Interactions

Here is the summary of the interactions that took place this past week:

The people that I choose were, two different bosses of mine, my boyfriends mother, my sister-in-law, and this guy that I met who owned a "tea store".


Both of my bosses were seemly interested in the fact that I was talking to them about their personal lives and outside the realm of buisness. They were very friendly and opened up faily quickly and easy, it felt a little awkward though because I worked with them in a professional sense, and with one of my bosses she started disclosing some really delicate personal information about herself, and ended up crying about it in front of me, but it was a good experience because now I know that her and I have built a certian level of trust.


The exstended family memebrs interaction wasn't as successful because I'm very open and talk to them that way anyway. There's not really anyone that I know, or am related to that I don't interact with in that way.


The most interesting interaction was my interaction with the "tea guy", I can't pronounce his name (or spell it) to save my life, but I went into the store just to kind of see what it was, it was new and I had never recognized it before. When I went in the guy was kind of closed up, but when i asked him his name (smiled), and started inquiring about his buisness, he began to run down the whole history of tea (i didn't know tea had that large of a history) and discussed with me the specific variations of tea such as white tea, green tea, black tea, and processed tea, and what it was good for, and what foods go best with it.

I got alot of information, he seemed happy and excited to talk to me, and I also found out some information about his personal life. That he graduated from University of Penn with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but his passion is for tea. It was kind of strange, but funny and informative.