Monday, September 1, 2008

Seeing and Listening assignment

For the "viewing" assignment, i choose to focus on one of my classes rec 362, in this class there are 5 students. after hearing our about community project we must conduct i watched every one's body language and how responsive they were concerning the news they had just received in which the assignment will constitute a well over a 1/3 of the semester's grade. i watched one young lady sitting in the second row one student from my left kept fidgeting with several items like a calender book, paper and pen throughout the instructor's explanation of the project. there are two guys in the class, he's sitting to my 4 0'clock with all the girls in front of him, his reactions to the news of the project were subtle but with a hint of stress being expressed with the look of many questions rushing to his face. the young lady sitting next to me was in an attentive and curious posture leaning towards the instructor with what seemed to be in "how is this going to fit in my schedule type of look?!!" the last young lady was sitting two people over my left she was eye balling the instructor as what seemed to look like she was soaking every word out of the instructors mouth and storing it in her forever endless data bank in her brain, very focus on what was being explained in class concerning the project.

the "listening task" took place at the "convo" dining hall during my breakfast time. after getting my food and sitting in front of the milk and juice bar, back facing the grill, i listen to the many different TVs going on at once such as the news channel on one, sports on the others, cartoons on another set. I heard groups of spread out people talking different conversations, hearing people in the back of the kitchen preparing the food , washing dishes, i heard the young lady at the front door on the north side of the dining hall greeting people as they walk in ready to eat. i heard forks and spoons hitting the plates as people wolfed down their food, i heard one guy burr, i also heard the staff sitting at the table engaging conversations about plans for the weekend.

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