By being part of this community one has the opportunity to interact with members of different cultures for a while, achieving truly understand their habits and thoughts. Although all of us have different language backgrounds we all speak English to interact between one another. All the conversations among students are informal and we even mix our native languages with English but when we talk to a GEO advisor formal English is a must.
Qualities
Since we are all young students we often speak informally, the emails that GEO sends us are always very friendly and polite. When it comes to the lobo friends mails they're like if we were talking to friends. The only moment when the messages are serious is when the advisors talk to us about visas and legal requirements. The basic requirement for every conversation whether written or spoken is to make yourself as clear as possible in order to avoid misunderstandings.
WHy we talk?
The main reason why we all talk is to make friends and with GEO to solve a problem or get some information. As both international and exchange students we all participate in different activities that GEO has for us. Some of us take classes together or even live together but since we are all very different, academically, there is not a pattern. Whenever we need to solve a problem regarding some legal purposes GEO office is our only point of contact, usually we just go to the walk-in hours and talk face to face to an advisor.
genres
One of the genres that we use is profile. We use it pretty much for everything, we tell a lot of stories and we use this genre without noticing, the purpose of this genre is making an everyday story something extraordinary. The other genre we use is workplace tell-all, the important information that GEO has to share is put on the public spot so as to let everyone be aware of it.