Communicatoin Assignment #1

It's a good opportunity for a conversation with whom I didn't know.

Summary of Interview

Interviewee: Grace, 19 year old, sophomore in Violin Performance, Pennstate University.

Where: on the street

Date: 09/13/2009

Time: about 2’30’’

a. Interviewee has an experience in making a conversation with some she didn’t know. She asked someone to borrow the pencil, which is the starting conversation with whom she didn’t know.

b. It depends on person with whom she shakes hands.

c. She rarely used the expression of “ How do you do?”. She would rather use the “How are you doing?”.

d. When she reaches out someone to shake hands, she stands up. Causally, she waits they sit down.

e. She lately began a conversation with someone in the Starbucks where she used to work with computer. Someone who was interested in her work struck up a conversation with her.

f. Complaints about Professor, homework, or “how’s work” are good materials to strike up classmates she didn’t know well.

g. Between me and someone I don’t know, there are common things found such as complaints about service, applying for same requests, etc.

h. When I paid my apartment rent fee in Bursar, they didn’t accept credit or debit card. Worker there told me to follow someone who had same problem. On the way to other building with that guy to tackle the ploblem, we had short conversation about complaints of why they didn’t accept the debit card, where we are living something like that.