Seeing/ Listen

SEEING-
I am doing my observations from my dorm room window last wednesday night. I live in Kem on the side that faces the bridge so I can see and hear everything almost everything that goes on. It is about 9:30 and it is raining, but there are still people walking by. Some people walk alone while others walk in groups. Girls seem to walk in lines or clumps while several groups of guys walked by in a V formation rather like migrating birds. Girls are much more likely than guys to carry an umbrella. If a guy is walking with an umbrella it is usually because he is walking with a girl. I can tell when the two people under the umbrella are a couple because they seeem to not mind being so close together. But I can also tell when the people under the umbrella are not a couple because even though they are both forced to stand in the same tiny dry space they are still staying as far away from each other as possible
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LISTENING-
I am doing my listening assignment in my car on the way out of the town of Ashland. I have my windows down, so I can hear thigns inside my car as well as outside. At first I only notice the things I expected to notice. I can hear car tires on the road, radios playing a variety of music and the occasional car horn. But the more I listen the more I start to hear other things. In my own car, I notice that every time I touch somthing it makes a noise, like the clicking sound the air conditioning button makes when I turn it on. Other people's cars make noise as they drive along. I think it is just the sound of the engine running, but it was intresting to notice that no two cars sounded exactly the same. What there was surprisingly little of was talking. Even if there were two people in a car they were usually not talking to each other. People walking on the sidewalk were much more likely to be carrying on a conversation that those who were rideing in cars.
-briana