At almost the end of the semester, I'm finally warming up to my classmates in German. Over the past couple of months I have befriended a few of the previously stated "immature" German class freshmen. Before that, class seemed to be way too painful to get through since nobody cooperated. After the first change of seats the kid sitting in front of me, the one on my left, and the one on my right have started breaking out of their shells. Our relationship has moved from handing papers to each other to having those great inside jokes :)
I've noticed that class has turned into what we make it. Today our teacher wasn't in the best of moods. We all commented on it and decided that we would help the class move along since other students were being extremely stubborn. Another thing I've noticed is that we don't all decide to make class a certain way. Earlier this week the freshy to my right was extremely hyper while the rest of us were normal or down and tired. The energy eventually caught on to me and soon our whole group of four. We were all shouting out answers, which the teacher loved, and we were all having a blast. The same thing occured a couple of days later with me and we had the same result and our teacher was happy again. This demonstrates group think because on certain days we wouldn't even begin to think about being loud and attentive due to tiredness and such but we were all kind of swept up with the energy and acted differently than we would have.
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