Since it is quite messy in my blog and I changed the researching field a little bit from term 3 starts, I decided to build this catalog with the links that related to recent question.
I got a lot of new information in the activity on Friday. (Do not take tube when tube strike…)
The schedule of this activity in V&A museum on Friday is: random play dance, a dance workshop and performances, then another random play dance. I arrived at the first random play dance and stopped four Chinese girls that I didn’t know before randomly for interview after that. They did not want to show their faces so I put my camera down to the ground.
Interview after the random play dance
Me:”I want to ask, how do you know about this activity?”
Girl A:”I saw the post of Red.” Red is where I posted the event.
Me:”Ah, that should be from me!”
A:”Maybe so.”
Girl B:”I’m from UCL, and I joined the Kpop society, they shared this.”
Me: “If you don’t use the Red, you don’t know about it, do you?”
Girl C:”It seems that there is really no way to know.”
Me:”Do you guys use Instagram?”
They all:”Very less.”
Me:”Did you dance with foreigners before? Or have you ever….”
They:”No.” “Sometimes I do! I’ll go to dance studio. Does that ok? There were many foreigners in The Hub, you know that studio?”
Me:”Then you have never danced with foreigners like in a small crew, or like do K-Pop cover?”
They:”Not yet.”
Me:”So why don’t you join their workshop and feel the atmosphere of dancing with most foreigners? Form my experience, maybe when I go to the class in Krew Dance Studio, there were more Chinese people. When I took a break, I saw Chinese people gather together to speak Chinese. Then the only foreigner of that class was quite embarrassed and no one spoke to her. So either you can join their workshop and feel it, and then I will wait. Can I come back and interview your feelings? “
These girls readily agreed to my proposal and joined the workshop.
At the same time, I also asked my friend Aijing to participate in the workshop. She is a ballet dancer. Since last year, she has also started to learn some dance styles such as hiphop. She never danced to K-Pop. This is her first K-Pop workshop.
My friend Aijing was taking her first K-Pop workshopA front view of the workshop
After they participated in the workshop, I interviewed them again.
Girl B said: “When I went to UrbanKpopDance to have a class, I had a class with many, many foreigners. That day, the teacher asked us to sit around in a circle at the end of the class, and then we danced together. The atmosphere was super good. Just now after the workshop ended, they also let us dance together. However, if foreign people are playing some music at will, and then they gather there like now (she pointed the people behind us), I don’t dare to go there to join them, I think they will not pay attention to me, which will embarrass me. “
I said, “So you mean you need someone to lead you, right?”
B said, “Yes. I also went to class in Krew dance studio and there was a white girl. During the break, I saw that she seemed confused about some bits. I wanted to talk to her, but she just gave me few words.”
I said, “What do you think causes them to ignore you? Is it because you look like an Asian, or do we really have language barriers?”
She said, “I think both they are.”
I said, “Do you think if your English is at the level of native speaker, they will accept you more?”
She said, “I think it might be. There will be no linguistic misunderstanding.”
While we were talking, a group of people with non-Asian-looking were dancing to music not far behind us. I tried to take this girl to join them, but at that moment I lacked a bit of courage. When this girl saw that I was not too brave to go forward, she also worried that we would get some bad reaction or that we would not be accepted by those people. In the end, we didn’t go forward.
Interview after their joining the dancing workshopThe international people were dancing, and we did not think we can join them
And at the 2nd random play dance, I also met a white girl who seems a little bit aggressive, which made me feel a little bit annoyed.
However, for the 2nd random play dance, the girls (the blue hoodie) I interviewed joined it at the back of the people.
Findings
According to today’s interaction, I got some findings that:
Someone really saw my content published on Chinese social media and knew that I would attend, so they went to this event. It shows that this is effective. If a Chinese person publishes these contents on Chinese social media, they will be seen and have the courage to go to a safe environment that is completely unfamiliar to them. Based on the research and my experience on marketing, I think this is a branding method for local dance studios to do marketing in Chinese social platform, in order to lead the Chinese to engage.
If you want to achieve the goal of “encouraging Chinese people to dance with foreigners”, you really need a person to do this example and lead them. Sometimes this person can not be me, can not be a Chinese, can be their teacher in class.
