What surprised me?

What intrigued me?

What disturbed me?

(about my field notes #2)

This time at my field site the atmosphere was a bit different, due to a number of factors.

I sat behind the choir as I took notes in order to be less of a disturbance to the choir, for I felt as if I was a distraction last week. But I noticed this week that at least 50% of the 45 choir members are in their 50's or 60's, and there are a hand full of people in their 40's and at least 10 people are over 70. I also realized that people tend to have full conversations with those whom they are in the same age group with. It makes me wonder if I can consider this to be a form of high school behavior, in the sense that seniors are friends with seniors, juniors are friends with juniors, and so on.

In my last field notes (although I did not blog about it) I notice high school like clique, including the popular girls, the over achievers, the under achiever, and the wanna bees. On the day I went to my field site most of the popular group was not present. Due to this the choir seemed a lot more friendly and inviting. No one was there to make snotty comments to or at the director so I felt like the rehearsal went a lot smoother with less interruptions.,

Also there was a new girl at the rehearsal. I use to be the youngest person in the choir, me being 18, but not she is at 14. She received a much friendlier reaction when she walked into rehearsal then I ever did, I am not sure why though, if it is just do to the fact that the popular girls were not there or that people felt the need to be nicer to here since she is still a kid.

I feel like all of these facts contributed to the outcome of the rehearsal because there was more positive things than negative that occurred at this rehearsal as opposed to the last. Both of these factors leads to my second research question, will the high school cliques ever end?