Friday's experience

Communicating by only drawing illustrations on dry erase boards or acting my ideas through charades was a great learning tool that was very eye opening for me. It showed me how much we depend on our communication even for the small things we need to say or ask others. On friday I knew it was going to be a rough day right when I walked through the doors and picked up my dry erase board. The moaning and groaning of everybody picking it up was also another sign it was going to be a long day. The first rough example of communication that I experienced was figuring out if we had memory that day. I saw people studying their bibles but I thought that since we had the two snow-day's that we didn't have Memory work for Christian Faith. I tried to draw it out to my friends but they couldn't understand the illustration that I was drawing. As a result I gave up and didn't get the information I needed to know if we had memory. It turns out we did have memory and I didn't do so well on it. The form of communication was hard to do in between classes. I didn't have time to draw things out in the hall-way so I couldn't ask people important questions like: Is our spanish quiz hard today, do we have a history quiz or did it get postponed, or do we have homework do in this or that class. Simple questions that I would have no problem asking by speaking but very difficult by drawing or using charades. The day was fairly difficult just by making our means of communication more time consuming and forcing the people to take our drawing and make an assumption of what we hope that they will guess correctly what we were trying to draw or charade. The day was long and somewhat boring but a great learning experience.
One interesting experience that I had during the day that I could relate to the book was when I was trying to ask Mrs. Haupt if we had a History quiz today or was it moved to monday. I had to do this in between classes so I was on a short time span to illustrate or charade what I had to say to her. As I was drawing I thought that I was capturing the message somewhat clearly or understandable, however, as I looked up all I saw was this blank look on her face. Luckily she knew the circumstances we were under and had a list of things to say that we could have asked and the topic of the quiz came up and I was relieved to find out that we were taking it monday. This relates to the book because on pg.22 Postman discusses how everyones form of expression differs. This means that what someone knows to be truth may not be true for someone else. This relates to my situation because the illustration I drew I thought was accurate, but Mrs. Haupt had a different view on what I was drawing therefore she had no clue as to what I was drawing.