Bemused in America: Watching joggers.

While reading this article, the author found a lot of things about joggers in Chicago to be weird to him. For example, he found it interesting that they don't care what they look like, and a lot of people run by themselves, with a pet, or with their baby in a stroller, and the time and location when they run. Compared to Germans, they prefer to run with others chasing after a soccer ball back and forth. Everyone has different values and different ways to look at things. As a runner myself, I like running on my own listening to my iPod and early in the morning when its summer but in the middle of the day in the winter...or inside.

How many languages do you speak ?

I only speak English, everyone in my house speaks English as well. But when I was in elementary school my best friend down the street was Korean and every time I would go to her house, her family would all speak in Korean to each other and it was weird for me because I just kinda sat there listening but not understanding what was going on. In class we learned that everyone has different values. For example, when I would go to her house, her parents were never home and her grandma lived with them to take care of the kids while her parents were at work. A lot of cultures live like that; with a lot of their family all living together in one home, speaking different languages.

1 trick, 2 trick, red trick, blue trick !

Sal gave us all different instructions on how to play a card game. Each group represented a different country, and when we all came together to play the game we weren't allowed to talk or make any signals to each other on what to do. For the most part the instructions were very close to the same just a little bit different. I remember I was trying to keep track of how many cards I had by using the King, Queen, Ace, and Jack cards and Sal only told our group to do that so when we got together with other groups they were confused about what we were doing. This game showed us how different our world is today and when people visit other countries they feel like they don't belong and they become really confused because everyone has their own ways of doing certain things; and when you mix that together it becomes complicated for the "outcast".