RJ - Getting To Know You
Qns: Based on your personal self-introduction this morning, what impression do you think your classmates have of you? Did you create this impression on purpose?
Ans:
Let’s start off with my speech. I was having a sore throat therefore it was hard for me to speak loudly. So I tried my best to speak so as that everyone could hear me even though I sounded like a frog croaking.
Impression to me can depend on two factor, one is the content and two is my tone/pitch of my voice. For today, I did not intend to have much content in my speech this is because I am not ready to share more about me. Sharing about me being a cheerleader, is something that I am not proud of but I think it is important for my class to know in case my secondary school friends come by and call me cheerleader, then my class mates might be confused and I have to do my explanation again.
I felt that I have given my class an impression of hostile yet friendly and introvert towards what I am really but choose to be extrovert during lesson time. Therefore giving them a total different personality and impression. If I give them the impression of introvert, my class mates may felt that I am very hard to communicate with and that they might not want to speak to me anymore.
Thus I prefer to give them the impression that I am very friendly and someone that enjoyed to be with. There it is true that created this impression on purpose. The only time when I show the real me, it must be a time when I am really too stress out and I just couldn’t figure out how to handle the situation then will I show it. I do not like to give my classmates the impression of hostile therefore I must give the impression I am friendly. Creating an impression for my class is as important as communication. When I communicating with strangers and people who are closed, I must create an impression that I am friendly.
In this world you cannot survive if you are hostile, therefore making friends with the created impression will allow me to get closer to communicating well with my friends.
Ruth Yeo Qian Yi @ 7:19 AM
