I have interacted with two of my four team members and it looks like we are in good shape to do this project. The title indicates that if we put together the pieces we have learned so far from readings and class overall, then we will be able to put the project together. We will work well together because I believe that each one of us has harnessed some learned aspect of what we have learned from the past readings we recently did. I have expressed in a very early posting that I noticed how I communicate easiest by conveying my own experiences in order to get my point across to my interlocutor(s) and <a href=”http://aplaceinspace.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/nexting-and-being-nexted-what-we-exhale-becomes-us/#comment-1278″>Jimigarcia27</a> wrote in his nexting response this, “…putting emotions into words is important but as far as interacting with strangers there isn’t a need to be expressing that much emotion. It is important to share personal experiences to express what you’ve been through but I don’t think it is necessary to share the most personal of emotions.”. I think that I will be able to identify with jimigarcia27 and easily be able to contribute to whatever he contributes to the discussion. While jimigarcia said emotion will not be a big factor in the project, <a href=http://aplaceinspace.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/nexting-and-being-nexted-what-we-exhale-becomes-us/#comment-1282>Sports08</a> says that expression of emotions within the group will be important because we are all strangers. I agree with sports because we can not see each other so we have no feel for how each others’ intentions are when saying something. While I identify more with the experiential approach than the emotional approach I see where sports is coming from by reiterating that we are in fact strangers in a virtual classroom. It will be cool to see at the end of the group project how the conversations flowed when looking at them as a whole and to see if our original predictions of our group chemistry and communication hold up.
“Quiet Down Mr. Brady, It’s Time to Learn Football” July 16, 2008
This past month I have discovered the wonderful world of football or rather “soccer” as it is called here in the United States. I am a hospitality major and currently work at three business hotels just outside Boston and as a result, I have the opportunity to interact with people from all over the world. The week after the spring semester ended I went back to work and the UEFA European Cup Championship was on for the next week or so. These business people from outside the U.S. would convene around the big screen in the lobby and actively watch the games. I also accredit my newfound knowledge of football to the FIFA video game on XBOX 360. My best friend and I started playing the game as a joke after work during the Euro Cup. We made fun of the game more than we scored goals for about two weeks. My partaking in cyber-soccer matches spurned my interest to follow the Euro Cup a little bit and talk to some of my international guests about the sport. I found out that people from all over the world are more passionate about their football teams than they are about most other things in life. I could tell just by talking to both my international co-workers as well as guests that soccer is no joke. There are more professional teams than imaginable and virtually every country in the world bleeds for their football team during international play seemingly with the exception of the United States. The unprecedented level of passion among fans combined with the level of intricacy of the game itself truly is fascinating from the outside. Football is so different from what American sports are and has provided something new and exciting for me to explore.
