[Last modified: November, 20 2024 12:49 PM]
On Week 5 we did an interview activity during the seminar period. The first thing was to group up with someone else. I was not sure who I might work with because the classmates sat next to me all grouped up already. Therefore, I looked around the classroom and tried to find someone who did not have a partner yet. Finally, I grouped up with someone, but I found the process was quite interesting. Firstly, I noticed that those who already grouped with someone else tended to talk to their partners; therefore, they would not look around like I did. With this thought, I started to look for someone who looked around like I did. Finally I have discovered a classmate. However, we sat far from each other, it was hard to ask by language as it was impolite to shout in the classroom. Therefore, I pointed at myself and her and looked at her (I believe eye contact happened here). She nodded back at me. I was quite happy when we grouped up and have discovered that eye contact was useful under some circumstances, it helps people to communicate or reach an agreement while talking was not suitable.
After we grouped up, we decided to sat outside the classroom for the interview. I remembered there were many people sat around but they were all working or only chat with a tiny voice. We both lower our voice as well as we both felt it was not suitable to talk loudly. To hear her better, I creeped my body forward to my partner. The interview was the first time I got to chat with this classmate alone, I felt a bit nervous to be honest, and I can remembered I sat in the chair but my limbs were all unstretched. My classmate was at the interviewer position therefore she sat very straight, I could feel that she viewed this interview as a quite significant things. However, after 15 minutes, I felt that we both relieved from the nervous as I noticed that she started to lean her back on the seat back; and I also started to add on body movement while talking such as waving my arms.