Your Face Says It All!

For this week's blog post I decided to interview a close friend of mine.  We had already been conversing about how my spring break went.  When it finally came time for me to ask her about her break, she suddenly let out an exhale while rolling her eyes.  This quickly gave me the impression that her week may not had been as pleasant as mine.  She starts off telling me how there was drama as usual between her and her mother.  While explaining to me what the argument was about, I noticed how a sense of anger and stress came across her face.  She was slouched back against the wall.  Her eyebrows were angled downward and were mostly tense. Slightly she had shown teeth when mentioning how enraged her mother had made her over the pettiest things. When I asked her if "anything good happened?", Her face eagerly lit up with excitement as she exclaimed to me the best part of her whole break.  Her eyebrows were now highly arched and a large smile suddenly appeared on her face.  She swiftly sprang up and was no longer leaning against the wall.  Slapping her hands against her thighs quickly, she revealed the fact that her sister gave birth to a baby girl.  As I saw her stare at the picture of her new born niece for a few moments, I recognized the proud feeling she had that she was now an Aunt.  After that moment, she started to sum up just about all that went on during her spring break.  She continued to explain how she rarely got a chance to go to sleep because of the school work she still had to do for professors.  This was easy to believe because I could see the tiredness in her face.   Her eyes and eyebrows were lowered and she wasn't looking directly at me, she looked out of it.  Another exhale was later released as if it was huge relief to be back at school.  From paying close attention to my friend's facial expressions and body language, it wasn't difficult to make judgement on how her spring break went.

Watching From A Distance

For my People Watch i chose to watch in the library. I came across two people sitting at a table.  They seem to be a couple having issues.  As i sit at one of the computers from a distance i could see both of them have expressions of a serious face.  They both were sitting distant from each other as if there were tention between the two.  There was a space of about two people in between. When you usually see a couple they are in each others intimate zone.  The boy seemed to have a face of anger because his eye brows are tense and the eye contact was sustained. His hand gestures were strong and you can tell he meant what he was saying.  His body language was powerful as if he was in charge of her.  He sat up straight on the edge of his chair and his whole body was facing hers.
At the same time the girl sat a few paces away. She sat forward leaning on the table with one hand holding her head.  From this i observed that she was maybe stressed out or in deep thought about what the boy was scolding her for.  Her eyes were not fixed on him they looked lower to the floor.  It seemed as if she were a child being yelled at by her parents.  Her body was facing him but her shoulders were in, the body language from her i was getting was that she was in trouble for something she did wrong.  At one point she reached over to touch the boy's hand and he snatches his hand back as if he doesn't want her to touch him.  When they were leaving the boy got up without her and started walking like he was storming off, he stopped and waited for her to follow. While walking she stayed a couple paces behind him as he walked ahead.  What i got from this is that he was mad at the girl but still showed he cared for her by waiting. The both of their body language gave off the intention that they both were having an argument.