Week 2 Blog - EDUC 6165 Communication and Listening

Robin C. Miller                                                                                                            EDUC- 6165

Blog Assignment – Week 2

Since my niece was visiting me, I decided to watch the TV series Hannah Montana. I turned it into a game so that she can help Auntie guess what they were doing. So we watched it on mute first and she helped me identify what the characters might be saying to one another. The series was based on the concept of competition.

Based on communication and body language between the two girls and one boy in the beginning during the school gave me an impression that they were friends because of the constant verbal communication with one another. They seemed not to like or get along with two of the other young ladies in their class.

I’m assuming, after watching how excited the teacher was talking to his students, that they were expected to raise money for some reason. The two females already raised a lot of money and were in the lead with raising the most. The three friends seemed to have tried everything they could to compare and out do the two ladies but failed at trying to raise the same amount of money or more. The two females seemed as if they were teasing the three friends and rubbing it in their faces.

The three friends did continue to raise money but a knock at the led the three friends to appear very upset and confused when another one of their classmates visited with the same goal in mind, “raising money.”

Ironically, the friends took the money and gave it to their much needier classmate. Based on their facial expressions in class signified that they were happy with their decision that they made. But, when the teacher announced that they two females that were not liked still raised the most money they were baffled as to how that happened when they knew they gave all their money to the much needier girl in the class which would have put her in first place.

I assumed based on the exchange of words and body language that the male in the group did something that he was not supposed to do because his two friends became puzzled and really upset at him. My niece said, “Ooooo, Oliver is always doing something, I bet you he was being bad.” I started laughing because she must of watched this show a millions times.

When I unmuted the show, I found that all of my assumptions were correct. The two girls names were Amber and Ashley and the three friends were Lily, Miley, and Oliver. The competition was a school charity drive.

I also found out that at the end Oliver bragged about how Sarah, (their other classmate they helped) was going to win because she had more money which made Ashley and Amber get more money from their parents to win the charity. Of course, my niece turns to me and says, “See Auntie, I told you! Oliver is always getting in trouble and being bad.”

Link to TV series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVFTBlsUqE