Silence

On our first day of Sal's sociology class our teacher walked in and sat amongst us in silence. For the first few moments everyone sat in silence looking around wondering what was going on. Finally someone spoke out and asked what we were supposed to be doing. I realized that this silence would not have been so awkward if we had not been so used to having our teacher come in and tell us what to do right when we sat down. So when Mr. Salituro was silent it left us all confused because his actions were not what we are used to. I believe that there are times when we are so accustomed to noise and people talking that there are times when we all talk just to talk. We talk at times about nothing and I think it could be just to fill that awkward silence. I thought the silent experiment was a perfect way to start out class and get us all thinking sociologically.