My Community

This is a great piece of writing from one of my students, 12 year old Kantong, who has yet again come top of the class in the Diploma Level 3a. Congratulations Kantong and everyone else in the class who passed.

My name is Aroonrerm Kittirattanachai. I’m studying in grade six. Today I’m going to talk about My community.

When I was young,my community was very beautiful. It had lots of trees and people were friendly.

But now everything has changed, trees are being cut down to build new houses and buildings. The people who were there moved out and college students moved in. From a quiet community it has turned into a place where the noise never stops. There are sounds of construction, traffic and music till late at night.

The clean air in the past has become dirty with pollution from cars and dust. Since there are less trees, they can’t help the air much. And from a community where almost everyone knew each other and helped each other, it has changed into a community where we don’t even know our neighbours next door.

When I was a little kid, I liked to watch fireflies flying at night but now I can rarely see one. This shows how the pollution, construction and tree cutting has effected the environment.

In my community almost every one used to trust each other but now there are more and more robberies.

But there is not only just bad things happening, good things happen too. For example, there are new opening stores close by so if I want to buy something I don’t have to wait for my father to take me to the store, I can go and buy it by myself. Some of our new neighbors are friendly too. They sometimes share things with us.

Everything keeps changing in real life. You should look for good things in that change, then you will be happy with life. But if you keep thinking that the old things are the best and don’t face the change, you won’t be able to see the good the change brings you.