DEVC 324_FINAL REQUIREMENT

CATHERINE JADE SALIMO CATH JD INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION JOURNAL DEVC 324

day-to-day interpersonal encounters journal

23 May 2021, Sunday Today, I’ll write my feelings. 24 May 2021, Monday I’ll do my part with eagerness 25 May 2021, Tuesday Rest is the key however I can’t afford it 26 May 2021, Wednesday Let’s build connection 28 May 2021, Friday I did my best!

TODAY, I’LL WRITE MY FEELINGS. I decided to start my day at 9am. It is Usually, in our group hard to wake up especially when in this trying tasks, the leader has the hard that we got a pile of workloads. I woke loudest or more vocal than the up with my mother’s voice who’s always groupmates especially when there to be our alarm in the morning. Then, I the online class got started. It began to follow my simple morning routine tends that the leader of the which is to simply cleanse my face followed group will always do an open by making a black coffee. It feels so heavy camera and microphone. In one cause my sleep is not enough but I need to of our group tasks in the patiently hold this drowsiness to continue course, Disaster and Mental working for the finals. Moreover, this day is Health, I’m the one leading the focused on group meetings and for the group. For me, it is exciting parting of tasks. because I rarely lead a group activity.

I’m always the follower and I feel that I am a good follower than a leader and I also feel that I don’t have a good communication skill in terms of leading. However, I already accept it to have once in a while experience. When the meeting started, I open my camera and mic to informally start the meeting. It feels so awkward to talk while my camera is on. I only see the display photos of my classmates and hear once in a while voices from my groupmates sharing some of their opinions or agreeing with the concepts like “yes”, “ok po, noted”, “maganda yun. Ok po ako dun”, Sige po” and etc. Now, I finally understand those people who are talking in front of their screen with this kind of display. It feels like, I am talking alone and has no idea if they exactly really receiving what I’m explaining. To continue in parting tasks, we decided to write it in google docs while presenting it to the meeting. From that, we finally got a better exchange of ideas and concepts. Today, I feel proud. I lead a group activity and become vocally active. I hope that these works will be finished very soon. In making a connection and adjustment to my classmates, I realize that it is hard to show eagerness towards the project we are making when I don’t feel the willingness of my groupmates. However, I realize that I am also like them when I am being a follower, I tend to shut down my camera and just listen to the instructions. At that moment, I realize that they may also have ideas and concepts however the only trigger that they need is to be approached by someone. I finally understand that it is very important to exert more effort in doing something that everyone could be involved in and can participate in more. With this, I can say that our meeting is successful because I heard their ideas and feedback from the meeting we’ve done. At the end of the meeting, I receive some ‘thank you and it feels so satisfying.

I’LL DO MY PART WITH EAGERNESS As I start my day with my daily routine, I followed it by reminding my groupmates of the deadline of their individual tasks. Today is the continuous workday of those heavy activities and outputs we have. Today’s agenda is to start doing the artworks that will be needed in our newsletter and I am eager to do it because layout and drawing is my forte. As I talk to Jaja, our group leader, she mentioned that I need to make four artworks that are under the four articles. I got pressured because it is not easy to do and conceptualize artworks. As I talk to Jaja, our group leader, she mentioned that I need to make four artworks that are under the four articles. I got pressured because it is not easy to do and conceptualize artworks. While conceptualizing the design that I will draw, I consult my other groupmates to collect some ideas and concepts regarding their working article. From what are the things that they can see or visualize in their articles and how they technically want to see it in the drawing. It is hard for me to collaborate with them as they also encounter difficulty in explaining what they want in the artwork.

From the artwork that I made that is focused on the role of the youth in the mass, I talked to Hannah and ask her some ideas and insights. She gave me a simple scenario where different kinds of youth were actively participating in a walk. From that, I made it into a scene that the different kind of youth is gathered to step up for them to enter a hole with the signage for kinabukasan. Even though I didn’t exactly make what she said, she still liked it even more. Today, I enjoy listening to the diverse ideas of my classmates. From the decision making, I make sure that the work I do is inlined with the decisions of my groupmates especially the rules and tasks that are given. What I am avoiding here is that the misunderstanding that we can create and can cause revisions and may lead to a heavier workload not just for me but also for the rest of the group. I hope we finish this on time and satisfied ourselves with the best results of our outputs. 24 May 2021, Monday

