Ethnography

Ethnography

October 19, 2014

Commet Coins


ITS 6:47

 

sTART BUCKS IS FULL there is still alittle bit of light shining through the gloomy cloud.

 

THERE ARE ALOT OF STUDENTS BUT NOT ALL WORKING

 

THE LARGE TABLE FULL OF PEOPLE OF ALSORTS OF AGES. THERE IS ABOUT 10 PEOPLE. ONLY TWO PEOPLE ARE DRINKING COFFEE. iT APPEARS TO BE AN aa MEETING. THEY ALL SIT QUUIETLY AND LISTEN TO EACHOTHER. EVERYONCE IN A WHILE ANOTHER WILL CHIME IN POLIELY AGREEING WITH THE PERSON SPEAKING. THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT ND EVEN THOUGH THEY ALL SEEM TO BE GETTING ALONG NONE OF THEM SEEM LIKELY TO BE FRIENDS. oNE PERSON SEEMES TO BE MEDITATING THE GROUP. THERE IS A HEIRARCHY WITHIN THE GROUP. THEY TALK ABOUT WHO IS A "NEWBIE" AND WHO IS A VERTERAN. tHE NEWBIES SEEM TO BAND TOGETHER AND SO DO THE VERTERANS. THEY ARE ALL SUPER RELIHOUS. THEY ATTEND DIFFERENT CHURCHS AND ARE OPEN TO ONES DIFFERENT THAN THEIRS. eVERY FEW MINS THEY BREAK OF TO GROUPS WITH SMALL SHORT CONVERSATIONS AND THEN THE RECONVINE. THE ENTIRE TIME THEY ARE THERE THEY  DO THIS PERIODICALLY. mOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE GROUP ARE  STUDENTS. THE ONOES WHO ARENT STUDENTS ARE ALUMINI OF VARRIOUS COLLEGES AROUND THE STATES WHO HAVE FOUND THERE WAY SOME HOW TO NEW MEXICO. ONE GIRL HAS ONLY BEEN IN THE STATE FOR 3 WEEKS. THEY ALL CHIME IN TO OFFER THEUR HELP. SHE THANKS THEM FOR THEIR HELP AND OTHER CHIES IN TO SAY THAT THEY ARE LIKE A TIGHT KNIT SUPPORTIVE  FAMILY. THEY NOISLY LEAE ALL HUGGING EACHOTHER AND WISHING THEM SAFE DRIVES HOME.

 

THE FURNITURE HAS ONCE AGAIN BEEN MOVED AROUND. THE LARGE TABLE IS STIL PARRALELL TO THE BAR. THE WALLS HAVE BEEN LINED BY THE COOMFY CHAIRS AND SMALL COFFEE TABLES. THE TALL TABLES HAVE BEEN MOVED BY THE FIRE  PLACE SO THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER BY THE ENTRENCE. THE SMALL TABLES ARE NOW BY THE ENTRANCE PARRALLEL TO THE LARGE TABLE. THERE IS ONE FULL TABLE LINED AGAINST THE WALL.

 

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THERE ARE NOT MANY COMPUTERS TODAY THEIR ARE ONLY TWO AND SURPRINSINGLY NIETHER IS A MAC

 

A sPANISH TEACHER SITS IN ONE OF THE COMFY CHAIRS LOCATED NEAR A CORNOR.THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY TWO SLIGHTLY OLDER ADULTS, ONE MALE AND THE OTHER FEMALE. THEY DO NOT LLIKE THE SMALL TABLE SO THEY DRAG ONE OF THE SMILGHTLY LARGER TABLES THAT ARE LOCATED NEAR THE FRONT. THEY ALL SIT SIT DRINKING THEIR DRINKS ( ALL COLD) NONE OF THEM TALK WITH ONE ANOTHER AND THEY ARE ALL ENGULFED IN WHAT THEY ARE READING. AFTER A SHORT WHILE THEY ALBEGIN TO SPEAK. THEY SPEAK IN SPANISH THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT A CLASS THEY ARE ALL TAKING. SHE ASK ABOUT HOW THE GUYS PAPER IS MOVING ALONG. THEY  ALL SEEM TO BE WRITTING THE SAME PAPER. THEIR CONVERSATION DRINFT FROM THEIR WORK TO WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE TO DO DURING THE WINTER BREAK.

 

THERE IS A TABLE OF STUDENTS ACTUALLY STUDYING THEY HAVE THEIR BOOKS OUT AND SPREAD AROUND THE TABLE. nONE OF THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER AND HAVE THEIR EARBUDS PLUGGED IN AND LISTENING TO  MUSIC.

 

A GIRL WHO JUST WALKED IN HOLDS AN HP LAPTOP. SHE HAS HER OWN STARBUCKS TUMBLIR AND PROCEEDS TO ORDER HER DRINK THEN SITS DOWN AND OPENS HER LAPTOP AT THE TABLE NEXT TO ME. SHE BEINGS TO EDIT PICTURES WHILE SHE WAITS FOR HER DRINK. SHE HAS A NEWER TOUCH LAPTOP AND SHE USES THE FEATURE OFTEN WHILE WAITING. AFTER SHE GETS HER DRINK SHE SITS ANT CONTINURES HER WORK. SHE WORKS BETWEEN SEVERAL DIFFERENT PICTURES PERIODICALLY. SHE SEEMS TO BE WORKING WITH A GROUP OF PICTURES ALL OF THE SAME PERSON. SHE HAS THEM IN AN ORDER WHERE THEY ALL LOOK LIKE A COHERENT STORY. SHE HAS A BACK AND NOTE BOOK WITH PAPER SPEAD ACROSS THE SMALL  TABLE. SHE MUST BE A STUDENT WORKING ON PHOTOGRAPHY.

 

a GROUP OF THREE MALES WALKS IN. THEY ARE ALL HOLDING NOTHING BUT THEIR LAPTOPS. THEY ARE LOOK YOUNGER THEN EVERYBODY HERE. THEY ORDER THEIR DRINKS THEN MOVE ON TO SIT AT THE TABLE THAT IS AN EXTENSION OF THE BAR. THEY ALL OPEN UP THEIR LAPTOPS AND PLUG IN THEIR EARPHONES. ONE IMMEADIATLY GOES TO YOUTUBE AND PROCEEDS TO WATCH FUNNY VIDEOS OF PEOPLE FALLING AND ANIMALS DOING CUTE THINGS. THE OTHER TWO LOG ON TO THEIR WORL OF WARCRAFT ACCOUNTS AND BEGIN TO PLAY. tHE TWO TEENAGE MALES INTENSLY WATCH THEIR SCREEN WHILE THEY FEVERENTLY PRESS KEYS AND CLICK THE MOUSE.

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