When I entered the class room today(sorry for being late...), the mood was tensed.
Everyone was quiet and serious, writing some words down.
Kaya told me that Rab is angry and that he told us to write down five adjectives that describe him. We all wrote down some negative words like mad, angry, furious, irritated, upset, and dissapointed.
However, actually he was acting as if he was mad and he also had winked to some people to show that he was joking.
I didn't realize that and interpreted as he was mad by just looking at part of his attitude.
He told us that this is an example of nonverbal misinterpretation.
love Rab's way of teaching.
Then we did another psychological test.
It was a drawing type test.
It was pretty right but this was not as accurate as the last one because I think our experience affect what we draw. For example, I drew my old house where I lived in the US, when I was told to draw a house. Also, I think it depends on the ability of drawing, that I drew straight snake because I didn't know how to draw a coiled one.lol
Then we had some group discussions on the six stumbling blocks (Barna).
I think I have a lot of cases that I experienced these blocks but I could come up with only some of them... I've experienced a lot of them especially in Venezuela, where had a big cultural difference. For example, Venezuelan people thought I could speak Spanish fluently even if I am Japanese, and they just kept on talking to me in spanish really fast and never tried to slow down...this is assumption of similarities. Of course I had language differences there too.
When I came back home, I was looking at some pictures of my Venezuelan friends that were uploaded. Then my family were watching a documentary on TV about Venezuelan guiana mountains and I really felt like visiting there.
Today was a day that I remembered about Venezuela a lot of times, now I really wanna go there again, I'm kind of homesick now. :(
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