I went shopping with my sisters today and one of our stops was the mall. There is a lot of people there who seem different from other people. They may act weird or dress weird and you never know what to think of them until you get to know them. There was a girl working at one of the stores we went into and she seemed like the type of girl who thinks shes better than everyone else because of the way she dressed and acted. When we were looking around, she came up to us and started a conversation and she turned out to be really nice and outgoing. We had the wrong perception of the girl and now we know that she was actually pretty cool!

I've been at home a lot by myself and it gets really boring, so yesterday my mom said she was going to Rochester and I told her I wanted to go with. She said she would wait for me to get done working so that I could go. I even texted her at work reminding her to wait for me. Somehow there was a miscommunication error and when I got home, she had already left. I was upset and because I had to stay home again by myself and when I asked her why she left without me, she said she couldn't remember if I wanted to go or not..

We are talking about good information with our groups about using the internet online. There are a lot of ways to stay safe online and there is a lot of do's and don'ts. Don't put any personal information about yourself online and be careful who you talk to. Don't add people as a Facebook friend if you don't know who they are. It is okay to add your friends and share pictures with them, but be careful because those friends can take your pictures and share them with other people. Always remember to log out of your accounts before getting off your computer or cell phone. Anyone could get into your account and steal your information if your not careful enough. I think only kids older than about 16 should be allowed to have a Facebook , Twitter, etc. Young kids don't know much about internet safety and they are the ones who tend to use personal information online. 

Jody Holloway was a very entertaining guest speaker. I have seen him twice before the presentation he did for our clasd and I still think he is interesting to watch. He talked about a lot of stuff we learned in class. He talked about feedback and the different ways of it. Feedback can be verbal or nonverbal. My favorite part was when he was showing how important body language, verbal variety, and words are. He taught us in a fun way and it really made sense. What he said about it was very true. All three of those are important in communication. Its hard to communicate if you cant hear someone so words are important. Someone can say the same thing in two different ways and make it mean two different things so you have to be careful on how you say the sentence. It's also hard to concentrate on the speaker if you can't see them or they could be really boring and just stand in one spot to teach. Overall, Jody was a very good presenter and I would recommend him coming again next year!

The video we watched about the artist who drew people as they see themselves and how others see them was very meaningful and had a good connection with what we talked about during class. It resembled the Johari Window because the people on the video didn't see special characteristics about themselves that other people saw. It's sad that there are people who don't see themselves as a beautiful person and I think the results on the video changed a lot of perpective on what the people thought about themselves. I have read a fun fact before that says a person sees themselves five times "less beautiful" than what others see them. I think people should see themselves as beautiful as everyone else.

I watched a movied called Frozen, not the Disney movie. In the movie, there was a really good example of miscommunication. Three young adults wanted to go skiing one more time as the employee was closing the ski lift up for the week. There were three other people going down who were the last ones. These three young adults convinced the guy to let them on. It was dark and cold. After they got on, the guy was called into the boss's office, so he told another guy that there were three left and then shut it down. The guy seen the other three people come down and thought they were the last ones, so he turn the ski lift and lights off. He didn't know the guy was talking about the three young adults. They were stuck up on the skii lift for three or four days and two of them died. The two workers should have been paying more attention and communicated properly or that would of never happened. The first worker should of gave the other one more details about who was still skiing.

Physical Noise

We have talked about the different types of noises in class and did a helpful activity on it. I have experienced physical noise over the weekend. As my mom and I were watching a movie in our living room, the smoke alarms started to go off. They went off because heat from the shower upstairs got into the alarm and set them off. It interrupted our movie and it took about five minutes to get the alarms to stop beeping. I'm just glad that the alarms weren't going off because my house was on fire! 

Since the quarter has started, we have been learning some interesting information. Learning about all of the different ways of communicating is helpful and its prepares us for our social lives. We are starting to learn about the Johari Window and how it works. It lets us in on what we may or may not know about ourselves and what others may or may not know about us. We can start realizing characteristics about ourselves that we may have just learned we have. I like the activity we are doing to go along with the Johair Window. I think that it is nice to see what others say about us and what they think about us. I hope that we get to keep doing these interesting topics and fun activities for the rest of the quarter.

Communication is very important in life. It is especially important if you work at a job that requires good communication. I am a waitress at Prairie Meadows and I see a lot of bad communication between the residents and even our manager. When working with food, you need to have really good communication so that you don't mess up your orders on what we need to buy for food or what the residents want to eat for that day. If we have bad communication with the residents while taking their order, they will get angry if they didn't get what they wanted. Our manager is not a very good communicator either. She will tell us employees what to do, and then she will get mad if we don't do it right because she says she didn't mean it in the way she told us. It gets complicated when the employees don't communicate well with each other. It's also bad communication when the manager tells us to do something, and the boss tells us not to do that. Either way, we'll get in trouble for it because none of us understands what to do. There is a lot of things that go wrong down in the kitchen because the communication didn't get transferred well enough.