Affordance

Connection/ action properties


plot of the story

Opening night of the world cup and I was in Auckland. I was with my cousin's and my boyfriend, two of my cousin's came over from Italy there names are Niko and Luca. We were waiting for the fireworks to start and we were sitting in the Parnell Rose Gardens with hundreds of other people.

I happened to have cards in my pocket from the plane ride, I got them out because my two younger cousin's Niko and Luca were getting a bit restless waiting for the fireworks to start. So I started off with asking them if they wanted to play a game of cards and a discussion began with what game we would play, Luca didn't know many card games and so we decided to play a game he had played before last card.

I explained the game because Luca and Niko hadn't played for a while and needed to be refreshed as to how to play. Luca can't speak English all that well and sometimes I speak to fast for him so I asked Niko to explain the rules to him in Italian to ensure he knew what he was doing and then we started playing.

By this time it was dark and was a bit hard to see, some kind people next to us saw this and gave us a flashlight that we could use. We began to play as we were playing there were discussions on the rules and tactic's.

As people became more confident in the game a bit of competition started and there was less conversation and more concentration on the card playing and trying to win, we played 3 games and stopped because our food came.

Communication

• Listening to the rules
• Form of communication about the cards gives everybody a topic to talk about
• Also a form of communication that is non-verbal it gave the kids who couldn't speak English so well a chance to have a break from speaking English and still be able socialise with us.
• Provides an environment where we could have banter about the cards and joke with each other
• Asking permission if they wanted to play giving them a chance to decide if they want to play or not.
• I took the role of the organiser, organising the cards and giving out the intructions
• Graditude in providing an activity for them to do and for the flash light 
• negotiation around what rules we were going to play.

Moral Properties

GOOD                                                                   BAD

Friendly                                                           Competive

Taking the competative side out of it because we were playing to pass time

Level Playing field                                               non-level playing field

making sure that everyone knew how to play and knowing the rules