“It’s very rewarding when you can go on the field and do something awesome with your friends,”
Being a cheerleader, I understand these words completely. When I'm able to show off skills my team and I have been working on for long periods of time, I always feel accomplished and proud.
“I think a lot of it is because we have all seen each other go through some bad times,” said Stephen Richardson, 18, at right, citing early season rehearsals “where everybody sucks pretty bad.”
I can relate to going through tough times with teammates. These are the times that you bond the most over your shared interest/ passion because everyone supports each other through really rough patches.
While there are cliques — it’s high school! — band members consider themselves to be relatively welcoming and close-knit, especially compared to bands at larger schools.
Considering how small the school is, the handful of people who share a common interest are bound to bond over it. Programs at larger schools could become more disconnected.
“There are very few anxieties I’ve felt more extreme than that of being a first-time freshman at band camp,” she said. But the people she met “make all of that anxiety feel like it fizzles away.”
Sometimes it can be hard to understand different peoples experiences when it comes to things like anxiety. However when you know you are surrounded by people who understand and care for you, it is easier to get comfortable and begin to feel more at home.
“It felt like I was a part of something special and important. I felt that I could make a difference on a large team of people all striving for something we cared about.”
It seems like Ashlee enjoys surrounding herself with people of common interest in order to push each other towards a common goal. It always feels good to be surrounded by people who have the same if not more drive than you do.
It’s the sort of place you leave — dwarfed by its next-door neighbor, Kent, home to Kent State University, which has more undergraduates (more than 20,000) than Ravenna has people (just over 11,000).
This is something I find hard to relate to. I'm originally from Burbank CA where walt Disney studios and universal studios are right next to each other so everything is typically crowded and loud.
to have a support system beyond your biological family
Having a couple of communities to be a part of could be very freeing and open you up to many different opportunities.
“The people at Sarapes definitely feel like family to you,” said Ivy. “They accept you as one of their own like it’s nothing.”
A lot of the time, all someone needs is another person to recognize them as one in the same. A small gesture like this makes for a solid foundation for a community.
“It fulfills everybody’s needs, just going there and socializing. Not even eating the food but it’s more of connecting with other people.
The photos do an amazing job of showing the reader what the community feels like in a more specific way. Most of the time, even the best and most detailed description can be interpreted 100 different ways.
The space is a physical reminder of their kinship. When they come home to Sarapes, they can return to where they started.
Communities like these are extremely important for people to have in order to feel connected and a part of something bigger than themselves.
“It’s one of the reasons why we’ve been able to maintain ourselves in this country,” said Adrian Martinez Chavez
This quote shows the reader how important this restaurant is to not only the customers but also to the founders.
When Ivy Berubes, 22, orders a Shirley Temple at the Sarapes Mexican Restaurant bar, they make it for her even though it’s not on the menu. The menu also doesn’t list “The Tommy Bowl” — a deconstructed burrito — but Tommy Agramonte, 20, gets to order it; after all, it is named after him. Sade Guess, 21, swears by the birria tacos, another off-menu item.
This intro gives the readers a sense of the restaurants community they have built.
“And sometimes, what we buy doesn’t always make sense. We have to figure out how to style it. We're like, ‘It’s going to make sense one day.’”
The fun part of thrifting is not always finding the perfect thing, sometimes you could thrift something and forget about it but then find it months later and make a perfect outfit.
“They are very in their own bubble of style. If you can influence from a space that is available to everybody, then you’re special.”
I've always looked up to people who had a unique style. I love seeing people expressing themselves in the cloths they wear.
Finding a bargain is like scouring a beach for buried treasure. And the Dencity skaters know how to look.
I can understand the feeling of searching for the perfect find. I spent all of high school going to different thrift stores and flea markets around LA and I would always be so jealous of the people who found such cool stuff. I always tried to find stuff I loved but I never had the patience.
They might be selling baskets of fresh fruit, wheelbarrows stuffed with phone cases, piles of sequined fabrics or racks of second-hand clothes.
This sentence paints a vibrant picture in the readers mind of the atmosphere in the thrift market. This setting reminds me of a lot of the flea-markets around the Los Angeles area.
At the bustling Yaba Market in Lagos, Nigeria, there is something for everyone.
This introduction gives the reader an idea of what the article will be focusing on while also making them feel like they might find connections to their own life.