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SMALL TALK #3 Your Name: Natalie Nguyen Date and time of interaction: 10/16/2006 at 9:20 pm Location of interaction: at one of the neighborhood's house Entry number: 3 The interaction that I encountered happens ten years ago. When I moved to the United Stated, everything was still new to me. I had to adjust into many different things in the American's society in order to be at a social standard norm level here. In addition, my English was acceptable to get the message delivery to the other person. I clearly remembered one day as I was working out in a strange neighborhood that far away from my house, I started to get lost at a moment. I began to panic and could not figure out a way out to get to the main street. Therefore, my goal at that time was to get approach to one of the neighbor's house asking for a direction to get home. I want to interact with a complete stranger person and see how they would respond to help me. I chose this interaction because it gives chance to practice small talk with unacquainted person whenever there is an unexpected situation arises as well as to overcome the language barrier. …show more content…

I did not bring my phone to call my family to come pick me up. All I had was a small piece of paper that has my parent's address just in case I get lost. Also, at that time, I was not familiar with the street there yet. I was brave enough to ring one the neighbor' doorbell and asking for a direction. Luckily, she opened the door but she seemed a bit nervous when I knocked on their door at late time. The conversation started from

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