Language is a big barrier. In my experience, most Chinese people want to be close to foreigners who can speak Chinese, because Chinese is their comfort zone. It is not easy to encourage people to jump out of the comfort zone and communicate with others, because everyone wants to live in the comfort zone, especially Chinese students who have been suppressed for a long time and pushed. Based on my experience of making friends with people from different countries, it seems like non-Chinese male are more confident with their English, though it sounds bad (especially from some of my Indian friends and Malaysian friends).
For the last finding, this is a quite common thing I felt for most Chinese people especially newly coming here, also for new coming me in Feb. When I sent email to some of the local crews, I sent with “forgive my poor English”, and I even said no any single word with them for our first meet. I was only listening to them just because I got good grade for listing of my IELTS test. I mean, I can only listen, I can understand what they are saying, but I cannot say any single word because I am afraid to make myself misunderstood. Although I changed a lot during this year, as I said, I feel it is quite common for Chinese.
Additional stuff
【Full video of the Friday night live: https://youtu.be/aMHsR3qwmDE】
(I don’t know how to put the video directly into the blog…..I don’t know how Jiang did that)
Some related experience on stereotype about people dancing to K-Pop from me
My friend Chloe, a native of Nanjing, China, is a undergraduate student of Psychology at UCL. Because of the epidemic, she has taken online classes for one year and gap for another year in China. In August, she asked me if she could dance with me when she returned to London. At the same time, she also asked me who can dance very well in London, because she didn’t know anything about the current dance environment in London. I sent her the Instagram homepage of some dancers I know. These dancers are from Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and other places.
However, when Chloe returned to London, she was still dancing with Chinese people. Until she joined UCL Kpop Society, she had the opportunity to dance with foreigners.
At the end of October, I participated in London Comic con. On the day of my performance, there was a Random Play Dance. As a RPD queen in London (Local dancers gave me the name), I would certainly not be absent. At the same time, I invited Chloe, because she was the person I knew in China’s Random Play Dance. I invited her to join me in the Random Play Dance held by foreigners. She came, but after she finished dancing, she said, “Those white people are too aggressive. I’m afraid, and I’m afraid that you guys will fight.”
【”The dance fight”(actually it is just a random play dance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbLQDXXc_zU&t=1049s】
17:44, everyone can see the boy and I were standing in front of the camera.
But actually it was even worse in last Comic Con in May. This is the video and just turn to 13:33.
When I shared this second to my friends who did not go to this event, they are like “Oh shit! He is staring at you.”
Other friends and I have also discussed the aggressive people I met on random play dance and mentioned them in tutorial. In the end, he took the initiative to follow my instagram which changed my mind a little bit. Maybe he does not have bad ideas on me? Maybe he is nice when not dancing?
However, although he and many people follow each other, everyone’s impression of him is too aggressive.
Short interview with K-Pop dancer friends from Korea and Thailand
Today, my friends came to my home to practice dancing. I had an interview with Sunny and Chan from UJJN dance crew.
But first of all, I gave an example, which is also my own personal experience. I actually have stereotype towards Indians, because I have never reached out to Indians before I came to the UK. Even in my undergraduate course, a Chinese university and a British university jointly run a school, I only contacted British and Korean foreigners. My impression of Indians comes entirely from literary works. As well as my Indian teacher in my sophomore year, his Indian accent makes me think that all Indians have the same accent. But my Indian friend Nehal is not. Although he grew up in India, he speaks fluent American English; Neither is his girlfriend Gunjen. She grew up in Macao and can even speak Cantonese that Cantonese can understand (Xueqing/Xeni once came to take part in our shooting, and she understood Gunjen’s Cantonese when she was a college student in Shenzhen).
Sunny said, “I have a friend from Africa. Everyone thinks she can dance African dance, but that girl is very uncomfortable with African dance. That girl can dance hip hop very well.”
Chan said: “In fact, many people think that white people can’t dance, but white people can actually dance very well.”
[Some dialogues are omitted here, because I mentioned the person mentioned in the tutorial, and then everyone said I was right, but I can’t release this part of the video for this interview, because it will cause disputes]
At the end of the interview, I told them my research questions and mentioned how K-Pop encourages Chinese and foreigners to communicate more.
