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Capstone #4

May 29, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Like I said in the last post in capstone you need a site visit and interview. I told you about the site visit in the last post and now I here to talk about the interview. I interviewed Joanna Sanchez. The manager of the W downtown, a four star hotel. You will learn about my exsence interviewing someone and I will give you a hint … IT WAS A LOT OF FUN!

For me which I know was a whole other story for some other people but for me I found a interview pretty quick. Once I told my mom and dad about this and because my dad works at a hotel right away he knew someone. “Her name is Joanna Sanchez and you will be interviewing her on May 21 at 8:00 am,” my dad told me. At first I did not know what to expect. I also thought it was going to be weird. I thought that she would feel weird to. And I was scared that the audio would be weird when I was going to record it one my phone like it was for my immigration interview. But then I started to think what is the worst that can happen. I mean not a lot of things can go wrong. And things that can go wrong there not that bad. So when I started to think that things got better. Like when the day finally came I was ready!

The day finally came and I was so excited! But scared. But excited! More excited than scared though. Once we were at the office we were late because someone on the train got sick so all the trains had to stop. Once we got to Joanna’s room she was not there. I was scared that she would be a know show. She came! I was so happy. She said she ran into the same problems on the train as me and my dad. It took her a few minutes to get ready but not to long. And once she was ready we started right away. I found that it was not weird and that I had nothing to be scared about. I went really well! I learned a lot about her as a person and about the hotel industry. It was a lot of fun! If could change one thing it would be how I sounded really shy. But that’s it.

In all I think me and my dad made the right choice to decide who to pick for my interview. I learned so much and I will make sure to use it in my research.

5th Grade, Social Studies

Immigration Project #2

April 22, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

I interviewed my mom Celina. I recorded her on my phone. I think that it went fine. What really surprised me that I had not known about my mom was that when I asked her “Did it feel weird not to talk in portuguese?” She responded with saying “I was very lucky that when I moved here I already spoke English so I was very very fortunate that I felt comfortable with the English langue” I was surprised that she already spoke English. I did not know that I thought that she had to learn English here.

But as you would think there were some things I already knew. For example when I asked my mom “What foods do you like more?” in the back of my head I was thinking Brazilian foods obviously. And guess what she said “I love Brazilian food.” I think that because I knew most of what my mom was going to say kind of took a little bit away from the experience but it was not all that bad. I still had a lot of fun interviewing my mom.

5th Grade, Social Studies

Immigration Project #1

April 4, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

So for the next few weeks my class had to interview an immigrant. You could interview anyone that lived in another country that now lives here right now. You also had to make questions for that person. I chose my mom. I think it was a easy choice because first she could help me with the questions and make sure she could answer them. Also because I can interview her anytime I want.

Again it was easy to pick who I was going to interview but making the questions were pretty hard. I think it was hard because you had to have 10 – 15 questions. But my teacher (Mrs. Cooper) gave us a paper to get ideas off of. Unfortunately I did the questions before she gave us the paper so I spent like 30 – 40 minutes trying to make questions when the next day I revised them all. I think that’s why it was really had for me. But when I revised my questions it was much easier. I think that interviewing my mom really brought me closer to her because I’m learning about all these things she did and or had to do that I had no idea about.