Observing Your Surroundings

As I began to observe many people and I noticed that it could be very interesting to actually sit and observe someone for a long period of time. I decided to sit alone in the cafeteria and actually pick someone who I probably would have a lot to describe about. I chose this older man who I've seen since I started this school.

I think he must be about 60 years old and he is enrolled in many classes. Coincidently, he was sipping his coffee and eating his cookies when I began to observe him. The first thing that came to my mind is how admirable it is to see someone that age enrolled in college. It makes me really stop and realize that I have a great privilege to be able to come to school everyday. I wonder why he is in school now and I wonder what he must be thinking. He seemed very puzzled for a moment when he began to look for his car keys. I noticed he had dropped them on the floor and I helped him pick it up. He had this enormous smile as I looked at him and picked up the keys for him. He said, "thank you ."

As I continued, observing him, my mind began to drift and assume all these possibilities in which he might be in school now. Some assumptions I made is that he is retired, maybe not married and wants some entertainment in his life. He looks like a really nice man. The times I saw, he is always wearing his thick, dark glasses and his gray jacket. His shoes seem old, but he is probably like my grandpa who always liked his oldest pair of shoes because they were the most comfortable.

I also observed this young lady who looked to be about nineteen or twenty she was on her phone and eating. She wore these really pretty sandals that were gold, I would have complemented her on them but she was on the phone the entire time. She took multiple phone calls while I observed her I remember two in particular.

One of the phone calls she made was to her hairstylist, I guess she told the other person on the other line exactly how she wanted her hair styled she told her the color "Rihanna red", and the length of the extensions she wanted "sixteen inches" and she also told her that she would bring in a picture of the style.

One of the other phone conversations I overheard was her arguing with her boyfriend I suppose. She got sad as she told him "I'm so tired of you always lying", she hung up on him multiple times but he always called her right back. I think she knew he would always call back because she would keep her phone in her hand as if waiting for his call back.

All of her conversations were very interesting but these two stuck out the most. She was a very loud person I don't even think she realizes how loud she was being, I was sitting one table away from her and heard everything she said clearly. Her voice was really squeaky it kind of got annoying at times. It was great to actually sit and observe people, you can get a lot out of it without