Today I had lots of !!!!!!! exclamation marks popping up in my head when Rab "got mad" at us. Somehow I totally missed all of his winking signals...! I loved how Miki thought he just had something in his eye, hahaha.
I also like how we seem to learn things through experience in class. Instead of receiving an explanation first and then going through examples, many a time we're put on the spot, having to think on our feet, and then after some panic or confusion, we receive an explanation... and it sinks in. Even though I felt alarmed when Rab seemed to be angry today, his point about perceptions and the mind switching off its attention span as soon as it senses a certain direction in someone's story came across very clearly.
... and I need to be careful about getting to class on time and not procrastinating.
Talking about miscommunications/ misunderstandings between people of different cultures was very interesting too. Did you know a kind of snapping/waving fingers gesture is seen as a nonverbal way of suggesting, "What the f***?!" in Venezuela? (Yumi) Or that it's rude to sleep in a car in New Zealand? (Asami) Those were just two of the things I learned from my group discussion. I'd better go read the rest now and get enough sleep today!
Good Night!
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I forgot to mention our second personality test. I thought today's test was less accurate than yesterday's in the sense that depending on our culture, we may have stronger/weaker connotations of one symbol representing something. The water signifying one's father, for example, may be a more familiar image in areas where people often go outside with their father to do outdoor activities. Oh and maybe depending on that person's mood, the drawings may turn out to be very different as well.
However, I've heard that a depiction of a tree is very accurate when trying to figure out a person's personality. When I entered my junior high in Osaka, my school counselor had asked us all to draw a single tree. Though I never learned about what my tree showed about me, today's lesson reminded me of that experience... Despite it seeming less accurate, drawing may actually be a very reliable source since counselors seem to use it too.
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