I have to say I am amazed by what prayer can do. I asked my church to pray for my roommate situation and they did. Not long after, my roommate started to speak to me again. I don't know if we're friends; but we're certainly on speaking terms.

I finally ordered my friend's poetry book that came out last year on amazon.com. I also ordered Whitney Houston's greatest hits cd so I could get free shipping.

For the first weekend after my first day of school on September 10th, I have to read a poetry book for my intro. to literature class and write a response paper for it. What a challenge! This semester will be pretty intense.

It was a regular day on Thursday, April 30th. I went to school, afterschool I went to pick up my check. Then I went to my apartment in Crown Heights to pack up some clothes to bring to California. I then proceeded to go home to Sunset Park. I was down the stairs at Utica Avenue and before I could go down the second flight to Manhattan. I heard bang, bang, bang, bang, and finally one last bang. At first it didn't registered in my mind they were gunshots. I was thinking, "what was that"? Then when the man in front of me turned around, it registered. I immediately turned around and ran up the stairs. As I came up the stairs from the subway unto the street, a woman asked me what was the sound. I said shots, they couldn't understand me, so I made the shape of a gun with my fingers. A few people didn't believe me and still went into the subway. I stood around for a few minutes, I saw police men and woman running to the subway station. It was not even 5 minutes or less that they responded. I called my mom and she told me to take the bus. I was pretty shaken by the whole experience. It was my first time I heard gunshots and was in a situation like this. After I went to take the bus to Kings Plaza and then transfer to the B9 to go to Sunset Park. It took me 2 hours to get home. Was I relieved to be home and see my mother! I'm still shaken at the thought of going back to Crown Heights. Thank God I am ok. After I found out online it was a policeman that shoot a panhandler that stabbed him 3 times with a screwdriver.