Sunny said, “Yes, I have the same feeling. I think Chinese people only hang out with Chinese people. So when I see you dancing K-Pop with some people who are not Chinese, I think it’s amazing. I never thought it would happen. Even Comedian and Krew are places where only Chinese people are.” （OK I think that’s why they like me）
I said, “I think one of the reasons is that we use different social media. So I posted a post about local dance groups on Chinese social media a few days ago, and someone commented on me, ‘Oh, Sunny is in UJJN.’ I think maybe they don’t need Instagram to do some research to find someone to dance with. “
“There are many Chinese who don’t even have Instagram,” Chan said
I said, “Yes, that’s why Krew did a two-week social media promotion to promote their Random Play Dance.”
Therefore, it further proves that I should upload the content of local dance groups in London on Chinese social media, so as to encourage Chinese people to communicate with these foreigners more.
【A simple talk about this part with my friends: https://youtu.be/dUHRVrdM4VM】
Promotion on Chinese Social Media
Based on the above, Azule dance crew in London will hold two random play dances, one dance workshop and one performance in V&A museum Hallyu exhibition this Friday. I asked them if they allow me to help them promote in China’s social media, exchange is to have an interview with me.
After I posted this promotion, several Chinese students replied at the bottom of my post that they would like to participate. I sent a private letter to one of them and asked if I could interview her after the event.
My suggested questions are:
1. Do you have instagram? If I didn’t send this post, wouldn’t you know there was a random dance activity?
2. If foreigners invite you to dance with them in the future, will you want to dance with them?
3. Do you think K-Pop will influence you and encourage you to dance with foreigners?
However, as my interview skills are not very good, I am sure I will change my questions on the day…..
Dr. Um is the Hallyu representative from the Korean government in the UK. One of my Spanish friend happened to know her when he was dancing at LOKO a few years back and she was doing studies around the effects of Kpop in bridging cultural gaps.
Since this is a Korean language reference, I think it is better for me to translate what gave me impression and what I cite in my final report.
Translation: The cultural policy related to the efforts made by South Korea to improve its national brand can be seen as a cultural diplomatic tool to advocate the Korean Wave or South Korea’s “soft power”. According to Nye, “soft power” is not coercion or payment, but the ability to use attraction to get what you want (Nye 2004). In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea issued the Cultural Diplomacy Manual in 2011, which aims to cooperate with a variety of government cooperation agencies and overseas diplomatic departments to develop effective strategies and harmonious projects, which also deserves attention. The diffusion of the Korean Wave (see page 24 of the Manual) is one of the main topics of diplomatic projects to obtain “soft power” (see Jang and Paik 2012; Nye and Kim 2013)
Totally agree with the explanation of “Soft Power”…
Translation: All these cosmopolitan theories can be used to explain and analyze global K-pop consumption. Cosmopolitanism also offers useful insights into how we understand cosmopolitanism in terms of social and cultural conditions, world outlook, attitude, ability, and sense of identity. If we recognize that the characteristics of the global youth culture in the 21st century are the dynamic diversity and mixture of global culture and local culture (Nilan and Feixa, 2006), K-pop provides a very useful foothold, which can deeply explore the occurrence of transcending national boundaries, participation, appropriation, adaptation, meaning, etc.
Translation: The British K-pop fan group is characterized by its multicultural and multi-ethnic composition, which reflects the demography and cultural diversity of modern British society. The “ethnoscape” (Appadurai 1990) of the UK K-pop fan group is composed of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, white people and different nationalities. It is worth noting that overseas students, contract workers and other short-term non British residents account for a significant part of the K-pop population.
I cite this in my final report as the demographic evidence. This supports my research question to some extent, because I want to help the people who are newcomers (but not immigration).
Ok, newcomers, this word confuses me a lot. Newcomers, but not only newcomers.
Recently socialise working and thoughts for myself
A few days ago, I found a girl on Chinese social media. Last year she was a member of SNH48, a Chinese girl idol group. After she got the offer of graduate from UCL, she left the idol group and came to the UK to study for a postgraduate degree. I saw the video of her dancing with Chinese people in London on her Chinese video platform channel, so I directly sent her a message asking whether she havs Instagram. She said no, and then we exchanged WeChat (China’s WhatsApp).
At the same time, I thought of my undergraduate junior schoolmate (I don’t know if this expression is correct, because people told me that there is no such expression in the UK), Jia. She is a super good dancer, but no one knew her when she first came to London in September this year. No one knows how good she is. Before she came to London, I asked her to get off the plane and register Instagram immediately, so that more people could know her; At the same time, I also told London dancers I knew in advance that there will be a very good dancer coming to Imperial College in September, and I hope they can know each other. With my introduction, Jia was known and appreciated by many people in her first month in London.
