Communication

I love communication! All kinds, from all people, I just love the human ability to "impart or interchange thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs". Over the last week or so, I have been seeing a lot of different types of communication, and I have been noticing the power of communication.

The last week, besides being filled with communication, was good and busy. Every day beginning on Monday, ending Sunday, I will have had some form of ballet. Most of the "practice" has been watching the rehearsal, taking notes, and then going over the steps myself later. The "funnest" part, thus far, has been the parent's dance in the party scene at the beginning of the ballet. Most of the dance is fairly simple, but right before the end of the dance, insanity breaks out. See the picture for explaination of what happens that is so crazy. The men (small narrow arrows) walk counter-clockwise, and every third step we hold up a hand. The women (red arrows) walk the other way and do the same thing. Not that hard, except the music is very fast paced, and we need to run in order to stay in time with the music. Watching all the ballet this week, I realized that all the girls are communicating in one of the most difficult ways possible, and it continues to amaze me.

When I first applied to be a student guide at the MBA, one of the main requirements was the ability to communicate on many different levels in many different situations. Today was an intresting chance to study how different people communicate. I have many diverse personalities on my shift team, and watching how the personalities of those people effect their communication style was fascinating. Noticing those variations made me think, "What are all the factors that effect how people communicate?" I would love to hear from you readers (all 3) about what you think.

The car (which still needs a name) was covered with a tarp on Thursday.

Tommorow holds: ballet conditioning class, a trip to the local amusment park, and I'm sure something else I don't know about..

My cool things are: Gmail's new theme option (I am currently using "Shiny"), Slang Flashcards, which help people like me, slightly nerdy, very white, to be cool, and Google Trends, which shows the most searched terms or phrases in the last few hours. The information included is not only the term, but similar terms, peak of searches, and location with heaviest concentration of searches. #1 right now, "shop around lyrics". Most of the top 3 are usally pretty shallow, but every once in a while, something cool can come up.

That's all for now, maybe an update after Gilroy Gardens tommorow!
Thanks for listening to my communication.
Final question for you, what are ways of communication? I mean all of them.