I am more confident to talk to them. In a way I feel like that's self-development, a bit. Before I have a problem, I don't really feel comfortable talking to new people. Sometimes I talk a bit, but then I'm like, 'Ok, I have to go.' I don't really like long conversations or I feel, I don't know, I don't want it to end badly so sometimes I just end it fast, that's my way of approaching it but I don't, I know it's because I don't feel confident talking to them.
But then, when you really have to experience these kinds of situations then you need to do it, no matter how you felt. So I just talk to more people, and then sometimes they like, there's an Indian guy on my floor, he came and he was like 'Oh, can you talk to me, can you show me how to cook' and so we kind of like talked to each other and then we developed and became friends and yeah, so I think my interpersonal skills are better. I know how to talk, how to approach people and also my confidence, it's more, it's more than before.
Do you find you can just talk to people from different countries like you would talk to someone from your own country or is there still a difference in the way that you talk to people?
For me, I think if I talk to people from my own country I think I feel confident already, I can talk to them, I can have a long conversation since our first conversation, but my main problem is when I am talking to foreign people, because sometimes I feel like they came from different culture so I don't know if I say this, how will they feel, or will they be offended, or something. But I think I learn how to approach them, a bit by bit, and then talking a bit in general first and then going deeper. If we see anything in common then we can talk about that more and then we get to know each other in that way, yeah. I think that's how I develop my skills about talking to people.
