Ethnography

Ethnography

October 26, 2015

Breakfast time

During my observation I switch to a new site but I’m still in the same building. This site that I’m currently at is similar to that of a cafeteria. While working at this site I focused on a group of three girls, a couple and two guys that were sitting in the same table as one another. Upon my arrival at the site I noticed the three girls sitting at one table, they seemed to be talking about a party that they most recently went to. The time of the day that I observed was at about 7:30 in the morning. The girls seemed to be very drowsy like, and were wearing very loose clothing such as that of sweats. When one of the girls left to go get some more food she seemed to have a hard time trying to get out of her seat and was walking very slowly. After she returned to her friends table she ended up just getting some cantaloupe. After staring at that group I observed the couple for a short while. The guy had a bro tank while the girl was a wearing a dress. He had a long board with him too and wore his cap backwards. He ended up getting eggs and sausage links for breakfast while she got oatmeal and yogurt. While watching them the guy seemed to be very quite compared to his girlfriend. After she was done talking about her classes the guy ended up making a joke about one of her professors. After his joke they both continued eating together. After watching the couple I saw these two guys eating together. One of the guys was extremely sweaty and his hair was extremely chaotic looking, his friend on the other hand seemed well groomed .After watching them I noticed that the well groomed guy was only eating honeydew melon and a muffin for breakfast, while his friend was having big breakfast consisting of potatoes, sausage, eggs, yogurt, bacon and a bagel. The guy that was well groomed I noticed was chewing with his mouth open after some time his friend looked up at him and asked him if he could close his mouth while he ate. After that they resumed to eat and I looked back at both the couple and the group of girls. One of the girls from the group finished before the other two and started to just play around with her fork and talked to her friends that were still eating. The friend that had more input than the other of course finished last. After the two girls were done with their conversation, the one that was finished just starting looking at her phone .I then turned my attention to the couple and noticed that the girl was still talking about her professors. She then stated how much she disdained one of her professors since all he did was giving out pop quizzes. She then said that the classes’ averages were also pretty terrible. Her boyfriends just nodded his head and agree with everything she said. Afterwards, I saw the group of girls leave the site and noticed that they seemed in a hurry since they were speed walking pretty fast. I then looked back at the two guys and noticed that the well groomed one was done with his meal and that he was talking about how Patriots barely defeated the jets. He then asked his friend if NMSU won the game against Troy University and his friend simply stated that we lost badly and that the score didn’t matter. After they were done talking about the game the guys ended up leaving .Before they left I noticed that one of them had a coffee cup in one of his hands. After observing the guys leaving, I then looked back at the couple and noticed that guy finished his meal before his girlfriend, which wasn’t surprising since she was talking most the time. The girl then talked about some girl in her group that she thought wasn’t doing any of the group work since they started a group project together. She was talking about that girl until she left the site.

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