Ethnography

Ethnography

October 1, 2014

The Loud Talk

"Just get him out of bed!" the man said. The people around him are confused and curious of his frustrated phone call. He seems to be angry by the way he is speaking, "Get up. Now!"

"All you have to do is pick him up. Get him off the bed!" the man continued.

The boys behind him were softly giggling. Making fun of him, I suppose. Not so mature of a University. The boys have a short length hair cut, with a light blue T-Shirt and black pants. They are typing on the computer with some conversation going on. One of the boys phone makes a noise and is picked up. A video is played. I can hear the music of the video from my side of the table.

One of the boys gets a message, "Dude! Oh my god, No way" he says with laugh. The other young man seems to pay no attention to him because he is working on his work.

The man gets a phone call.

"Hello?" He says. The man gets up from his table and walks away into the bookshelves to take the call. Five minutes later the man walks up to his table again and takes a seat. I look at the mans clothing, seems modern. He is wearing a old faded red button up shirt, with black and blue stripes. The man has a dark blue baseball cap on with a green scarf around his neck.

Both boys get up from the table, and make their way out of the building remaining their conversation with laughter.

Two young ladies sitting on the right side of my table, work together on their class assignment. One of the ladies has a red pull over sweater with denim jeans and brown sandals. Red girl is checking her phone constantly while she is on the Internet in her personal laptop.

The other girl, is wearing a black sweater with denim jeans and black sandals. This girl has glasses and is reading an article on Child Abuse. Glass girl talks to Red girl about the assignment. But later, they get into personal problems within their families. From my understanding, they must be close friends due to their long talks.

I pay close attention to the language these two young girls speak. It is a common language of course. The girls speak in both Spanish and English. I assume Red Girl's first language is Spanish because when she talks to Glass Girl in English, she speaks it with a unique accent. Her English is a little off, but understandable.

A student entered the building and walked straight to the Information Desk to ask for help. He was wondering where the classroom in this building is. The lady at the desk showed him the way.

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