Reflection
To begin, our first international student day went great. I felt I really got to know the students on a personal level and grow knowledge and appreciation of their culture. Although there were 7 of us, only …show more content…
We were all sending and receiving messages throughout the length of our conversation. “It emphasizes the construction or shared creations of messages and meanings” (Koester & Lustig, 2013, p.16). This model has two goals in mind. The first is not simply to influence and persuade others, but to really grow knowledge and seek an understanding in order to develop shared meanings and agreements (Koester & Lustig, 2013, p.16). The second is that no one person is just sending or receiving messages. You are hopefully doing both, therefore, there is no such thing as a pure sender or receiver (Koester & Lustig, 2013, p.16). I felt our group did an excellent job at exhibiting this model. Each of us played an important and equal role in the conversation as far as sending messages and receiving