“There’s some kids who are obviously really weird,” said Jason Marin, 18, below, who plays the snare drum. “And there’s kids who just want to play music on a football field.”
Not everyone is a family in band, some others just play music just to play music.
Now, she and Nina help recruit new kids into their cohort, visiting the local middle school for a club fair in the hopes of enticing some of the outgoing eighth graders.
Recruiting new members for band is something that Julia and Nina want to expand on to show how this family thhing can be very useful for others.
“My girlfriend and best friend are both fellow ‘band kids’ and I genuinely don’t know where I’d be right now without them.”
The person saying this shows that theyre closest friends are from band. Almost like a family.
But the people she met “make all of that anxiety feel like it fizzles away.”
Julia feels more comfortable by meeting new people, getting our her shell.
“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.”
Ashley feels like being in a band is something very special to her and her band.
“It gives me so much joy. Because I really wanted for girls to be able to go out and just be themselves.”
The group says this because where they are from not many girls really go out to skate or dress like the men they would see doing so. So with this community it really expresses how women can do what they want and they should.
What began with Blessing posting photos and videos of her own skating escapades has grown in just two years to more than 90 young people from all over Nigeria, ranging in age from their late teens to mid-20s, who are part of the collective’s WhatsApp group and take part in in-person events, including thrifting expeditions to the market.
This community collectively got together by seeing them have the same tyle or the style someone would want. They communicated through social media and got together just based on their love for their own fashion.
“Unlike shopping in boutiques and malls, in the market there’s no gender restrictions or conforms. If I go to, like, let’s say, H&M or Mr. Price, there’s the male section, the kids section, the females section,” said Stephanie.
With this stephanie is saying how in a thrift market they arent really sections for gender or age, men can style womens clothes and women can style mens clothes.
For a good haul, Stephanie usually budgets 10,000 naira, or about $22 — a small fraction of her salary. “With that I can get three bottoms and about five tops,” she said.
Also you can pay for a lot of clothes that can make a lotof outfits with not that much money. So its sort of a style this community has developed, styling clothes that doesnt cost much but really had style.
“You have to explore the market to get what you really want,” she said. “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.’”
She is saying how when purchasing clothes you don't really see them good, but once you style it with either different layers or colors, the outfit can really come out together which becomes style.
Finding a bargain is like scouring a beach for buried treasure. And the Dencity skaters know how to look.
In a Thrift store you can find some “treasures” which is what this article talks about, this group of skaters came together with the way they dress which is from the Thrift Market.
Food brings people together. I think that’s the source of life.”
Yes food brings people together but I dont think its just the food I think it’s the cultures and traditions that bring communities together and I feel like with that they can relate or can speak to each other with a topic of those traditions.
“Having the opportunity to move into a bigger and better location and seeing our clientele grow even bigger in the past six years has been awesome, and I think that my abuelito would be really proud.”
They want to expand their Restaurant to continue welcoming new customers, and beig bigger than their grandparents have ever thought it would be and doing that they would make their Grandpa proud.
“neither completely American nor fully Mexican, and really just this hybrid of all these things I’ve learned about and experienced.”
This also is what I mean by the Restaurant being very welcome and open to anyone, its not just a Mexican Restaurant, it's a place to make you feel comfortable for who you are not just your race. In this article it also talked about how the restaurant gives people food that's off the menu, so If they also serve food that isn't just Mexican upon your request, that would show how much they are welcoming anyone.
This space “filled the void that I was missing for a long time,” he said. “Sarapes brought what used to be the very social part of me out again.”
Tommy was isolated for a long time due to covid and with Sarapes the Restaurant, he feels as if it's a club or event every time he goes, he meets and talks to new people to become more social and outgoing.
“The people at Sarapes definitely feel like family to you,” said Ivy. “They accept you as one of their own like it’s nothing.”
The restaurant is very open to anyone, I think the target for this restaurant is not only to feed you food but to make you feel welcomed and comfortable eating there.
for these young people, the restaurant has a deeper, less public meaning that goes beyond the promise of good food. It’s their treehouse — a haven amid school and jobs and shifting futures — and they’re constantly adopting new arrivals into the club.
The Restaurant is a place that doesn’t only have good food but also a good young community. I feel like this kind of touches up on what we have been learning, this community of young folks come together to eat, share laughs, and share either a goal or belief of living.