How would I improve Richmond

In the last ten years Ive been here I have seen a lot of things that could make Richmond a better place to live and visit. A couple of things that I seen that could be improved is the housing and the transportation.
When we moved here in 1997, my family moved into Chesterfield there was no way to get around unless you had a car or if you knew someone. I think that if Richmond expanded there bus routes into the county people can found better jobs and be able to afford better housing. The city is tearing down all the affordable houses and doesn't want the inner city to branch out. There are no malls in the city and the only mall that you could catch the bus to is closing. So how does the mayor expect the inner city to improve when they are closing them in.
The other issue is the housing. All of the affordable housing in Richmond is being tore down or no one wants to live in certain places because of the drugs and violence in the area. There are no jobs in the inner city and this is where most people live. The people are moving out of the counties and back into the city and remodeling the run down areas, moving out the low-income families, and raising the cost of living. In Richmond there are a lot of corner store that I believe is a set up to our society. When you go into the better neighborhoods you might get lucky if you see a 7-11. Richmond does have a lot of opportunities to be able to find housing, but if you don't have the resources or a ride then you stuck.
Those changes can be made if the mayor puts more focus on the issues of the people and not trying to improve the parking lots in Shokco Bottom. I think that the mayor is not doing his job he wants the employment percentage to go down but not putting jobs in the city that people can qualify for. He is trying to make the city a tourist attaction. But these changes can be done if more people stick together.

My goals in the next few years may change from tonight. Right now, I am focused on getting my GED. I have tyred once before and never followed through with it. Another goal I have to achieve is found a criminology program to enroll in. That is also a long term goal for me. I know that once this GED program is out the way more doors will open up for me. Now that the Internet is available there is a lot of options for grants, scholarships, and some free pre-collage classes and they are offered to people with GEDs.

I will be 30 years old, this year and time doesn't wait. I know when I was younger my mom always told me to make a goal and set a time to accomplish it. It never seamed to work. Now that I'm older I think that setting a goal wouldn't be hard to achieve, because I have my mind set on it.

The company I work for as long as I'm in school they will help me pay for any programs I'm in as long as I complete them. I know that if I apply myself everything will be good, because I don't want to work for them for the rest of my life, Iam gonna what they teach me and learn from them and open my own business. That's not part of my goals, but something I thought about for a long time.

I know in the long run all the work and effort I put into my goals will payoff and make me very successful

One characteristic that I know about me that will draw a person to me is my personality. I know that what I say to people will make them smile and make them understand where I'm coming from. I'm never out to hurt you , just out to help a little. I love to talk about whats going on right at that time. You might say I'm nosey, but it's who I am.
At my age I learned a lot in life. Everyone I come in contact with love to be in my company. I work for a major store in Richmond, and i see a lot of different people with different personalities, but my life training has taught me how to deal with them(separate the weak from the obsolete). Not everyone is friendly, but those people you know how to deal with them.
Mabey if I come i contact with you you will like me or leave me alone

WHAT HAPPENED?

Many things has happened in my lifetime, but only one thing changed my life, the lost of a close friend, My father.
My father or should I say "pop" was my best friend from far back as I can remember. As a little girl I remember him picking me up from my grandmothers house after he got off work, and taking me out to eat or buying me some shoes or just hanging out with him, it was like the world to me. As I got older things started to change, and there was a lot of problems in my family.
When I was 16 years old me and my mother moved to Virginia to make a change and get to know each other, because it was not a good relationship with me and her. Moving to Virginia was not a good thing for me. First things I missed my "pop", and i wanted to be with him to make sure he was good. Things didn't go that way. I dropped out of school and started hanging with the hype crowd.
I always knew no matter what the situation was where my pop was at (REHAB;ON THE STREETS;OR ON A MISSION).
In 2003 he moved out of Philly with his life on the line. Now the rolls must change. I was the parent and he was the child. He found him an apartment in West Virginia, so he lived there for 3 years, until the alcohol mad him sick. Now hes back living in Virginia with me, because taking the trips back and forth was to much. For the first 3 months everything was good and we were back as a family after 10 years, yeah it was good. Then he moved and got his own place now back to the problems. The alcohol was always an issues with my father ever since he left the Vietnam War, as with a lot of the vets.
So as time went on he got really sick. On July 22,2007 he passed on to lead another life.
Since the lost I have gained a lot of strengh to make myself a better person. Not to live in the same life-steps that my father took and also learn to build a better life with my step-sister.
He always wanted me to get my GED so here Iam now trying to make my way to the top!

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