Intercultural Communication project

For my cultural immersion project I've narrowed it down to analyzing the ping pong club and also to visit the nearest church to me and observing how the act amongst each other and how they go about relating to the world. So far I'm hoping to join the ping pong tournament if i can find the sign up sheet. This should allow for a good start to immersing myself. I also want to actually join the club as this will allow for follow up exposure. At the same time I am going to start attending the Sunday sermons at the nearest church to me, which happens to be right down the street from me. I have never attended any church sermon at any point in my life. My parents never went when I was growing up so I was never subjected to it. Not only that but no one in my close family goes to church either. All my Aunts and Uncles and cousins as well as my remaining grandparents go. The only time I have attended a church was during weddings and funerals. The funny thing is I always despised it when they started to get into the religious preaching during both those occasions. I always felt like they were trying to tell me how to live my life and felt like they strip your individuality. To me they always seemed worse than the army. It always irked me and often soured the event for me. Maybe it was because they were so forward and in your face and never seemed to really give a crap how you felt. Almost like the was an impenetrable wall of ignorance on their part. Like those people who come around to your house, not just the Mormons, it doesn't matter how many different ways you tell them no they just keep trying to pressure you into it. Sorry if anyone has been offended by this blog, their just my own thoughts and opinions. As you can see this whole part about attending the sermons should be quite a momentous task for me. At the same time, it is an excellent intercultural communication scenario for me, due to the fact that I have never effectively communicated or tried to understand religion from anywhere but my own point of view and its has always led to my becoming irritated and wanting nothing to do with it. Even after writing this post I'm starting to lean towards observing religion more than ping pong just because I myself have always avoided any communication involving religion. It would be an excellent learning experience for me.