This situation also came to other talented Chinese dancers. From my experience in China, I have different way to let people know I am a good dancer. One way is that I have social media channels on different social platforms. I can put the location information whenever I upload something. Then people whose signal location are the same as mine, they might see my post on the first page of the social platform based on the algorithm. In China, we call it “I blushed you”. So if people blush me, they will see the content I post and be like “Wow! This girl comes to my city!” The second is, we have many offline K-Pop events to participate, such as random play dance. From my opinion, the reason why there are a lot this offline K-Pop event is, Chinese people (especially university students) have been locked up for too long physically and mentally, so once they have the opportunity to go out, they will come out.
I always fly to different places to take part in these events in China, as well as I do in London, but for other people, because they are new here, they do not know where to go.
New intervention idea
So I came up with an idea of an intervention, which is to publicize these local communities and competitions on Chinese social platforms, and put “for new comers” in the title. Because many new comers do not use Instagram or other foreign social platforms, they are relatively in an information blocked environment, so they lack a research tool and a channel to join these communities. Actually, I do not know if it could be an intervention, but that is what I think I need to do.
I already posted the first post of “Know about K-Pop in London in 2 minutes! Local crews part” on the most commonly used Chinese social media platform for Chinese students, and got 34 likes and 14 “Join my collection”.
But at the same time, I am also thinking about why I have the internal drive to research these local dance crews. I think it is because, compared with others, K-Pop dance is more important in my mind (although I did not take it as that serious), but may not be so important in others’ lives, so there is no need to do a lot of research in this area.
I use intervention 3.1 because I think this will lead to a further intervention process, so this is only the part 1 of the intervention 3.
Before I came to London, I searched about K-Pop society in London universities and learned about UCL K-pop society (https://www.instagram.com/uclkpopsociety/), KCL Hallyu K-pop society (https://www.instagram.com/kclhallyu/), etc. At the same time, I found that there was no specific K-Pop society in UAL, that was why I did not know where to go or what to join at first.
According to my research questions, I set up a questionnaire to investigate how much the students of the Chinese Student and Scholars Association (CSSA) know about the school’s dance society. The main respondents of this questionnaire are Chinese students who have joined the dance club of UAL’s CSSA.
If people say ‘yes’ to the first question, then it will goes to second question; if ‘no’, then the third one.
The questionnaire will end for the people choose “I don’t dance to K-Pop”, while go on for others.
The result of the survey is that, half of the people know that UAL has a Student Union dance club besides the dance club of the CSSA, but 80% of them do not join this dance club. Two thirds of the people who dance to K-Pop dancing know that other universities (such as UCL) have a specific K-Pop society. At the same time, two thirds of the people think that UAL needs a specific K-Pop society, instead of the current situation, Chinese students only dance to K-pop in the dance club of CSSA. (The bold one is the value from this questionnaire I think)
Interview
I learned that the K-Pop dance style in the dance club of the student union was founded by JT Yang, a graduated student, a Chinese girl who immigrated from China to London when she was 11 years old.
I reached out to JT and asked her why she founded this. She told me that she liked K-pop, but she found there was no K-Pop dance after she came to the UAL, so she founded it.
Then I asked her, “Why you just start this dance style in the dance club instead of creating a new K-Pop society like other universities?”
She said: “Because I only like K-Pop dance, I’m not interested in other things in K-pop, such as movies and dramas. At that time I was in Year 2, and my schoolwork was busy, so I just want to add one category to dance club.”
So I asked her if she knew about the Produce 101 event held by Reading University and the University K-Pop Society competition organized by KCL.
She said, “I don’t know about Produce 101 event. The reason why I didn’t participate in the University K-Pop Society competition because this was founded in the year of Covid. I also wanted to participate in some competitions, but there was no thing I could do.”
I shared the results of the questionnaire with JT, and said “See, there are people looking for someone to start a K-Pop society in UAL.”
But JT said “I already graduated, and you are gonna graduate, it is too late~~”
At the same time, I reached out to Kiki Lin, the person in charge of the dance club in CSSA, and asked the same question. She said she knew nothing about it. But after I told her these things, I could see from her words that she was very interested in them.
