Teamwork

So I just realized this 'failed to post' the first time I tried so hopefully it works now. 


Teamwork is key in life, if you do not have the skill to work with others you will have a hard time in life. An example of when I worked on a team was in Australia on a project for my class. Actually I had two groups that I worked in while I was abroad, both had their share of challenges. In both groups I was in, I was the only native English speaker, making more than one thing difficult. In one instance we had to write a paper, in which we each wrote our own parts, then they sent it to me and I pieced everything together and made the changes that needed to be made. This proved to be very challenging, we had two Chinese students and one student from Denmark in our group including me. When they sent me their parts a good majority of the work did not make sense because of the difference in talking styles. Considering English, and grammar are not my strong suites I relied on my cousin to help with editing, and she had as much trouble as I did piecing it all together. In the second instance I again was the only native English speaker. This one was difficult in its own way. My team consisted of a Russian girl, a Chinese girl, and myself. The young Russian girl, did not know much about the culture of school here in the United States, and thought we just liked to goof off, so when we started to get working on our presentation she was very bossy and was not giving me much kindness. I found this group really hard to work in because, I felt inferior to everyone else in the group, and they did not let me show them my work ethic. Overall we did very well on the project, but the feeling of inferiority was not a good one.
The teams that we have made in Writing Professions is going to be different in the fact that we are all native Americans. I also feel that having groups of people with similar interests makes writing and group work much easier.


There is no 'I' in team.



Keep smiling.


Tegen