My initial thoughts about place and identity are that where you are and where you are from help define who you are. Growing up, I lived in a little neighborhood of town houses. The neighborhood was shaped into a square, it was small so that meant I knew where I was, and was never too far away from home. It also meant that I knew all the kids that lived there. We were all different. Different races and different interests, but we all still hung out. Even to this day, I’m still friends with the same people. We grew up and still like different things, I'm into hip-hop/rap, and my best friend likes alternative rock, but where we lived and who we became friends with helped us learn to not judge others because of their differences. I've grown up and made so many new friends, high school really put a toll on all those relationships. I never had problems with anyone, but since I was friends with so many people, there was bound to be drama between my friends. High school is where you start to see people break off into little "cliques". I was always the one to jump around and meet new people. But having so many friends like that just made me the kind of person that doesn't get into anyone else's business, or spread rumors. Say if two groups of my friends weren't getting along, I'm not the one to take sides. Growing up in that small neighborhood with those different kinds of people, made me into the kind of person I am today.
