Many people might hear the word barn and think that its not popping but believe me they gets it popping in there. The barn is opened to anyone who can behave themselves but mostly opened for the local. In the barn they have an open bar until you want to stop, many pool tables, card games tables, and anymore. In Blood Town the roads are very long and when walking you have this feeling of you are not moving at all. If it was one word that I could call this town is cool. These are the two towns that I love to the end.
Compare
I’m comparing my mother’s house and my first apartment home just getting out of high school.
Mom’s house is in Columbus Georgia, the neighborhood is called Dawson Estate. It was pretty nice
home, I can remember when my mom & pop’s first purchase it, was all old and beat up and plus it
had trees everywhere but we had a place to leave. Right way mom’s started fixing the house up it took a couple years the trees are gone they added on to the house, it just was a brand new house. The neighborhood well that’s another story it was quiet on are street but they others where not. Neighbor’s were all young around my age we had lots of party’s and fights plus growing gangs in the early 90’s . Dawson Estate was one way in and one way out, it was very difficult for people to get around. Now compare to my first apartment in Portsmouth Virginia called twin lakes that had no dam lake was grimy. This was my struggle years I could remember using my 81 Chevy coupe for a refreigator to keep my food cold in the winter, until I brought me one. I also had rats or maybe mice I don’t know either one running around like the where paying bills, I’m hot but vision of getting was a must in my mind but I did have a roof over my head. There where gun shooting almost every night, there was always something going on, w twin lakes is nothing but a ghost town that has been redeveloped. One Love!
New jersey VS Virginia
First I will start of with New Jersey. Well for one, I love New Jersey with a passion. There is a big difference from living in New Jersey than in Virginia. In New Jersey, whatever the season is that’s what the weather is. If it’s the winter and fall it’s mainly cold. In the spring and the summer it’s warm and hot; but in Virginia the weather changes too much. In the winter and the fall its suppose to be cold or a little windy, but one day its cold and then the next day it’s hot. The way the weather changes up gets me sick. My nose be running I be coughing sneezing. When I’m in New Jersey, I rarely ever get sick. But when I’m in Virginia, I get sick more than the usual, and that’s not cool. In New Jersey, everything is close together. That makes it better for people to save gas, because you don’t have to drive everywhere, you don’t need to drive everywhere. The only time you need to drive anywhere is if you are going across town or if you are going to another city. In Virginia everything is so complicated. You need to drive to get everywhere or expect to be walking a long time. Starting at 30 minutes and up. In Virginia everything is so far apart. Now, living in New Jersey or just living up-north in general is bad. The environment is bad gunshots nonstop, drug all the time, killing for no reason just crazy stuff. I mean these kinds of thing are everywhere, but in Virginia, its good compared to New Jersey. They have very low school standards for you. They don’t expect a lot of people to graduate. They expect you to be dead or in jail. So if you graduated high school in New Jersey it’s a great big accomplishment. Virginia is totally different. They enforce so many things in school like no cell phone, no hats, no tank tops. There are so many things that are different. In conclusion I enjoy living in New Jersey more than I enjoy living in Virginia.
Two Different Places Where Have Resided
I have only Reside in two different places in my life, and there are major differences in between them. The place where I grew up is obviously the first place I resided, and that place was with my family in Montezuma Ohio. The second place I have lived would be where I presently am, Norfolk Virginia.
Montezuma Ohio is a calm little village that was only 4 blocks in total, so nothing really bad ever happened there. Everyone knew everyone, and we all got along. As for Norfolk Virginia, It is no where near calm or small. It is a huge city that seems to never rest. There is so many people, that you cant know everyone and it is also hard to get along with a lot of the people here. As for nothing ever happening in Montezuma, I wish I could say the same for Norfolk. Here I am always hearing sirens at all hours or the day and I always hear of someone getting shot or somewhere getting robbed, quite frankly I am always scared here. Traffic, is defiantly a big difference in between the two places In Montezuma there are only two lanes one going one way and the other well going the other way. The roads are like a ghost town compared to the roads of Norfolk. I have never seen so many lanes of traffic before I came to Norfolk and a lot of the times it is hard to get anywhere because the roads are so busy. When I first moved to Norfolk I would drive anywhere for about a week I was to scared to. It took me almost 8 months to get used to the traffic here and I am still afraid to go out in it some times.
