REFLECTION - FIRST QUARTER
The first quarter of English 6 involved discussions surrounding the communication process. I really had no idea that the models and visual representations of it could become very complex (like Barnlund’s model). I don’t think I ever ended up fully mastering the ones we discussed.
I particularly remember the skit we had to do about communication barriers. The scenario given to our group depicted a job interview wherein the applicant had an accent which made the interviewers struggle in understanding what was being said. None of us in the group had any idea of which accent to use and who would be speaking. I could do a pretty okay British accent but it was understandable and therefore wouldn’t be a communication barrier. Nash suggested Irish, because at some point we ended up talking about Saoirse Ronan and how she speaks. For the first three periods of that day (Research time, we had nothing to do), I spent my time trying to learn the accent as much as I could by reading random tweets on my timeline while attempting to sound Irish.
I think no one knew it was an Irish accent, and I think that everyone thought I was supposed to have a mouth problem with the way I was speaking. It looked that way because it was hard to make certain sounds and I had to shape my mouth that way to make them. Overall, it was pretty fun, I just wish I did a better job with the way I spoke.
I also had a lot of fun when we had that activity about the tripartite being. I really didn’t know what to expect, because I wasn’t sure what people saw in and thought of me. I was very surprised at all the sweet things people wrote under the “body” section, the comments made me feel really good about myself. When it came to the “spirit” section, Nash was the only one who wrote there (I think Gab and Rielo were absent, they’re the only other people in that room who know me on that level). I was so touched by everything he wrote there, mostly because I didn’t think that he paid much attention to how I was or cause I didn’t know that he saw me that way. To be honest, I got a little teary-eyed because some of the things he wrote there were just so… true. Sometimes I feel like no one really sees me, the things I do and the effort I put into being the friend I am to them. It was really, really nice to know that he did. What I wrote in the “spirit” section were my basic beliefs and morals that shaped me as a person. At first, I wasn’t sure of what to write, but when I wrote down the simplest, most basic thing I believed in, it became easier to write more. The class ended up discussing things such as religion, and it was nice to know that there were people like me who weren’t entirely sure of the whole Catholicism thing but believed in a higher, supreme being.
Overall, I really enjoyed this quarter and I’m looking forward to what the next one will be like!