Intercultural Communicative Competence Blog #8
Going into this trip I didn't know anyone and knew I would make some friendships in the process. The first friendly interaction was formed during our first initial Spice meaning. I sat next to Dan and didn't really know what to think of him at the time. Once we introduced ourselves to the class we all seemed to have common interest in the places we wanted to go to. Having common interest is an important part of the friendship making process after that class most of the social interaction was via texting. Through texting there were suggestions of specific places we wanted to go to. Since we didn't know each other very well I think it was hard to schedule permanent trips, but that was okay we thought on our feet which ended up working out and this was entertaining, since we were spontaneous. I had different interpersonal conversations with everyone on the trip. My conversations with Taylor and Sarah were mostly about our ...