Yesterday i attended a Workshop about small talk with Joe ,Melin, and Sheridan. Walking in i figured this would just be some gigantic waste of time that would benefit me in absolutely no way possible. Turns out it was only a small waste of time. The idea of small talk and learning how to small talk is something simple and learned almost at the earliest stages of life in middle school or at the park. Small talk is just making conversation to pretty much take up time or to pass the time during something like an airplane flight. although we did learn that small talk is something that when used properly in certain situations with certain people in different places, good things like job oppurtunities or relationships could start up. now that i think about it, the guy who led the workshop was completely right. I used small talk when i met the guy who became my future boss by starting to talk about sports, then leading to school, then to the fact that i needed a job that was easy and paid good money. This small talk led me to my job which paid $14.50 an hour for 3 hours a day to pretty much talk to other after school counselors and hit kids with dodgeballs. Small talk can sometimes lead to you and the other person finding out that you have some kind of connection for example i met a girl in my speech class and after some small talk we learned that our dads have been working together in construction for more than 5 years and then some more small talk led to us having a strong relationship now. The man whose name im still not sure of nor do i think anybody does did a very good job with the handout sheets and the tips that he gave on how to small talk and how to keep small talk when you think the conversation could be ending. Things like switching topics or using a keyword from the previous topic to move onto another topic can help in any case when the conversation seems to be dying. for example you can be having a conversation about how you like the band guns n roses and then i would say yeah i like lsitening to them while i ski, and that person can then in turn start a new small talk conversation about how they like to ski. Certain situations can end in a good way if you know how to small talk correctly for example you can use things like hey it was nice meeting you but i have to go, can i call you sometime so that we can meet and continue this conversation. all in all despite the awkwardsness of the group meeting itself, the workshop was good and actually taught me a few more tips about something that i already felt i had a good hand on.