ConveryLit&SocAssignment3

My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan

At the beginning of the section Nathan is talking to the international students. One starts to vent about when Americans say “How are you?” we use it as a hi-bye statement. I agree with this when I am walking to somewhere I need to be, its fast and the nice thing to say quickly but they are right you don’t really listen to what the person has to say because you continue to walk. But also when I see my friends in the hall way and stop to talk that is one of the first things I say and that is when you really do listen to their answer and that’s how you start your conversation. I agree with something that Nadif says, he says that friendship here doesn’t involve families and I do believe that. Meeting someone on campus, I don’t expect them to take me home with them the next time they go home to meet their family. Then again my friends back home, if I go over and they aren’t home yet from work or school, I will sit down and have a conversation with their parents because I’ve known them away and feel comfortable doing that. Later the students go on to talk about how much easier school is here for them and our grading system is so much better. It makes me think for a minute that maybe next time I do want to complain about a 10 question quiz I should think about other places that only have one or two exams and that is your grade. School comes hard to me here at Bloomsburg I couldn’t imagine being an international student somewhere else. Every culture is different and I feel that Americans don’t like change that’s why we don’t put the effort out to learn about other places around the world and what they do day to day.