Addition: KCL held the University K-Pop Society dance competition in April this year. I discussed with Sunny Lee, one of the judges of the competition, that why UAL did not participate in the competition. He said maybe because UAL did not have a specific K-Pop Society.
In order to understand this easier, let’s see the picture below.
Here is my personal experience. In my undergraduate school (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), we have K-Pop dancing club and Kpop club. The two club have different functions, but from the classification of the names, it is easy to know that K-Pop club does everything about K-Pop except dancing, and K-Pop dancing club only works for dancing. I worked 1-year as the leader of the dance club and 3-year as a behind the scenes producer in K-Pop dancing club for my 4-year undergraduate life.
In fact, even now I still work as a senior planning people for them.
In London, except for the UAL without K-Pop society, the K-Pop society of these schools is equivalent to integrating the two associations of our undergraduate school. But from my observation, I think they put the emphasis on dancing as well, not much about other Korean stuff.
Addition:
Anyways, I uploaded “New idea” to Arts SU about this.
I got the feedback from the SU and they suggested me to open a new society.
On 27th Oct I had my 2nd dancing workshop with some cross-cultural people from China (mostly), India, Korea, Austria and Russia, ageing from 20 to 28.
Some of them know each other already, but some are not, so in order to avoid embarrassment, I put the formations closely but not that close, since the moves are quite simple (I changed another dance from last time).
One of my friends who is really talented in dancing was in the workshop, however, at first I asked him to hide his talent (actually he didn’t need to do so because the dance was so simple) and when we filmed the dance, at the end of the filming, he started doing his freestyle stuff and everyone was cheering for him.
I only got time to interview one people right after that workshop, so I asked a Korean guy who was growing up in India (because I think he is quite ‘cross-culture’). It was so nice for him to join this workshop, and he was interested about my project. He said, because he works in a multinational company, he believes that such a cross-cultural community can help people eliminate prejudice and better prevent intentional crimes due to racial discrimination.
But as I talked with my tutor in tutorial, some Chinese girls, especially the Chinese girls who met some colored(?) men for the first time, are polite on the surface, but in fact, I can see from their words and deeds that they distinguish themselves from these men in their hearts.
In fact, I can fully understand these kind of thing, because at the beginning, I met these people in the same way. But maybe there is a part of my personality that is boy, so in my long time with them, I may regard myself more as a boy, which will reduce some estrangement in my heart.
Another reason is that there are boy group dance and girl group dance in KPOP. The Chinese girls I mentioned above are generally girls who only dance girl group dance, while I am a girl who also dance boy group dance, so this may be the reason why I can get along better with these foreign guys.
At the same time, I also interviewed a Chinese girl who helped me film. She said that one of her girl friend kept her away from an Indian boy because he was too ‘warm’. “Most Chinese girls think he has a very flirty social style”, so that they became good friends six months after they met. This is indeed the case, because I have also told my new friends in London who can be friends and who should not be contacted. But the Chinese girl found that the Indian boy was a good friend in her later contact. In my opinion, this may also be why Chinese girls may prefer to make friends with gays.
Some paper said shared activities like dancing help students form and maintain friendships. So I came up the idea of whether collaborative dancing could help people who haven’t met before to build friendship.
I messaged some course mates and invited them to the workshop, and when I got their reply for coming or not, I secretly asked the same amount (in fact is only 1) of my friends as the “stranger” to my course mate, to test whether dancing could engage cross-cultural people. However, as I said, I asked only one stranger (thanks to Arnold), which means I got only one course mate (thanks to Yung), unluckily, they both are Chinese.
Anyways, we had a good time during the workshop. It was also fun for me to instruct absolute beginner.
So the response for me from Yung was, he was afraid to dance with a stranger (especially I didn’t tell him about this before), but when they started to talk, he was not that nervous about stranger. And he thought the personalities of the people in the circumstance are quite important, because my friend Arnold was also outgoing as Yung, they can easily start to talk to each other.
And from the less response from my course mates, I think I set the target wrongly. My targets should be those who already love dancing but never trying to engage with people from different culture.
My next step is already planned, for this Thursday. I asked two of my dancing mates, one is Chinese and one is non-Chinese, and ask them to bring me some friends from their culture.
