Supposed to be Researching - BUT!

     While doing a search, I came upon the most interesting site, ZuZu http://www.zuzu.org/contents.html  There is a section titled "My Neighborhood" and the the blurbs appear to be written by children. They tell us they feel about their towns.  

 

Here is what youngster wrote, "My name is David Vu. I live in Brooklyn Center MN. My neighborhood is alright. There is going to be alot of hmong people coming to live here.So I'm glad. So my neigborhood is alright."  At first glance I thought the word  "hmong" was a typo, but decided to check it out, in doing so I came across the most interesting information about a group of people had have heard of.  http://www.jefflindsay.com/Hmong_tragedy.html    

See an online Hmong newspaper http://www.hmongtimes.com/  

Learn to speak Hmong http://members.aol.com/nyablaj/hmong.html

 

Here is what another kid says about her town--ya gotta love a kid who is not afraid to speak her mind, "I live in Stoughton, Ma. A place where NOTHING happpens, it is boring I have to go to Brockton or Boston just to have some excitment with my friends! We have a small little movie theater that was a buck a night! But then of course it was bought out by another company! Now it is five bucks a night! Now I am broke!!

Just recently we got the 911 number for the police & ambulance. Before we had two different numbers for the police & ambulance, 344-2424 & 344-3131! Was that dumb or is it me? We have no malls, no GOOD! shopping stores! What is wrong with this town! Another crappy thing was that they are destroying all of the land on my street by making cheap new houses out of particle board! If you wanna move to Stoughton do NOT buy a knew house! It would be a major mistake!!

During the summer there were three incidents that actually put us on the news (which was a first)! It started at the beginning, Two stores were robbed Town spa (a really great place to get pizza), don't ask me why the robbed a pizza joint! And Christy's. Yes the one that has a gas station outside. Another thing that happened was there was a double murder two Stoughton men were killed by a psycho who lives in Sharon. Just over money !! Stupid Huh. The third thing was a 16 yr old boy was hit by a car. He ran out in front of it, too bad the car couldn't brake in time. Sorry I can't tell you anymore since it just happened at 12:00 midnight last night. I don't even know if he lived or not!

Well as you can see I really HATE this town. If anyone knows a good place in the U.S. to live E-mail me PLEASE! I gotta get outta here!! Oh yea here most of the people listen to rap!!!! YUCK!! LOSERS.

Words by an 8 year old, paintings by a 5th grader. Such talent. http://www.zuzu.org/sara.html

I must go back to the really sweet site later. Anxious to read what other children think of their neighborhoods. http://www.zuzu.org/neig.html  Who knows, I may learn something else ;-)