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By: Janhson Merida

I'm from where the smell is good
But there's too much people around.
So it is noisy.

I am from the United States.
I am American.

My neighborhood was very very very good.

And it was fun.

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By Isaiah Gabriel Campos

I am from Chula Vista, California

I live with my 3 brothers,
2 sisters and my mom
and step father.

We love it here.

It reminds us of home.

All of the schools are really close to our home.

My grandpa fought in the Vietnam war.
He had barely made it back to us.
He is one of our most successful ones.

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By: Leslie Medina

Hey am Leslie and I gotta tell you something...

You think you know me,
But I have known many like you before.
Always feeling correct in your assumptions.
You assume wrongly.

Take away your misguided assumptions.
Leave me alone and do not try,
To make me fit into your view of me.
You do not see me.
You see what I want you to see.

In the process,
my dreams and aspirations
are often mistaken for ambition,
Thought of as a desire for fame and fortune as a measure of my success in life.
Wrong thinking again,
My success comes from the doing,
Not the material things by which society measures success.

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By: Diana Garcia M.

I am from San Diego
and I live close to the school.

My school is Castle Park Middle.

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By: Justin Tongol

Where I'm from
I'm am from San Diego, California from Chula Vista.
I am from the Greenlands of Chula Vista.
(a Windy and cloudy place)
It was peaceful and quiet,
Kids rarely come out side everyday.)

I am from the long windy grass
That flows like ocean waves.

I am from deserted roads and
alley ways
That people
Rarely visit
I am from the area of
Graffiti and abandoned buildings.

I am from the place that stores hardly have
Long lines and
Restaurants that don't really have a lot of
Customers

I am from the place that people can have a quiet and less crowded place to live in.

I am from the place that
Even tourists or new
Comers hardly visit

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By: Charles Elkins

Where I'm from is Chula Vista, California.
There is a sidewalk that has a big hill
With a bumpy street
There are no kids
To play with me

Unlike my other neighborhood
I had people to play with me
Like tag, hide and seek, etc.

When I go to sleep
What I hear are dogs howling,
and planes flying
Also on the 4th of July my family goes and buys oysters to eat them.

The music that floats through our home is
Church music every Sunday
so we can eat pancakes.

The persons I miss are my two nephews and my brother because they were the only people I had fun with.

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By Charles Cota

I'm from where you can see the sunset
I'm from where it smells fresh
I'm from where you can hear birds
I'm from where you feel safe
I'm from where you can taste the early breakfast of my mom

I'm from where kids play all day
I'm from where all neighbors get along
I'm from where everyone gets to go together
I can see everyone playing as if they had nothing else to do

I'm from Mexico, Rosario.

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By Adan Chavez

I am from United States of America
in the state of California,
in a city called Chula Vista.

I grew up with my mother.
My mother. I grew up with her.

I love to play and be free
I like to go in the wild
or to the forest.

I like to go fishing
and go to the store.

I like to sleep 😴
and go to jack in the box.

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By Hector Bueno

Where the smell is fresh
The sound is kinda quiet.
It's noisy sometimes .
The voices of the people are quiet.
They hush. They whisper.
My people are nice.
They are warm and kind.

I
am
from
San Bernadino.

At night a hear a lot of cars passing by.
My family cooks
menudo or Pozole and tamales to celebrate.

And the music they hear is nortaña.

I miss the kids that I played with.
Fresh air floats through my house
and the smells of food.
My neighborhood has a lot of kids that play outside.

Sometimes, I go out to play, too.

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By Promisse Kitt

I am from Woodlake California
I am from were kids go out to play
I am from were people sometimes have parties.I am from were people hate other people
I am from were there's always greese and ducks
I am from were thier is alot  of little kids

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By George Ella Lyon

Where I'm From I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
from Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls
and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up!
and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
with a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself.

I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch, fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost          to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight. Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments---
snapped before I budded---
leaf-fall from the family tree.