Relationships

So this friend of mine is having problems with his girlfriend. She is still in High School and he is in his first semester of college. They have been having major issues because of the lack of communication between the two of them. They have recently broken up and he is really upset and is trying to give her some space, even if she doesnt want it. Now, dont take me wrong, I'm not sidding with her, but I'm only getting one side of the story, and I am trying to look at the situation as a whole. I have noticed that communication is few and far between with this couple and I believe that this is the main problem with them. A relationship will not survive without constant communication.

Movies in a new perspective

Tonigh I had a movie night with my brother, and we watched Night At the Roxbury for the millionth time. Only this time, I paid alot of attention to the communication within the movie. Nonverbal is pretty dominate if you think about it. The way that Doug treats Steve is pretty adiment in the fact that Steve feels obligated to do the things that Doug does and think the way that he does. For example, in the movie when Emily is asking Steve out, he seems intrested, until Doug comes along and blows Emily off. Steve immediatly follows Doug and tells Emily that he has other things to do. I just though that this was interesting and added "a little spice" to the evening.

Group Projects

In my education class, I am in a group with 4 other people. With this group, we have to give a presentation over a book and socio-economics within a classroom. We will present this in a few days and we are in the final process of putting all of our information together. One member in our group has decided to put everything together if everyone sends her all of their information. We are still waiting on one persons info, after we had mentioned to him repeeatedly that all we are waiting on is this specific information. Somewhere, somehow communication was lost or something. He still hasnt sent any info, or contrubited to the project in any creative way. We have spoken with this individual several times, emailed several times, and still nothing! We have used verbal and nonverbal communication, and are not getting through! What great help!

Upset Customer

In the state of Missouri, a retail store cannot sell over two otc cold medicines to the same person in one day. I work retail, and sell a lot of cold medicines and we have signs posted telling the costomer the law above the medicine section. Today I had a costomer who wanted to buy three different cold medications. I told the customer that by law I could only sell her two of the three. She got a little irritated, and I can see her point. She asked me what she was suppose to because she had an entire family that was sick, and two bottles wouldn't last but a couple of days. I apologized and told that I understood how she felt. The whole time she was pretty mad, you could hear it in her voice. She apologized and said that she understood why I couldn't sell it to her. She wasn't too convincing. I thought this was a great example of communication. Both verbally and nonverbally.

Speeches

On Tuesday, we gave speeches in Oral Communications class. It was the first speech that we were assigned and for the most part, I think that it went very well. There was a lot of nonverbal elements that many people gave to their audience. For instance, you could really tell those who were nervous because little eye contact was made. And what was made, was to a select few. Granted, I was scared out of my mind! But, I looked at everyone in the audience and I thought that I did a real good job hiding how I really felt in front of everyone. I got an A- on the speech, and my peers said that I did really well and they said that I did not come across 'nervous'. So I think that I hid that element rather well. As for communication, normal gestures were quite present yesterday, in those who acted like they were comfortable ;)

Mind Your Business!!

I saw on Fox News earlier where people were making a big deal about the latest pregnancy amongst well known people - "Sen. Palin's 17 yr old daughter is pregnant." I can see why people are making a fuss over it when Palin was announced McCain's running mate, but seriously, what is so wrong with this specific 17 yr old getting pregnant when there are several young girls much younger than 17 having babies? I think people should just mind their own business and find out what their own daughters have been up to, instead of worrying about Palin's daughter. Its not like she's running for office!