Interpersonal Communication Scenarios

Describe each scenario. What is happening? Where is this taking place? Who is the interaction between?
The first scenario involves a romantic couple, they always come to class together and sit next to each other. The girl has said that she is in a relationship before when we had to do an activity, her boyfriend said something and she agreed with it and said “that’s mine” referring to the guy that always sits next to her. But even if she didn’t say that you could just tell that they are together. The situation that I observed was them sitting in class, they are paying attention to the powerpoint and taking notes but still paying attention to each other. They always seem to be touching each other in somewhere, the girl often puts her hand on …show more content…
The older man seemed to be a bible study leader and the male student seemed to be apart of his bible study group. They were having a one on one meeting in the common room of Sage Hall. The conversation was kind of awkward as well as the body language, the student seemed to be nervous and not sure how to answer the questions the older man was asking. I got the feeling he was afraid he might say the wrong thing. The older man would ask if he read a certain verse and the student wouldn’t know what to say and just answer with “yeah….”, the conversation was often stilted and there was a lot of awkward phases where either of them didn’t know what to say. They each sat across from each other and the only touching that went on was shaking hands when they first met, the student’s arms were crossed most of the time while the older man rested his arms on the table. Most of the talk was about religion and what was going on in the house that the boy lived in, the boy seemed to live in a house with all of the other bible study …show more content…
They seemed like strangers who were just meeting for the first time. But based on their conversation this was not there first meeting, although it may of been their first one on one meeting. Their conversation seemed forceful and not natural at all, I would think that if one of them never spoke to each other again it would matter to them much in the long run. Their body language was uncomfortable and I found myself thinking “Wow this is kind of awkward to observe.” at times. They really had no intimacy towards each other and I felt like the older man held the power, sometimes I thought that the younger man didn’t actually want to be there. The only time they touched was when they greeted each other by shaking hands, their conversation also lacked intimacy, it was very general and boring. “How are things at the house?” “Did you and the boys meet to do bible study in the morning?” Everything was very