As you can see theare major differences between both places where I have resided. But the hardest thing I have had to cope with is fear. The fear of driving in the traffic and the fear of being around so many people in a big place.
Where I Want to Be
I grew up in a small country town named Bennettsville, South Carolina. The population there was about 10,000 people. This place shaped me into the man that I am today. It was not much to do as I grew up, but fish and work in the field. If I wanted to go shopping at the mall, that was one hour drive south to another town name Florence.
Every summer when I visited my grandparent’s house, my sister and I had to work out in the field. We would pick peas, strawberries, watermelons, and squash. Also the people were so friendly and everyone knew each other. It wasn’t anything for the kids to play outside with adult supervision. As long you didn’t leave the block that you lived on.
When I moved to Norfolk, Virginia, it was a new experience for me. First of all I never saw so many cars on the road at one time. It was like a mad house, people jumping in and out of lane with out turn signals. Also, this place had ten times the people in my home town. Everywhere I went it was crowded and the people were rude. As for shopping I loved this place; knowing that I do not have to travel an hour to the mall, was my dream place to live. If I had to choose a place that I would like to be it would be back in my hometown of Bennettsvile.
Before coming to live in Va. I live in Miami, Fla. They are two totally different places.
Living in Miami we didn’t live in the best of neighborhoods. Every day and night it was a lot have activated .The street always a live with good and bad things. I had getting use to felling asleep to gut shoots and sirens. The ghettos out there was all cover in trash, bums hang out every were you look. The pace of life is fast you have to move quickly to keep up or get ran over.
Moving to Va. was a big adjustment for me. The fast moving became a crawl. As driving around the seven cities I can see the so call projects, they were the cleanse I have ever seen. Getting use to a city that acullty shut down was new to me. I had to get use to going to sleep with the sounds of insect, instead of gun shoots and sirens I cant sleep for months.
About Me
My name is Deanna Burke. I was born in San Francisco, CA. I lived in California up until I was about 10 years old. My father had gotten a new job in Pennsylvania and we had to move. My dad, brother, grandma and me loaded up the cars and were off to our new life. We moved to a little town named Saxton. It was so small that it only had one stop light. I spent my elementary school years there. When it was time for me to take the next step and attend high school my father told me that we had to move again for a new job that he was taking. We packed up the cars again and moved to a slightly bigger town named Greencastle. I attended middle school there and then continued on to high school. Three years went by and it was coming close to my senior year and I had no idea what I was going to do after school. I bounced back and forth between college and other options that I had. My mother’s family had a strong military background and she was pushing me in that direction. After finding out that my brother had signed up to go into the navy I decided I would look into it. I went to the recruiting station to talk to them about my options and make my decision. It only took one time talking to the recruiter to sign up. I then started my exciting journey in the military. I was in the delayed entry program until Aug of 2004 that’s when I left for boot camp. When I arrived in Chicago I was scared to death. I had never dealt with anything like this ever in my life. As the months went by I was kept very busy with training so it would keep us missing home but sometimes it didn’t work. Finally I graduated and I was on my way to Mississippi for more job training. When I completed my training there I was on my way to Virginia to the USS Winston S. Churchill. I was excited and nervous at the same time I had never been on a ship before or away from home. I was on there for seven months and it was a different experience. I saw lots of things I never saw before like dolphins and the feeling that I got when I looked of the ship and it was open water was somewhat calming. After the seven months I was then again moved to a new duty station on shore. I have been working there for about 2 years now. I attended Tidewater Community College for 3 semesters but stopped because I was pursuing a major I had no interest in. My time in the military is ending soon and I have enrolled at ECPI for criminal justice to further my education and prepare myself for my future.
My future seems bright. I want to get my associates degree and continue on to get my bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. I want to get a job working in investigation of criminal profiling. I have always been interested in. I don’t plan on staying here in Virginia I would like to go back to Pennsylvania but I will go wherever jobs are going to be. I hope to have a family so I can share my success with.
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