The community that I have chosen to right about is one that I have grown up in. I have had my struggles with it but I have also had moments were there is no other place in the world that I would rather be and that is the religious community. Growing up in a religious community has showed me many things over the years. Over the years I participated in community service through my church like working the church fish fries and helping out with the religious education program. I think that the most influential thing that I have done through the community is going on a retreat to help out at retirement homes. during the course of the trip we helped the people who worked at the home catch up on things that normally they wouldn't have time to do. While we did have to do all the grunt work, I learned important life lessons from the people at the homes like not to let the joy leave your life and the people that we lose here on earth can still live through us. The religious community that I grew up in is one of love. so much so that there are ways for the church to help those who are in need, for most of us we give to the churches that we go to because we are told we are making a difference by giving. Most of us don't bother to see how we are making a difference, in my community back home I got to see how a difference was being made. While I was at home I saw the pregnant teen mothers getting help, the people who couldn't afford rent get a little bit of extra money from the church and food be given to those who couldn't buy it for themselves. This is my community a community that supports each other and that strives for a better world were there is no suffering.

Who you are is a very hard thing to describe, it is very easy to say that I was an athlete in high school just the same it is to say that I also kept to myself most of the time but none of that is who I am. Who I am is someone who has grown up having faced many adversities, having had an amazing family and a great group of friends around me. I am someone who goes to church on Sunday but would think twice about defending myself or my loved ones. As for what I am wanting out of the class, I am hoping that I can get the small flaws out of my public speaking and become a better writer. When it comes to which community I identify with its kind of hard for me to pick one, I grew up going to church so I identify with the religious, but I enjoy working out so I also identify with the athletes and there are several other communities that I do identify with. So I guess the easier question to answer would be which ones I don’t identify with.