'The community within the shadows'
Today's post has been written by a local student who we've had with us on work experience all week. Thelma is just about to go into her final year of A-levels at Edmonton County School and, after that, has hopes to study psychology at university. During her time with us she wrote two possible blog posts, one on Afghanistan and one on Edmonton which she titled, 'The community within the shadows.' Thelma described the Edmonton post as "a bit cheesy" but it's the post I've chosen to put up here as I think it offers a positive future for our community and makes some great suggestions for local activities we could put on to bring people together. Have a read and see if you can come up with any ideas which may help to pull Edmonton out of the shadows. I agree with Thelma: it's time for Edmonton to shine.
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Edmonton is a great community with a good multi-cultural environment. It has great people within it and has a diverse age range. I think it’s about time that Edmonton stepped out of the shadows of being under the Enfield banner and start being recognised. We need to start doing things as a community…it's time for Edmonton to shine.
In 2008-2009 Edmonton was going though the toughest times a community could possibly go though. Edmonton was always in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons. People didn’t want to turn on the television because the main headlines in the news would be, ‘Another teenager has died in Edmonton, North London after being fatally stabbed to death.’ Well it's time that Edmonton was in the news headlines again, but for all the right reasons this time.
As a community we need to stand out and be one. As we are a multi-cultural community we should organise events that can be done together, so that everyone can take part in what's going on, no matter of your age, size or race. Edmonton has talented young pupils from various schools that can help organise an 'Eddympics,' which is sure to capture the country's attention. Other games could include a multi-national dish day where different cultures can cook food and we can all sit down and eat. Come on Edmonton, it's time for us to rise up onto our feet again.
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Edmonton is a great community with a good multi-cultural environment. It has great people within it and has a diverse age range. I think it’s about time that Edmonton stepped out of the shadows of being under the Enfield banner and start being recognised. We need to start doing things as a community…it's time for Edmonton to shine.
In 2008-2009 Edmonton was going though the toughest times a community could possibly go though. Edmonton was always in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons. People didn’t want to turn on the television because the main headlines in the news would be, ‘Another teenager has died in Edmonton, North London after being fatally stabbed to death.’ Well it's time that Edmonton was in the news headlines again, but for all the right reasons this time.
As a community we need to stand out and be one. As we are a multi-cultural community we should organise events that can be done together, so that everyone can take part in what's going on, no matter of your age, size or race. Edmonton has talented young pupils from various schools that can help organise an 'Eddympics,' which is sure to capture the country's attention. Other games could include a multi-national dish day where different cultures can cook food and we can all sit down and eat. Come on Edmonton, it's time for us to rise up onto our feet again.