The community I live in currently
is Oxford, Ohio. It is on the southwest side of the state Ohio which shares the
city of Oxford with Miami University. It is by far a college town with more
than half the population is the students of Miami of Ohio. Before moving to
Oxford I lived in St. Louis Missouri. My dad is a golf professional so we have
moved a lot because of his job. He managed a golf course in St. Louis so we
lived there for about 2 years. We moved to Oxford for again my father’s job as a
golf pro at a golf course. It was very upsetting moving from place to place and
restarting meeting new people in a new community. It’s really hard sometimes
for people to change communities with maybe changing how you act and maybe even
how you dress or talk. I moved into a nice neighborhood where there were kids
that were my age and I have now lived in Oxford for eight years.
I believe a community is a place where you
call or called home where you feel at home with family friends and just great
people that support you. There is nothing better than when a whole community
comes together and supports one another. When I played basketball in high
school I would look in the stands when I was warming up and I would see old alumni’s,
family members, younger kids watching and hoping to be in the same shoes as I
was in, and old people from our community that wanted to see basketball and see
their community succeed. I loved seeing them cheering us on and having the
support as a community because it felt like we were all in it together and they
were rooting for us every time we stepped on the floor. Another time I saw the
community act was when a freshman cheer leader was in a terrible car accident
and was in a coma in children’s hospital in Cincinnati for several weeks. They
made shirts for her and wore them to games, as a team we wore her shirts and
bows on our shoes for her. The cheer leaders made a cheer for her and even the
parents wore the shirts of the cheer leader when they didn’t even know her. We
had a fundraising dinner at La Rosa’s for her and if you went and had the shirt
on or her flyer money would go to her fund and thousands of people went and
supported her with trying to pay for her hospital bills as her and her family
wasn’t the wealthiest of families to pay for all the expenses she had.
Communities are real when they stand tall together and come together as one.
One thing I noted was how you had excellent examples of the community coming together, you struggled at relating in back to your definition of community.
ReplyDeleteAlso I would incorporate how your moving from a one community to another alter your perspective on community and how it alter your definition of community. This will allow for your post to have more developed MEAL plan paragraph instead of just example within you second paragraph.