Northsider

I was born on the South Side of Chicago. My Mother and I moved up North at a young age. All of my family remained on the South Side, before they eventually moved out to the suburbs or different cities. While they were there, I frequently visited them, or took trips back and forth on the EL and bus. The "scenery" and people of the South Side was second nature me, as was the North Side. One day while I was living up North, we were riding the school bus on a field trip to the South side. We were on 79th, and we passed a block with vacant lots, strewn with trash, a common sight on the South Side. The White students who sat behind me on the bus remarked about how bad it looked. It dawned on me that they were right.