Silence...

Why would anyone consider silence to be awkward? When your alone sometimes silence is good. others like to get rid of the silence by blasting music. But in a classroom or a lunch table, when someone is speaking and everyone else chimes in, but then....silence...Some people throw out the awkward turtle or something to break up that absense of sound, and we cheer it on with a giggle. Similar to what my teacher Mr. Sal did in class on the first day of school. He said ok class, lets begin talking about sociology. And then he proceeded to sit in the back of the class behind two girls, and just sat there. out of sight of a few students, while the rest stared at him. After a minute or so, one of the kids said. "Sooo, where should we start?" And then thats when Mr. Sal stood up and started teaching us about sociology, mainly about why we consider silence awkward. And its the fact that we have gone to school over the last few years, and when we enter the class, we assume the teacher has work for us to do. Not just to sit there and examine eachother. So i guess an appropriate message to assume, would be..to not assume. Everyday is different, and we should embrace each day not expecting the teacher to do what we think he might.