REST IS THE KEY HOWEVER I CAN’T AFFORD IT Same with the previous days, I did my morning routine. Earlier morning, I got a chat from my classmate. She said that she really is overwhelmed by stress. The heavy workloads are unmotivating us to continue. From the past two weeks, I already feel exhausted. The only time we rest is bedtime sleep. The heaviest thing that this online class gave us is the unending stress and pressuring days. As I talk with her through chats, I feel her exhaustion and I can’t share the same thoughts because I don’t want her to feel more heaviness. Upon having chit chats and rants, I already gave up and let myself share what I also feel. Same with her, I also can’t afford rest. I agreed and relate to her. Today, I realize that it is not easy to just listen. I try my best to be a comfort zone for my friend. I let her talk and goes with the flow of the conversation but what I didn’t realize early is that it is also important to give reactions and opinions towards her problems. As much as possible I didn’t overtake our conversation, I let her feel that her opinions about these past few days are valid and I’m concern. Nevertheless, I found out that it is good that I should make feedbacks and reactions, even if it’s negative or positive, to build a deeper connection with her.

By also sharing my thoughts and experiences towards this struggle, I feel that through this, I released some toxicity in my mind. Now it is getting better and I know now to myself that I am not alone in this kind of fight. I also want to highlight that deep interpersonal communication with a friend or to a close person may help us to refresh our mind. 25 May 2021, Tuesday

LET’S BUILD CONNECTIONS For the past few days, most of my interpersonal communication is from my classmates and other people on the internet. I rarely talk in our house. I may count or easily forget the conversation I had in our house. I can say that most of my time, I type conversations from a private message, group chats and even in chat boxes all over different media platforms. One thing that I can consider as an advantage is that I am building connections through various people. I have Twitter and I have there two accounts. One for personal use that can be accessed by my friends and other people that had personal encounters with me and the second account for Fangirling that can be my private space to hide my identity. I am happy to have these accounts. It let me encounter and interact with different kind of people. In my first account, I can see posts of my friends sharing their thoughts and opinions that I may not understand sometimes. Different topics can be joined by anyone. There are posts, likes and retweets that can be relatable. From my second account, most of the posts there is related to a specific fandom. There, I share thoughts and opinions from the artists I idolize. I comment and share various posts. I may not have close friends there or even had a friend there but the good thing is, no one will make me uncomfortable that relates my real identity.

There, people tend to be more understanding because I have the same interests as them. Once in a while interaction is overwhelming. I feel so dominant because someone is interested in my post even a little interaction made me feel satisfied. I am not a hundred per cent sure if I am effectively engaging to this platform but what I can be sure of is that I love showing appreciation towards other people who are trying to reach others by simply communicating in a post. Today, I shared a fanart that I drew last month to my fan account. Some people, commend my artwork and I felt so much happiness. This may be in stage two of interpersonal communication. Even though it ends there, I may say that this is a satisfying moment of my interpersonal communication through the internet. 26 May 2021, Wednesday

I DID MY BEST I woke up in the morning with tons of message from my classmates. I don’t even mind washing or make a coffee to start my day instead I immediately open my laptop and update myself. Today is the last day of our sem. I already finished my part of our newsletter. In our newsletter, my task is to be one of the layout artists and I am tasked to do artworks. I also received one part to write a DevCom article and I am glad that one of my groupmates helped me to accomplish this article. Yesterday, I forgot to write for the journal because I need to finish my artworks and edit the video for one of our finals. It has been a long day for me. As usual, most of my interpersonal communication is from the messages and video meetings with my classmates’ updating from the group outputs.

Today, I’m surely pushed my best. From the past days having a conversation with my various classmates, I may say that most of those time that I’m connecting with them was successful. Some conversations may not be as successful as others because of misunderstandings, eventually, they also worked up. I am also overwhelmed that I am close to most of my classmates that when they need help or they have other concerns they approach me and I feel that they are comfortable talking with me. Sooner or later, this pandemic will just end and in such time, we’ll be doing interpersonal interactions with the people we missed again. Overall, the best practice that I may highlight in my five-day journal is my patience in communicating people. 28 May 2021, Friday

Presented to: RICHELLE KATIGBAK

Presented by: CATHERINE JADE SALIMO

CATHERINE JADE SALIMO CATH JD ARTIST COMMUNICATOR DEVC 324