My most significant
discourse community is the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement (VEYM) in the
USA. In my case, my VEYM, which has about 30 the youth leaders (ages 18 and
above) and 150 youths/students (ages 6 to 18), is located in Honolulu, Hawaii
where I spent the past six years. I have not joined the VEYM in Savannah and
not planned to because I want to focus on school.
“The Vietnamese
Eucharistic Youth Movement is a non-profit organization, under the leadership
of the Catholic Church” (About Us) . We would meet once
a week on Sundays to have one-hour youth leaders’ meeting. During these
meetings, we discuss everything that is going on within our VEYM such as plans
for Easter egg hunt, Christmas play, Halloween’s hunted house, Lunar New Year, camps,
outdoor activities; sharing lesson plans; discuss class issues and so on. Then
we teach the kids two classes: Bible and Vietnamese language classes; each
lasts an hour. The day ends with mass in church.
First thing that makes
my VEYM a discourse community is that we share a common and specified goal
which is to help our kids not only “be virtuous people and good Christians,”
but also keep their Vietnamese root (About Us) . Throughout the
weekdays, we mostly communicate through emails to share and discuss
information, plans, meetings’ minutes and so on. We also have a Facebook page
where we post pictures of our activities through the year, have open
discussion, and communicate with others VEYM at other states which make up one
big discourse community, the VEYM in the USA.
Works
Cited
"About Us." The Vietnamese Eucharistic
Youth Movement in The USA (n.d.).
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