Shirley Andrews:  

When you put GOD first into your Life, then Everything else just falls in place. Moving to the ATLANTA area has given me an opportunity to spread my wings a little further as DETROIT will ALWAYS be 'Hometown', but I have a place where I now call 'Home' here. I visit DETROIT at least twice a year (SORRY, can't do winter months anymore unless I have to) especially since most of my 'HOMIES' as well as Family are still there. I sit back and regroup on my School days as I mostly worked with Teachers helping with Attendance Records and also Filing as I knew who had what on their Report Cards and who was Cutting Classes the most (You know who you are!). I can Actually say that through ALL my years in School I was considered 'The Teachers Pet' as I was ALWAYS willing to go that Extra Mile in learning Business Skills and Not to 'Toot' My Own Horn, but I was also a little Smarter than Most and would Help in Tutoring who I could. I learned Organizing and Management skills which lead me to handle any situation that was thrown at me in the Work force as well as doing Business on my own. My FAVORITE School was SAMPSON ELEMENTARY. SAMPSON was a School that had Values and each Teacher took time out to Teach us not only the basic Studies of Education, but also in Life. The learning process there was Enormous as I took that along with me in Life. I tell many people that when we moved and I had to go to another School, it seems like they were 'Behind' a few Levels of Learning (Sorry, but it's True) as I had learned most of it 2 grades before as we were 'Suppose' to have moved to a Better Neighborho...Expand for more