Observation: hour 3

I did my last observation after my 12 o’clock class on Friday. Since the weather was very nice, many more people were present at the flag pole. With a bigger population, it became very easy to notice the groups that smokers tend to form when they are at the flag pole. Hence, this indicates they prefer to be more social. There were only 2 people who were smoking by themselves. Other than these two, everyone was else was at least with one other person. There were a lot of small groups with two to three people in each group. They all seemed to be having casual conversations with each other.

There were groups of students coming and going. A few of the groups there consisted of five or six students that stayed there the entire hour that I was observing them. However, the other smaller groups of students just came for a few minutes and then left. The interesting thing about them was that, they came in groups and left in groups. It’s as if they stick together as a community.