Personal Narrative: My Community

Having a community where you can lean back on is one of the most important things that I have had in my life. The community I have always been involved in is sports but the one that impacted me the most was a community called drop-in soccer. Drop-in soccer is where different teams will play against each other every Tuesday and Thursday. I was invited to play on one of the teams by my assistant head coach from my high school soccer. The age ranged from 18 to 60-year-olds, that was the fun of playing drop-in soccer because it wasn 't just one age. The younger people that play were like me and wanted to play because they loved the game and also because they wanted to challenge themselves. The older people who played drop in did it to stay in shape. I loved participating in this discourse community because soccer is a very competitive sport for girls. Sometimes it was hard to keep playing soccer because it became a …show more content…
One of the main types of communication we used was emails, every week we had one person on the team who would send out weekly emails on who we were playing and what time we were playing. I would have to respond to the email if I could go, this helped me with my academic planning. Another type of communication that we used was texting each other for any last minute decisions or questions we had. Our last communication we used was a Facebook page. The main reason we used this Facebook page was to stay involved in the community because I played for the team Skullcandy and we were representing the company. By having a Facebook page, we started to get involved in the community, which I would have never thought that 's what I would be doing for just participating in a drop-in soccer team. It was a very fun experience to be able to be a part of. I didn’t realize how involved I was going to be in a drop-in team, I thought we would just meet up every Tuesday and Thursday to