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Being put into a room of total strangers can be hard for some people, others can just fit in with out really a thought to it. Now what can be harder for the people not feeling comfortable is being told to interview one these people and asking questions about them about other people.

When it came to the interview session, i would have say the easiest part of the whole thing was the interdict one. For one, I could freely ask the questions and not worry about the response of the person or if they would judge me. Mostly due to i am shy person who hates asking people I have never met a personal action. With the indirect one, one can ask for the information with out worry of being judged by that person. Also, it works faster and I can straight to the point if need be. Just sticking to the more to the top level of information.

The hardest of the whole interview is the face to face one. I have this worry of being judged by that person on how i look, pose or talk. Not wanting to come off a wrong way or insulting that person by what i ask. With this mind frame, I fall back into a very shy kind of role with the person. Asking only the basics of that person, everyday stuff they might do or other. It just makes me feel a bit out of place asking someone I just met questions about their life! It forces me into a place I don't like, in which I must talk to people. This kind of social setting is not my comfort zone so to say.

In the ways this exercise illiterates one thing in book it touched on, the Liner Model. In the interview one of us acted as a sender, the other a channel for the message sent to the receiver. Thats how it worked out, each of us seem to play that part at point or the other with the interviewing process. Also along with the more common idea of the transactional processes, the sharing of information in a class room setting. We where able to speak and share information with with peers we might not normally speak too out side of the class room. Everyone was forced into a kind of packed for a little while in the sharing of the information, which meant we had to work in a cohesiveness set. Teaming up to share our info with the other person. What also might have come into play of this exchange is the setting or environment of the class room. Who or where we come from is left at door in the setting of a class room, we nothing more then students. Having these roles slip into place, one might be able to speak and confer in a more free like speech then outside of the room. A kind of communication climate for all who enter. In which did help people outside of their zone relax and be in the room with out much of a worry.
Mostly, this whole thing was a ice breaker for everyone. Letting us know of what kind of class we are in and getting to know the people around us who are going to be lisenting to us through the term. How it all ends will be up to the people, and the teacher.