I remember my first day in sociology class, when the professor asked us about community. What did community mean to us? Who was in our community? How did we define community!

How were our lives connected to community?

Before school, my community was my parents, my little brother, my best friend two doors down, and my cousins and extended family.

Elementary school, it extended to my neighbourhood.  I learned about the world from traveling and experiences with my parents.

And in High School, my community became bigger. It became my city, it became the world, it became wider and larger, scarier and more frightening but also in a sense, enlightening. We traveled as a class to New York, to Chicago.

Then I found myself sitting in a sociology class learning about what community really meant. What it was really about. And since then, my world has expanded. Largely in thanks to the expansion of technology that was a large part of my experiences growing up.

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