Afton Reed
My junior year of high school I was nominated for a summer residential Governor's school program. It was so exciting and terrifying at the same time. It's something you go into completely alone. You live with kids you don't know for 6 weeks. And on top of that, you are not allowed to bring a cell phone, for the exact reason of creating communitas. We all came together for similar reason, some for arts and some for humanities, but we were all forced into this scary situation where we were forced to communicate with eachother if we didn't want to be alone. Today we still talk.Something I think to be a characterstic of communitas is saying "remember when... good times." Even the people you didn't get to know very well, treat you like you were best friends, because they feel connected with you through the experience.
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