Ethnography

Ethnography

November 9, 2015

Friends aren't always needed around

There seems to be less and less people as it comes closer to the end of the semester, and the people that do stay don’t stay as long as they usually do. Causing more tables to be empty around me.
There is a girl sitting by herself wearing a light tan sweater. She has a notebook out on the table along with her backpack, jacket, keys, and coffee. She is currently on here phone and as she is on her phone, she shakes her leg. She then looks around and takes a sip of her coffee. Then she scratches her head, packing her things and gets ready to leave as I look over. I just sat down as all of this happened in the matter of minutes.

There is another girl by herself in a blue sweatshirt. Blue has also has coffee on the table, her laptop, and her notebook. Blue is typing and then begins to read what she wrote to herself as I can see her mouthing the words. Blue then begins to edit what she was writing. Her posture is a bit hunched over on the computer but she seems relaxed. Blue then makes a face as she reads something off her paper. Blue then begins to start typing again. She then takes a break and begins to look at her phone for a while before she goes back to typing. A few moments later, a friend of hers with wavy hair joins her. Since Wavy joins she has stopped typing to listen to what she has to say. Wavy begins to eat her apples and Blue goes back to typing. Wavy then begins to move her chair and the computer is moved so both of them can see the computer screen. It’s as though blue want Wavy to edit her paper. But Wavy is on her phone and blue keeps looking at her and then the screen. Wavy then begins to read something off her phone to Blue, probably discussing the paper Blue has just written and talking about the rubric or things she needed help on. The work on the paper then continues.

To my left there is a couple, a girl wearing a camouflage jacket and a guy in the grey sweatshirt, the reasoning for why they are dating is because they’re sharing food, and before they got to the table they kissed. Grey seemed to have bought something as he plays with that box. When Camo is called for her food, she leaves and he just looks back at her. When Camo comes back with the food, she continues to eat her food, and Grey eats the food that she came back with. They begin to start talking as they take bite of the bagel. Grey changes his posture and leans forward, he says something to make camo laugh. The emotions shown on both their faces are mutual and neutral. Grey is shaking his legs, and they seemed to be making small talk. In the middle of the conversation, grey scratches his nose. Grey begins to leave and camo doesn’t want him to leave as she reaches for his arms and he turns around. They talk and then he leaves to go get more food, leaving Camo by herself. Camo looks at her receipt as she has nothing else to do. She then begins to take another bite of her food. Camo then spots crumbs on the table and wipes then off and then reaches for her phone. As she waits for Grey, she looks through her phone to make time pass. Camo then looks at the way that Grey left, probably being in her view from where he went. Camo looks that way for a while before she goes back to looking at her phone. Camo then takes a sip of her coffee and looks around, moving her phone on the table. Grey comes back to the table and that causes Camo to have a smile on his face and she puts her phone down to talk to him. Grey begins to eat again and his leg shaking begins again. Camo begins talking and grey begins to nod to show that he’s listening. He also makes little comments to what she has to say. They continue to eat and talk.


As they hour goes back, it begins to crowd because lunch time is around. But there are still a lot of people by themselves. 

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