Challenging Task № 2

Hello again!

Today there will be one more interesting post about overcoming my fears. Do you remember my list of frightening behaviours? If you don`t, you can look through it here http://goldenfreckle.blogspot.ru/2018/03/my-list-of-frightening-behaviours.html

I have already done the first task: to telephone an organization and ask for some information. This week I managed to complete the second task, which is a bit more difficult for me: Come to the English Department in NSPU and initiate a conversation with a professor.

You may ask me why is it difficult for me at all. Actually, I don`t like to bother people or interfere with their work. My Mum is a professor at the university and she always tells me a lot of stories about students who always want something from her and her colleagues. Students especially tend to want all the important information from the professors when the above-mentioned are eating or having their well deserved rest)) And sometimes students even behave very rudely, like they don`t say hello to professors, or don`t knock at the door. I guess that it`s really disturbing, that`s why I don`t really like to come to our department. It`s like intruding on other people`s territory! I prefere to wait for the professor outside or ask all my questions during the double period. But there are some situations when you really need some important information or a key from the classroom right here and right now. And you have to be confident and calm at this very moment. That`s why I decided to place this behaviour in my list.

I decided to do this task during the lunch break. My friend Nastya was observing me)) I tried to be as polite as I could, because I did remember my Mum`s stories)) I didn`t have a definite question to ask, and actually I didn`t know what professor exactly I would talk to)) But I had to perform the task, so I knocked at the door. It was a bit frightening, but it was not as bad as I had expected. I saw Larisa Nikolayevna Kretova there. She seemed to be in a good mood, and that was a success already!) I asked her some information about our curriculum, like when our summer examinations would take place this semester. She answered very politely and friendly and then I said thank you and left the department. I was a bit nervous, but it seemed quite easy to me. Sometimes we have our rights to bother people, but only if we have a true reason and if we are polite enough!

I`m waiting for the next task, I` ll try to make it more interesting for you)) Maybe I`ll attach a photo or a video like a kind of a proof))

See you soon! I hope that next week we`ll have an opportinity to enjoy warm spring weather❤
Bye!