Hannah's Blog

Imagine walking onto a pool deck, as someone who knows nothing about swimming, and hearing the coach on deck saying "We're leaving on the top for 8x200s aerobic on 3:00." You wouldn't know what they were talking about, right? However, us competitive swimmers would. For the rest of the semester, I would like to focus and truly hone in on the discourse community of competitive swim, especially focusing on the teams I have been apart of in both Los Angeles and Orange County, to

A discourse community is not just a group of people sharing the same interests or have something in common. It is a community of people who share goals, vocabulary, shorthand, methods of communication, and more. It is a blessing to be apart of such communities, and I am blessed that I can be apart of so many! Three discourse communities I am apart of that greatly influence my identity and have become apart of who I am are swimming, modeling, and social media influencing. In e

When most people hear that I swim, they think I just swim back and forth, staring at a black line all day, watching the clock. But it's so much more than that. From the outside, it can seem like simply an individual sport - you get your own time, you race in your own lane, etc. However, being in the sport for 7+ years, I have learned that competitive swimming is so much more than an individual sport. There is a bigger culture that is deeper than yourself and so many other tea

There is a deeper world to athletics in general, and specifically swimming than anyone truly realizes. Credits: https://swimswam.com/where-races-begin-the-engineering-behind-anti-wave-starting-blocks/ Most people picture swimming as an easy, fun sport where you swim back and forth and stare at a black line the whole time. While that is true, the sport is way more than that. Swimming, just as any other competitive sport, has its own culture, language, expectations, traditions,

The Early Years: My Literacy Journey Hi! I'm Hannah, and while I am majoring in Criminal Justice and have aspirations to be an attorney one day, when I was younger, all I did was write stories. I loved imagining things and I loved coming up with my own characters in my fictional novel. I wanted to be an author when I grew up, and me and my best friend at the time both loved writing stories together. I know most people dislike writing essays and writing in general for school,