In my lifetime / My neighborhood

In my life time...I would like to report on and write about teenagers living in the computer age. I would like to know their views on having grown up with the internet, cell phone, PDA, laptops, and electronic games etc... It would be interesting to know their opinion about not having the advantages of the computer age.

As I enter my neighborhood, the street is silent. Four large black dogs patrol the corner of my street. The city street light that the neighborhood fought to have installed, shines over my driveway. My cream colored poodle (My Charlie) is howling for me to let him out of his chamber. Pretty Lucky, a rescue cat, eagerly awaits my appearance. All is quiet in my world.

When things settle down in the house and most of my assignments are complete and a good night call is made to my granddaughter, I slip away to visited my neighbor and best friend. We discuss the latest neighborhood news. Whether it is accounts of the high school children down the street or the elementary schools under construction, the news is delivered.

We are proud of the on-going construction of our Adams Elementary. Adams’s new playground and breeze ways are inviting. The interior of the building houses much-need up-to-date computer facilities. The neighborhood was in need of a new and improved elementary. Within the Harlandale District, two other elementary have been newly constructed on the same property as the previous elementary.