Observation and Description Exercise

It was Sunday afternoon, when I finally decided to begin working on observation and description exercise. It was a bit hard to come up for a good place to do this assignment. At first I was going to do it in a car near my house, however the day was so hot and I did not want to spend one hour in the heat. I since I had to come to a meeting at the Fairfax Campus of George Mason, I decided to do my exercise in the Science and technology building 2. I choose the Peer Advising room in the second floor.

Usually the peer advising room is a very busy place, but in the summer and especially on a Sunday afternoon the hold building is like a ghost town. I came into the room and as I expected it was empty. I sat down next to one of the tables, got myself very comfortable and began observing. Tick, tock, tick, tock the sound of the clock hand ticking was the most obvious. I thought to myself, hearing the clock think is going to males this hour very long. I also picked up another very obvious sound, the humming of the air conditioning. I began to think that I made a mistake and picked the wrong place. Sooner or later I thought I would be sleeping.

I try it focus my mind and just observe my surrounding. The room was very bright and besides the humming and the ticks of the clock everything was very quiet. This is a very different scene from the weekdays during the regular semester. Usually the most common noises are the tying of the key boards, people chatting, music playing and cell phones ringing.

A few minutes into my hour of observation I hear a couple of extra noises. One sounded like the air condition but it was much louder and the other one was a clamping noise. Soon I realized that it was the water fountain out in the hall way. After the noise from the water fountain stopped it was back to the clock and the air conditioning. But then there was something else. I could hear the dangling of keys. I soon was also able to hear someone walking in the hall. I guess the building was not empty after all. I also caught the sound of doors opening every now and then. I could hear the sound of the elevator stopping and opening. I thought that sooner or later someone and ask me what I was doing.

I was a bit amazed at the fact that I could listen to the movements outside the room and even hear doors opening in the far side of the hall way. I soon realized that I my hour was over. In the mist o focusing on the other sounds I had completely ignored the ticks of the clock.