discourse communities

Discourse communities

My discourse community is called Rotex, is for young people fro 15 to any age, that has been on an exchange all over the world with the Rotary International program, the members at this point are from 16 years to 21 of age, both female and masculine, we are all students at this time our goal is to we help exchange students\foreigners who have just arrived in Mexico, to help them go through their culture shock and help them get settled, because we have been through the same experiences, so we know what it takes, or how someone feels being in a completely different country; you become a member by having gone on an exchange, and have a complete attendance on the different meetings we have over the year. Our communication is via phone, email or via social networks such as facebook, we actually have a group and thats where the president or anyone can post about their ideas, or coming activities.We write about new ideas, about our experiences and then share them with everyone else, this topics are important to the community, because when someone goes somewhere, when you do not know anyone, and everything it is just different, and we are people who speak other languages, and will help them go through it all, it is important to our community, because no one else could help that foreigner that us, that we have been thtough the same and know the language, and some other stuff. we talk spanish and english, but since a lot of our members have gone to Brazil, we speak spanish and portuguese, it is important that we speak other languages because it helps up to our future and opens doors to other opportunities in life, not everyone is a trilingual person. an important thing that has happened to all of us ex-exchange students is that one friend who went to Taiwan decided to open a mini school for languages, and you would get paid for teaching that language, so it opens opportunities not only for the future, but also for those people who want to learn the language and doesnt have the opportunity to go for a year to another country, where everything is different than your comfort zone, it takes a lot of courage to do that. Adapting to a community is not so easy, but our community of Rotex is easy to adapt, because as I have mentioned before, we have been in another country all by ourserlves, so we had to become independent, and learn how to make new friends, so it has been easy to adapt, with the topic we had been talking in class in the 2012 elections, I believe that in the elections it takes leadership, and as young people we are learning how to take the lead, and help others. this organization has made an impact on exchange students, eventhough this is our first year in the organization, the effect on those foreginers has been greater than we expected,  now we are getting more people,for them  to start thinking of others by giving them the support they need;On the other hand in their exchange  the foreigners get to stay in different houses, so if they are having trouble with their families they can come to us and we can give them advices. It takes a big heart to give some of your free time to help those who need it,therefore we inspire, and get inspired, so associating this with the political issues that are happening in our country are countless, it will help me, to get more information, and learn from otheres.