Personal Narrative: The Vistas At Walden Pond

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We used to call it the Vistas. Everyday afterschool my friends and I rode the school bus through Miami-Dade until we got to the vistas at Walden Pond. Walden Pond was a place located on county line road. The county line split Dade and Broward County from each other. The vistas at Walden Pond were surrounded by lakes and a very noisy highway. A barbershop and a corner store was right down the street, as well as the supermarket Winn-Dixie. Home to many people of different ethnicities and backgrounds, Walden Pond provided the cheapest and most convenient lifestyle. Sporting freshly covered Beige paint coating and remodeled stairways, as well as red brick roofs, the rich exterior would fool many tourists into thinking Walden Pond was an exquisite

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