To My Pen Pal,
I am Alicia Federico I’m (AGE), and live with my mum, dad, older sister and two younger brothers. It is the year 1930. I know you are reading this and are in the time 2010, what ever that may look like, but I would like to tell you a bit about my time here where I’m living and show you how different things may be now.
My home will be vastly different to yours I’m sure. Housing styles in our time, the thirty’s imitated social trends. Suburbans began to expand around railways and the growing road network. Many private suburban houses are semi-detached or detached. My house is very small as most houses here are, we have round bay windows on the ground and first floors, and an arch over the front door. The detailing of our house was inspired by the art Deco, such as sunburst leaded designs on the ‘lights’, the small upper sections of the bay windows which were hinged at the top. We have red bricks holding our house. At first we didn’t have a chimney, but later in the 1930’s we invested in getting a chimney for our family home. Our home is a very well oriented family home and has a very warm feeling to come home to.
At the moment, our country is suffering what we call “decade of depression”. The main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's. For a lot of families here, people have little to eat or wear. This did have a vast effect on my family, we struggle financially but we get through. My family and I use to go to the movies together, but in our financial state at the moment it’s impossible. The only activities my family and I do now are going to our local park and have picnics together. In my neighborhood I have a market, not a convenience store but a real market that sell fresh meat and produce at reasonable prices and we usually get our foods home delivered. There’s a park down the end of my street where, lots of the other children in my street play at, in the afternoons. My Younger brothers like to play there to.
As I am 14, I attend high school which carries grades 7-12. My Older sister has now gone off the college and my two younger brothers are in elementary school. Our school day goes from 9:00am to 3:00pm and I walk to school everyday. We have a strict dress code which consists of me either wearing a dress or skirt with a blouse. And boys have to wear either shorts or knickers. In my class I have about 20 students, our average class size usually rangers from 15- 25 students. I have a few close friends that I have had since elementary school. Back when we were little at school together we use to play ball games, hopscotch and jump rope all together.
One of my favorite shows is Amos n Andy, all my friends and family watches this show. Its probably one of the only most decent shows there is to watch. Also just released has been the movie “Cleopatra”. It’s my favorite movie so far to be made. As I said before we are currently suffering the largest market crash in American history, we are in an economic downfall called the great depression. This has a vast impact on our society but we are pulling through.
Well, there’s a bit about me and my life in the 1930’s… I would love to know a bit about your time. From Alicia
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