Nanyamka Gallardo’s family has lived in the South Shore neighborhood for 12 years. Sometimes it’s safe, other times “you shouldn’t bother coming outside. ... My neighborhood is too unpredictable. You never know what day is going to be a bad day, and that makes me uncomfortable because it makes it difficult to ever leave the house.” Hadiya Pendleton, a friend of Nanyamka’s, was gunned down in Harsh Park on Jan. 29, 2013. A few months later, another friend, Kevin Ambrose, was killed in a drive-by shooting at the 47th Street Green Line station. When Nanyamka graduates from Kenwood Academy in 2015, she wants to attend the University of Illinois-Chicago and major in communications. Her goal is to become an entertainment journalist, preferably writing for Rolling Stone magazine. “I don’t know exactly how I am going to accomplish that, but failure isn’t really an option for me because there’s nothing more that I want than to leave my neighborhood.” However, she does admire the sense of unity the elders of her block have created.