Pursuit of knowledge

People involved:
Any and every one in the world
Communications:
Formal/informal language, learning new
languages, many different types of interactions
with people
Goals:
To be a cultured , intellectual, and decent
human being, to know as much as you can
about everything, be well read and astute.

Goals:
To visit every country on my bucket list,
bring my cousins to Europe, to visit Cancun.
Communications:
Formal/Informal language, use of
Spanish ,English and French
People involved:
Family,Friends,Myself

Traveling

Jorge
Quezad
a

Soccer

People involved:
Coach, My dad, myself, my sister,
teammates, friends

Communications:
Mostly informal, rarely formal,
discussions
Goals:
To be dependable, make them proud, help
them reach their potential, to be more
independent.

Communications:
Informal/Formal langauge with coaches vs
players, different languages with players
Goals:
Be the best I can be by being the
fastest,smartest,hardest working, to play
professionally or semi-pro at least. To make
my dad proud and myself

People invloved:
Mom, Dad, Aunt, Grandma, Sisters,
Cousins

Family

Discourse community response

My name is Jorge Quezada I am a pre-engineering transfer from The Hague in Holland. I
have lived in various places in the US and Belgium, but was born here in El Paso I am of
Mexican decent. I speak English, Spanish, French and conversational Dutch. I like to play
soccer, FIFA, spend time with my family, travel, and learn new things.

First, in communities is soccer currently I just play within the school team. I use the same
language with everyone. Before I came to El Paso I had a more formal communication with my
coach and prior coaches over the ages. Now it is informal since there is no coach, just an explayer, that runs the program. There are several times I practice on my own as well as play with
friends and family. I can safely say that this is the discourse I enjoy the most besides seeing
friends and family.

My father has always really shaped this community and was also the one who entered me
into it. He really pushed me and encouraged me to pursue my dreams of playing professionally. I
have always wanted him to be proud of me. My goals for this particular discourse community is
to hopefully play professionally. Although its pretty farfetched, nothing is impossible, at the
very least I want to be semi-pro or at least be recognized for my skills. I want to work hard and
be completely self-realized.

Second, is my family community, which is also very important to me. There are many
people in my family, but I am closer to a certain number of them. My three sisters, my father and
mother are a huge part of my life. Right now I live with my grandma and grandpa and I see my
three closest cousins very often and they are like brothers to me. I do have sisters though which
live in Brussels with whom I speak to on a daily basis. The communication between my family
and I is mostly informal. We speak both in Spanish and English and with one sister occasionally
in a different language to practice. I rarely speak formally with my family because we are close.
My goals with my family are firstly, to make my parents proud by succeeding academically.
Second to persue a career to be able to provide for my future family. Another thing I would like
to fulfill is to be dependable for any member of my family that needs me. I would like to guide
my younger family members. Learn from the older family members and the more successful
ones. Lastly, I want to be able to stand on my own two feet as soon as possible and to not be a
burden to anyone but rather an asset.

Third, traveling for me is something that I have been doing all my life. From moving to
Miami when I was two then to Houston, Washington D.C, Brussels, The Hague and now I am
back in my birthplace. From each place I would travel with my family to places nearby. I
enjoyed all the places I have ever been to, but my favorite was Europe. Overall I have been to 15
countries between Europe and the Middle East.

Every place has its significance and its own culture. I felt I picked something up from
every place I went to not just literally, but metaphorically as well. Its a warm and different

feeling visiting all of these places. It is interesting to see how people in various areas of the
world live differently from us. There was a myriad of languages that I heard over my many times
traveling and could only speak and understand an insignificant portion of them. It was really eyeopening to see the true diversity that exists in the world. My main goal is to travel to many new
places. There are an abundance of new amazing places that I have never been to, for example:
the Giza Pyramids, Tokyo, and the Grand Canyon. Additionally, I would like to take my cousins
with me for us to experience traveling together.

Lastly, is my pursuit of knowledge community, which is something very important to me.

Knowledge is everywhere and there are just an infinite amount of things to know in the world.
The fact that we know almost nothing about a lot of subjects surprises me. There is always
something that can be learned even when you are at your deathbed that even the brightest and
most genius people do not know at all. For me, it all starts with myself reading just about
everything I find interesting. Most of the time I read from my phone, online, and books. Another
obvious place in my pursuit of knowledge is school. Learning about my current subjects expands
my horizons for my future.
People that are involved in this community, which is just about everyone, I come in
contact with you can learn something new. The language used is different depending on your
professor, peer, or stranger. Most of the time it is formal but at times you can have informal talks
with friends or peers. Moreover, my goals for this particular discourse community is to be well
read in my area of expertise. I want to be well educated on the subjects that matter to me in life
such as: politics, economics, science, life skills etc. Likewise, on hobbies such as soccer history,
anime, and fashion equally matter to me and can learn more from them. Although you learn

much from reading, viewing TV is just as beneficial with its messages and images it gets across.
There is no end to the things we can learn in life and my main goal is soak as much of it as
possible.

Conclusively, these four communities are the ones most prominent in my life. Soccer, has
always been a part of my life, and is my main source of fun and excitement and will continue to
be forever. Family is truly a huge part of my life both in inspiring and supporting me. Traveling,
exploring, and adventuring new places and the experience of being a nomad is something that
has really made me who I am. Finally, my pursuit of knowledge, which is never-ending, there is
always something to learn on a daily basis and it really formed how I think and act. Overall each
of these communities has shaped me and are continuing to shape me into a self-realized,
hardworking, cultured, and intellectual human being.