My Discourse Community
Did you know that there are four types of discourse communities? There's the professional community, which is your job, career or working environment. Your social communities are your friends and family. The civic community is the clubs, hobbies and extracurricular activities you attend to or participate in. The last one is your cultural group, religion, ethnicity, environment cultures all play into this one. My discourse community happens to be a mix of all four of these.
I am a competitive dancer and because of this all of my friends are my teammates. With just that my dance already mixes my civic and social communities. Hobby and friends. But last year I was offered a job as a stage manager with some other teammates adding professional …show more content…
The most evident memory I have of this happens to be my favorite memory ever with them. It even beats out winning nationals which is really hard memory to beat. Last year I was really sick, I had stomach, lung, heart and brain problems. I was diagnosed with a permanently open esophagus, a hemorrhage, severe acid reflux, and epilepsy. Because of all the tests I had to go through to determine and diagnose these, I was forced to miss tons of practice. I was constantly in and out of the hospital. When I was out, I was too sick to attend. I missed the first two months of practice. I didn’t know the choreography, I had also lost a lot of my strength and flexibility. One day I was allowed to leave the hospital for an hour and I decided to go see my team. It was a very easy decision. I was behind on choreography and didn't want to let them down. I was hooked up to a machine with a tube down my nose and throat. I could barely talk and I was in so much pain. But the minute my team saw me they didn't care and neither did I. The pain just vanished. I walked in the front doors and before I could open the studio door it was flung open as six of my 12 teammates enveloped me in a hug. The other six turned their heads screamed my name and ran towards me. It was then I was involved in a huge bear hug with all 12 of them around me. I started bawling, I had missed them so much. I was surprised to see even the girls that were
I am a competitive dancer and because of this all of my friends are my teammates. With just that my dance already mixes my civic and social communities. Hobby and friends. But last year I was offered a job as a stage manager with some other teammates adding professional …show more content…
The most evident memory I have of this happens to be my favorite memory ever with them. It even beats out winning nationals which is really hard memory to beat. Last year I was really sick, I had stomach, lung, heart and brain problems. I was diagnosed with a permanently open esophagus, a hemorrhage, severe acid reflux, and epilepsy. Because of all the tests I had to go through to determine and diagnose these, I was forced to miss tons of practice. I was constantly in and out of the hospital. When I was out, I was too sick to attend. I missed the first two months of practice. I didn’t know the choreography, I had also lost a lot of my strength and flexibility. One day I was allowed to leave the hospital for an hour and I decided to go see my team. It was a very easy decision. I was behind on choreography and didn't want to let them down. I was hooked up to a machine with a tube down my nose and throat. I could barely talk and I was in so much pain. But the minute my team saw me they didn't care and neither did I. The pain just vanished. I walked in the front doors and before I could open the studio door it was flung open as six of my 12 teammates enveloped me in a hug. The other six turned their heads screamed my name and ran towards me. It was then I was involved in a huge bear hug with all 12 of them around me. I started bawling, I had missed them so much. I was surprised to see even the girls that were