While my family gathered around the Thanksgiving dinner table, I realized how grateful and thankful I truly am for each and every person that is in my life. From family to friends, it is important to realize how lucky you are to have people in your life that love you and care for you greatly. That being said, I decided to show my cousins who are not from New York around my town. I live in Garden City, New York. It quite a big town filled with many schools, a college, and one big mall. While driving around town I decided to show my cousins that schools that I had attended while growing up in Garden City. There are many schools in my town since Garden City is so big. There are different schools based on your home location in town. Basically, whatever school is closer to your house that is the school you attend. When it comes to the middle school and the high school, that is when the whole town emerges into one school, which is why these schools are massive.
We started our drive-by Homestead school. Homestead is a school for kindergarten to first grade. I moved to Garden City when I was six, so I was only able to go to this school for first grade.
Following after that, we drove over to my elementary school known as, Stratford. This school used to be Garden City’s High School way back, but now it is an elementary school for children in second grade to fifth grade. This school is huge and the backyard where we would have recess in enormous.
Unfortunately, we did not get a chance to see my middle school since it was out of the way for us, but we did get to see my high school. The architecture of my high school is wide but very flat as well. Our football field has recently gotten redone and is known as Warren King Field. On this field is where field hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse are played. I was a member of Garden City Varsity Kick line where we performed during halftime at football games on Warren King Field. On this field, I also sang the national anthem several times for various games.
It was great getting to show my cousins where I went to school, which brought back a lot of memories. Check out the video above to see our little trip around town!
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