Nelson de Jesus:  

My 1st day in IB I spent with my lil brother and during school hours we set out searching for a candy store to buy gum,he was8,I was9,we lost our way and couldn't find our way back home! We heard a loud strange sound in the air and followed it. When we finally walked 2 to 3 miles..we found the source of the loud roaring sound! It was the ocean and we saw playful seals body surfing and greeting the people on the beach! That was something!! As children it was a fantasy like reality. Some years later we didn't see that ever again...we loved the ocean..from the sharks feeding on the pilings to the parties on the beach..the sound however never changed but everything else had!! Mar Vista was as the same thing we saw people come and go..buildings come up and empty land disappear..and then we regretfully left to live in NYC...but the beach was still there.. when I went back years later I was fortunate to visit the beach and I saw all the things good and bad...but the ocean had stayed the same...just like a memory that doesn't change or the friendship we continue in the future's past Mar Vista is an ocean of those we knew and remember..the sound we hear are the voices from the past that are still there but forever..and so are my memories ...and that's a FACT!! Nelson I always wanted to be a guitarist ...Expand for more