I went to Paris on 22nd Sep to take part in a KPOP random play dance event, and that was my first time to travel abroad to do what I like. I went there with 3 course mates. After the YouTuber uploaded the video, I posted some comment which related to my project and got some feedback to my comment.
From the comments you can see that, some people around the world know me from what I did when I was in China. They know that, “oh, this girl is from Chinese random play dance organisation, now she is study in the UK.”
The Korean comment was saying “She is famous in Shanghai’s KPOP RPD, now she is studying in the UK and then travel to France to take part in this RPD. To some extent, this is the biggest achievement for KPOP, right?”
To some extent, this related to my project. The YouTuber “created a community” which is for KPOP fans, dancers and some YouTube viewers. The community is under his channel, or let’s say it is his channel. He held these events to gather people who have connection to the community, such as me. Then, me, as a representative from a Chinese community, jumped into the international one, with some people knew and some people didn’t know me before, (I think) I am like the uncertainty, to break some existing circle, to connect the Chinese community with the international one.
I said “connect”, just because I think, nowadays, it is very difficult for Chinese people to come out and participate in such events. And because of the Covid pandemic, the famous Chinese isolation policy, some non-Chinese people will build higher cultural barrier inside their heart. Furthermore, because Chinese government build the wall to ban Chinese people from using YouTube, sometimes we cannot see directly what other people think about us, which will also build their stereotype.
So I think, what I did is like a break and connection between the two community.
1st Negotiation with the “gate keeper”
On 14th Oct I reached out to one of the manager of the dance club of the Chinese students association in UAL face to face. I had a small talk with her about the plan of gathering the KPOP team in dance club and our dance club. However, she refused my advice, with the reason of “if I use the club to do my project, people will copy me and do what as I do” and “there is no slot for me to do this in campus’s activity room”.
To some extent, I think her reasons are reasonable, but not that much. However, just because I got Covid last week, I was not that smart to negotiate with her about this.
David mentioned about the word “gate keeper”, and encouraged me to negotiate with her once more, to see if there is difference with the result of the intervention.
Travel to Barcelona
Last weekend I travelled to Barcelona alone to take part in another random play dance event, alone, wow. I have no knowledge of Spanish (maybe hola), no friends there, and I never travelled to Spain, and my parents don’t know I was so crazy.
What I did was, I searched for some Chinese students in Barcelona who is going to the dance event through the Chinese social media, and luckily I found a girl and her friend (well, they are 6 and 7 years younger than me….). I asked them to be my guide, and I said I would teach them how to dance for return.
On the day of the event, we had a small workshop in the gym of my hotel in Barcelona, then we went to the place.
Then for the video and the comments.
The comments were as usual, and I was really impressed by the one who said “You’re an inspiration for the K-POP community!”
But this time I found a comment that might related to the project.
The Korean comment was saying “You are not Chinese… You are Korean, I hate China.”
Actually I am a person who does not like to reply these kind of comment, because I think that will make me be in a storm, but this time I think I need to reply to him/her, because I think it is what I want to do to clean the stereotype, to lower the cultural barrier, even though I have no idea of why this viewer commented like that. The difficulty was I think I cannot only say “Don’t say that” or “No”, I think I need to say those mildly. And I am so happy to see that there is a like when I made this screenshot.
Funny supplement to this:
I talked about this with David, David encouraged me like, “he said he hate China, not Chinese, not you, right? Is this the same as maybe you like K-Pop but you do not like Korea?”
Based on the new question and new intervention idea, I created a dancing workshop as an intervention. I sent the call-out announcement in the course’s WhatsApp group chat.
Although some classmates replied to this message, no one came to this workshop.
To reflect on this, I think the reasons why they didn’t come are:
they are not interested in dancing (or KPOP dancing), so they don’t wanna spend time on this. (From Xueqing’s feedback to this, always). As my previous experience, people who are interested in KPOP are more likely to be Asian and black people, but my classmates are mainly white people so…..maybe!
Rishkandha said she’s too shy to dance, and it is the problem that people will have.
The time I set was during the working time in weekdays, and maybe E14 is quite far so people don’t wanna come.
People in the course are not that familiar with me, so maybe they don’t think they need to help me. (not blame on this, this is just some thing with common sense?)
Got the info from my classmates just now, they thought it was this week not last week.
Carrie said I need to DM everyone, because she wants to come but she doesn’t read the message from WhatsApp.
