A time when I was able to join a new discourse community was in 2010 when I moved here to NYC. It was during the middle of 4th grade and I wasn’t sure if the students in my new school were going to speak Spanish and if I would get along with them. However, the class I was in was bilingual and most of the students spoke Spanish and I became really close with a group of my new classmates. There were a lot of things we could relate to like the fact that we were Dominican and our parents acted the same made us close friends.
