Kayla Ferguson
5th period
5/10/2011

Reflective Paper When I came into Communication Application, I didn’t know anything about it, or what it had to do with my daily life. But for the past three six weeks I’ve been in the class, it has really informed me about the many ways of communicating. During the first few weeks of class we quickly started to jump into the lesson. First we learned about communicating with our body language. We had to show many different ways of facial expressions, eye contact, gesture, posture, and movements dealing with our body. After doing it for awhile, I really grasped on to it. A couple of weeks later, we learned things about dealing with interference, such as physical, semantic, and psychological noises. That was super hard to understand the differences between the three! But I learned and understood it after a few lessons, and quickly embraced it, using it in the real world. Around the end of the second month in the communication class, the class went into talking about the communication process. It stated, and talked about the point of sending a message, receiving a message, and giving feedback from which you get from the message that was being sent to you. Learning all these different ways to communicate was a blessing, but the one I most benefitted from was the lesson about stage fright. It talked about the certain things you should do to overcome having fear in front of people. That particular lesson thought me how to stand up in front of people without second guessing myself, and automatically thinking I would mess up. Suddenly I would joke around, and speak my mind and not second guess what I said in front of my friends. Like I said learning all the ways of communication was a blessing. It helped me talk to people easier without getting frustrated, and annoyed. Yes, at first walking into the class, it rapidly rubs