Essay of Place

Essay of Place

By: Amanda Sik

 

        Most people have a special place they go to or have special meaning in their life. Some

peoples special place consists of a room, or maybe even a town. My special place is a little town

called South Shore South Dakota.

 

        I grew up in this little village that consists of at the most 200 people. Here is where I started my first years of school, experienced my first Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and my very first birthday. Here is also where I made my first friends. This village wasn’t much of anything; it had a grocery store, a small school that had every grade in it, from Kindergarten from 12th grade in this grade at the time there were only 9 students, imagine prom, or homecoming, this past year there were only 4 girls in the senior class!! And in the elementary there were at least 15 people in each classroom with two grades combined.  Then it had a gas station, that was it…can you imagine it?

 

        In South Shore I attended grades Kindergarten through 3rd grade and in the 3rd grade I then moved. I lived in South Shore for about 8 years. Although I was not born here I moved here shortly after.

 

        South Shore still has very special meaning to me even though I do not live there anymore. I experienced a lot of my firsts there, like Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and my first birthday. What is the special place in your life?