Having to wake up for classes that start at 8 in the morning has always been a bitch for me since i started college in 2006. But waking for class last wednesday(17.9.08) was a real pain in the arse due to the fact that i was up until 4.30 watching football, i still dont know why they have to play all their european games during the weekday and not the weekends.Even that i still stay up to watch every champions league game that liverpool plays, i cant explain why i do it but i just do.

So during this class we finished the last bit of non-verbal communication where we watched a few clips from tv episodes. Next we started a new chapter, interpersonal communication. through out the class i felt it was a bit slow except the part where the word intimacy came up and the lecturer was asking people in the classroom to define what it means and this clever boy who goes by the name of clement said "into you i see" which was what Guru Pitka a.k.a Mike Myers in the movie The Love Guru.That bit got my full attention..... im saying this with the full knowledge knowing my lecturer will be reading this in the days to come.

And then came this part of the chapter about The Developmental Perspective,Mark Knapp Model, which i found quite interesting. It shows us the stages in a relationship from the start to the end of it.
It start at the coming together stage:
initiating
experimenting
intensifying
then the relational maintenance stage:
intergrating
bonding
differentiating
circumscribing
and then the coming apart stage:
stagnating
avoiding
terminating

How nice it would be if we could skip the coming together stage and go straight to the relational maintenance stage and stay there without worrying about the coming apart bit.


__jiawei__