About Me

Hi, my name is Sarah Buckley and I am from South Boston, Massachusetts. I am nineteen years old and I enjoy living in the city. I come from a small town with friends and family all over. I grew up in “Southie” my whole life, including going to catholic schools within my community up until high school. I attended Archbishop Williams High School, which was also a catholic school, for grades 9-12. Everyone in South Boston looks out for each other and we try to keep the environment as safe as possible. I live with my parents and older siblings, Taylor and Dennis. Taylor is twenty-five years old and Dennis is twenty-two years old. Taylor’s three-year old son, Brayden, also lives with us. I am currently enrolled as a freshman student at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. Living here in Elmira is a lot different than what I am used to at home. People call Elmira a “city,” but it is nothing like the city that I live in. In Boston, there are constantly people out roaming the streets no matter what time it is. Going in downtown Boston is very fun to do because it is full of excitement with restaurants, bars, shopping malls, and hotels. Downtown Boston is approximately five minutes from my house if you are traveling in a car. Here at Elmira there is no “night life,” except on campus, so it was a drastic change for me when I came here.

Changing the environments that I lived in was very different for me. There is a lot more organization on campus with recycling and other things, but I still don’t participate in it. I wish I could get myself to do it and I probably could if someone enforced it, but I just throw things out in the regular trash out of habit. I never really cared about the environment because of where I grew up and nothing was ever mandated. These problems in the environment recently showed up due to advocators trying to make a difference. I feel like Americans are very content with the way that they live and they become too lazy to help the environment. Even with a simple change such as recycling, most Americans cannot seem to keep up with it as an every day routine. I think that if it these changes were mandatory in each community then people would participate in things such as recycling. Recycling is a good habit to get into because it allows us to use the same materials over again.