Mayfair Academy

When I was a student at Howalton Day School and lived on 79th street there was this dance school called Mayfair Academy the jewel of the south side of Chicago! Annette and Karen took ballet and tap dancing lessons there and the first lady Michelle Obama took dance lesson there! This famous dance academy taught a many of famous people! Mayfair Academy was beloved by a many of students all over Chicago! I didn't take dance lessons there, but took them some place else! I took ballet lessons at Avalon Community church and at gym at school! Mayfair Dance Academy is closed now due to low student enrollment! Hopefully it will reopen soon!

National Grocery Store

When I was a girl growing up I live on 79th street and Kimbark! I was also a student at Howalton Day School! There was a grocery store in the neighborhood called National grocery store! I remember this because me and my mother shopped there a lot! When we shopped at National it was a nice store! I would ride in the shopping cart while mom did her grocery shopping! Back in the day the neighborhood was the bomb! There was also Red Carpet liquor store, a neighborhood dry cleaners, and Sears and Robucks! National grocery store close it doors when some of the people in the neighborhood that the store didn't sell any soul food! The building changed from National into a welfare office, walgreens, and finally a family dollar store!

Nigerian Princess for a day

When I was going to Howalton Day School I took African studies and my teacher name was Mister Eco! He would visit my house and my parents bearing gifts! So one day he dressed me up in his native cloth from Nigeria! I looked like a Nigerian princess! There was good events in that school. When he dressed me up it was during an event in the school! I felt very special! Mister Eco was the African studies teacher from kindergarden to eighth grades!

Block Party: 1974-1977

When I was going to Howalton Day School and lived in a house on 79th and Kimbark the whole block had block parties! I remember this because I was riding my big wheels when I was a little girl! Me and my neighbors had a lot of fun in those days! The years the block had those parties was from the time that I was in the second to firth grades! The fun ended when people from other blocks started out running the neighborhood kids and that what ended the block parties! While the block parties was going on there was food and fun!

Avalon Community Church: Horse Riding Trip

When I was a student at Howalton Day School and a member of Avalon community church we went to the stables of the suburbs outside Chicago to go horse back riding! There was me, Brandon,Karen,Kimberly and Annette. The horse back riding trip was fun for the first time that I rode on horse back and I was a natural! It was the most fun I had during my childhood! It was a time that I will never forget as a member of that church!

Preschool and Kindergarden

When I was three or four years old the neighborhood where I grew up founded a preschool in the house where I was raised up! Karen, Joyce, Brandon , Ann and Annette was a part of it! They help out because they was already enrolled in Howalton Day School! I was enrolled in that preschool when the whole block was a real village as it goes the proverb It  takes a village to raise a child! Everybody knew each other and cared for each others children! It was one the wonderful times in my childhood!

My spectacular dive

When I was a upper classman in Howalton Day School I and my classmates went to the Y.M.C.A for swimming and gym classes! In swim class I and my classmates had to dive in the deep end of the swimming pool. When it was my turn I got on the diving stand and did a spectacular swan dive and everyone clapped for me. That was the best swimming class of my life ! I bet my classmates are talking about it till this day!