How have we adapted to this new lifestyle with our communities during the pandemic? Nowadays, communities around the world have developed newly creative ways for people to socialise safely. We all know completely being such a member of a community is vital to the success of our world. Communities are an essential part of human existence that impact our world view. The purpose of this paragraph is to examine what it means to be a part of a community during a pandemic. I will focus on my experience with my daughter during the 2020/2021 pandemic. We are from Mexico. Mexico is such a welcoming country with very beautiful and kind people. All my friends, father, mother, sister, nephews, nieces, in general all our relatives are there. When we moved to the USA four years ago, we arrived for the first time in Ohio, a beautiful state with so many cold days. Sometimes we had to stay at home for many weeks because of the snow storms, and we learned how we could do activities with others when we are locked up. For me, it was and is still very complicated to interact with my community in the USA because of the language barrier. However, now I am taking amazing zoom English classes. Also I have always maintained communication with my friends and relatives in Mexico with video calls or messaging, but because of the shut down with this pandemic, more than before. However, my daughter found so many different ways to play and interact with her new friends in Ohio. She played virtual Xbox with them, talked with them using video calls and messaging, went on virtual sleepovers, participated in so many different activities with her new friends, laughed and had fun with them before pandemic and continues even during the pandemic. For me, this is very funny to see her so happy. We arrived in California almost a year and three months ago and we lived first in Fremont for a year and now in Mountain View, California. My daughter met her new classmates only for a short time in Fremont. She didn’t generate any ties because she attended two different schools within a short span of time, and now she hasn’t met any of her classmates from Mountain View in person. That may complicate things for her, but I hope she will find creative ways again to establish friendships just like what she did in Ohio because we really want to belong to this beautiful community in Mountain View, California. Shelia is in the Intermediate High/ Advanced Low ESL afternoon class
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