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I'm Emily and this is my first entrance on the blogging stage. I don't have all the blogging lingo or terms down yet, but I'm pretty excited to start my own blog. In this tech savy year of 2010, it seems like everyone is blogging about something, so it's time I joined in on the action.
All my life, I've lived in an upper class neighborhood on the north shore of Chicago. Opporutnities are abundant, the education is phenomenal and no one could ask for anything more. But I know life isn't like this all around the world. Heck, I know life isn't like this all around my city! I've done an urban mission trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where I worked in the inner city at a center where kids could hang out during the day during the summer so they wouldn't stay on the streets. I've done another one to Grand Rapids, Michigan where I worked at an overnight camp for low-income kids/families. Finally, this past summer, I studied in Spain for a month, where I was exposed to class levels on the the global scale. Poverty and class aren't just prevalent in the United States. There are people living on the streets in Granada, Spain too. The point is, I've been exposed to a multitude of socieities and class levels.
I'm hoping my range of experiences with class nationally and internationally will help me dive deeper into the subject of class on the national as well as international scale.Through my blogging, I'll be exploring class divisions in our country and world, and how it affects us and our society. There is a multitiude of different ways to take this topic, such as wealth and power or wealth and education. I also have a passion for serving others, so I hope to explore some organizations that are helping to take a stand against injustices due to class levels. Stay tuned!
Class is all around you. The question is, do you notice? Are you even aware? Or are you living in what we call "the bubble", where everything seems great? The goal with my blog is to get outside my bubble and notice the class differences all around me, and the effects. Let's see if I live up to my expectations!
Emily
