My Experience At The Cross Country Team For My School

As a Sophomore in high school I joined the Cross Country team for my school. I was very nervous at first because I felt intimidated by everyone there. When I made the team and practices started I focused on myself and how I could improve. After a while of doing the same routine I got bored and started to lose purpose other then being competitive with others. I felt a bit lonely after a while running by myself and being my own cheerleader. When competitions came I would focus on myself and no one else then I realized that in order to win you had to work as a team to make it to the finish line. I started giving tips to my teammates and talking to them and in return I got useful advise as well. I started noticing as I talked more to them I started to feel comfortable. I realized I found a new family of friends that were there for me as I was for them.
Zadie Smith gave a speech to the New School and she advised the graduates to take in importance of being social and also being part of something. Networking is great example of getting around to meet new people and being active. Zadie gives an example of helping by describing the time she passed out rum cake on her mothers birthday and other women helping as well. Zadie realized that even in the small things people can still work together to get things done like one women said “many hands make short work.” and its true because the more people collaborating in a project things get done much quicker. “generations are defined by the projects they take on together” I find this quote she said to be true because when I was in my Cross country team I was shy and intimidated by how good everyone else was and I was just a beginner. I didn’t do much interaction with them because I was af...

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... I was very uncomfortable with the situation but I knew it was beneficial for the team. We then all started to be more comfortable about each other and work together things began to change and so did our attitude with one another. We began to win races because we would cheer each other on and give each other advise. What social literacy means to me is an experience that has occurred at a point in your life and has changed the way that you saw or thought about the situation and made a change to make it different through the ways of communication and action being done.
Social literacy doesn’t just only have one definition or example it can vary from the situation that someone is in. The authors that I chose resembled some type of way that I also delta with my situation which was through the means of communication and being thoughtful of others then just myself.