Darwin's Birthday

Today's class was rather original. Indeed, we were allowed to attend Darwin's birthday, which happened in the GSU. We were also given this special social assignment in which we had to interview the person who attended the event. We had to know why they were here, who they are and if everything goes well, why not ask for a diner some day...

 

So when we arrived at the GSU, there was a special improvisation show around Darwin. However, it was rather hard to understand everything. After the show, a cake was nicely offered by the GSU. And this was the opportunity for me to interview someone. Since I have a really good reason to talk to them, it wasn't that hard at all. My approach was:

 

"Hi, my names is Khai, we are given this special assignment. Do you have 3 min for an interview? " And bingo... I was able anchor a conversation.

 

With this approach, I was able to interview a group of 4 girls. However, their answers were rather short. And the interview didn't last too long. When you talk to someone, you can always tell whether the person feels like talking to you or not... In my case, I believe I didn't handle the conversation well. However, it is understandable since it is harder to maintain a nice conversation flow with 4 perfect strangers and my English skill for approaching a person isn't well developed enough. Anyway, there are here because their friend is in the music band and they wanted to watch their performance.

 

Then I was able to interview someone called Ryan Menezes. He's one of the member of "Liquid fun", a community of improvisation actor. He is the person who handles the finance. He told me that it was actually their group who organized the show. I've done some improvisation last year. I can tell you it's really difficult to talk without hesitation. I don't know if you had notice but during the show, all the actors respected the rules of acting: Always face the audience and never ever hide one of your partners.

 

To put in a nutshell, I understand the real meaning of this assignment. Maybe you want us to think that its true purpose was to write something in English. However I believe you gave us this assignment so we could have a chance to socialize with the local people from Boston, which I really appreciate. And for that, I thank you very much.