Victoria Koenig CTP Blog #2

     After reading Chapter 9 of Interpersonal Communication I found the part on Communication Climate supper interesting. Because often my mood is changed due to the different type of people I interact with, which I'm sure everyone feels this way. But this specific part of the chapter helped me recognize why we feel certain ways through the confirming and disconfirming climates, and how we recognize the message, acknowledge the message, and lastly endorsing the message.  
     For example as a child I never understood why adults would use body language when engaging in communicating with others. It actually bothered me when people would nod their heads when listing to another person. But over the past 8 years or so becoming an adult I realized that it was a sign of respect to the other person whom you are engaging conversation with. Now that I know about communication climate I have an even better understanding, and that it is acknowledging the message. 
    With my close friends, we often and basically always endorse each others messages. Most recently a good friend of mine started seeing this guy, and he is amazing and so respectful. He wants to date her, but she doesn't want to date him officially, yet. Her reasons being because she really only dated two other guys, and one of them very seriously. She is just nervous about the outcome of everything and hurting her ex. But her ex treated her very poorly and she has no plans ever getting back with him. So I always endorse with her that I understand where she is coming from just because she is nervous and new relationships tend to do that. But me being me I always put my two cents in, and say how at the same time I don't agree with how she is going about it because her ex hurt her so bad so why would it matter if her being in a new relationship would hurt him? In the end regardless of how she chooses to go about things I will support her but not always agree, and she recognizes this. 

 
This is my friend Claudia in the picture above (not the friend i talked about in the paragraph above). We worked on homework together at The Coffee House in Burlington. We used a lot of verbal and non verbal communication while working on homework together. I was in a pretty grumpy mood before we met up, and I have to say the mood was definitely uplifted by just catching up with her and having her in my presence.