Friday, February 6, 2009

First class/ First Experience of Interpersonal Communication

Date: 15 January 2009 (15.01.2009)
Day: Thursday
Time: 9.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.
First day of class won't be "fun" without the introductions as for sure there will be some funny self introduction as in Yee Chern's case.
Miss Cheryl's teaching method is not hard to understand as her teaching is very much based on real case studies. As an example, when she tried to help us understand why communication is done in every way and not just by conversation; she told us that we ADP-ians were referred as noise by others. For those who don't know ADP-ians will think that we are a bunch of monkeys that produce a lot of voice pollution, and it's because our actions, dressings, and speaking tone that gives others a perception of who we are although that might not be true. That is why we should never ever judge a book by its cover!
Later, Miss Cheryl requested each of us to write 5 random things or habits that is obvious about us on a piece of paper. Besides that, we had to write down a another few more things that our friends do not know about us on another piece.That was just like writing down our little secrets that was never revealed before.
After everyone is done, papers were sticking all over the place in the classroom. Miss Cheryl gave us some time to read over all those papers on the wall and then we had to read out loud what we write about ourselves. In this way, all of us can know well about each other.
The best part was Miss Cheryl collected all those papers and read those out. We had to make contribution as well, that was to guess whose paper was that. All of us enjoyed that session very much!! Time flies when you're having fun. That's what happened on our first class, we don't get the change to guess all those secret owner of the second paper.
We observed that when we were guessing on the owner for the second paper, we tend to forget that what was written on the second paper is those personalities of ours that others don't know. However, we often guess the people that we think they might be just because they fulfill the personalities on the second paper.
From the first class, we learned that human will judge people from what they see and sometimes we even take things for granted. We human might think that what we see in our friends might be the true them. Other than that, we also learned that sometimes when we look at someone we will judge someone from our first impresion. So, a lot of conflicts and misunderstandings can happened through that. At the end, the main conclusion of our first class is don't ever judge others by their appearance.

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