SOCIAL MEETING ASSIGNMENT
Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 15:11
Sentence 1- I hoped that the meeting would go well.
I'm normally a fairly outgoing person so I was not super nervous but since these are people that I'm going to work with this semester I was hoping to leave a good first impression and hopefully get a better understanding of who they were. I met Nikklas and Nathan in the library on the first floor, so it wasn't the most social of settings (we definitely were not going to be drinking beer) and I was a few minutes late so I felt that I didn't exactly start off on the strongest note.
Sentence 2- Germany was a large part of our conversation.
Nikklas is from Germany, so I think that Nathan and I were curious to discuss why he chose to come to the U.S., what kind of beer was most popular there, the current political system as well as what he thought of our own domestic politics. We learned that he came to the U.S. for school as well as the soccer team, that they mostly drink warm beer in Germany (even though we all agreed cold was best) and that a lot of Europeans think we're very interesting people.
Sentence 3- I didn't want there to be any lulls in conversation.
I think anyone who meets a new acquaintance wants the conversation to flow smoothly without awkward silences or lulls in the discussion. Though I tried to come equipped with my best conversation starters I learned that awkward pauses or silences are ultimately inevitable. We had a few throughout the entire discussion, however, I think it went a lot better than we all expected- though some beers would have probably made it a lot better.
I'm normally a fairly outgoing person so I was not super nervous but since these are people that I'm going to work with this semester I was hoping to leave a good first impression and hopefully get a better understanding of who they were. I met Nikklas and Nathan in the library on the first floor, so it wasn't the most social of settings (we definitely were not going to be drinking beer) and I was a few minutes late so I felt that I didn't exactly start off on the strongest note.
Sentence 2- Germany was a large part of our conversation.
Nikklas is from Germany, so I think that Nathan and I were curious to discuss why he chose to come to the U.S., what kind of beer was most popular there, the current political system as well as what he thought of our own domestic politics. We learned that he came to the U.S. for school as well as the soccer team, that they mostly drink warm beer in Germany (even though we all agreed cold was best) and that a lot of Europeans think we're very interesting people.
Sentence 3- I didn't want there to be any lulls in conversation.
I think anyone who meets a new acquaintance wants the conversation to flow smoothly without awkward silences or lulls in the discussion. Though I tried to come equipped with my best conversation starters I learned that awkward pauses or silences are ultimately inevitable. We had a few throughout the entire discussion, however, I think it went a lot better than we all expected- though some beers would have probably made it a lot better.