My questions took longer than I thought they would. I had to think of questions that kept the conversation going, also known as green light questions. These questions can not have an answer that is one word these questions have to be full sentences my questions were simple but I tried to make as many as I could green light here are some of them:
- Why did you leave your country?
- Can you tell me about the government in your homeland at the time?
- Did your age cause any problems from entering the US?
- Did you have to leave any family members behind? If so were you able to keep in touch with them?
- Was it hard leaving or exciting? What made it so?
- Describe your first day and days when arriving in the U.S.
- Was America what you expected? Better or worse?
- How has your life changed since you came to this country?
- If you had not immigrated, what do you think your life would be like today?
- Did you/ attend school in the US? If so what was it like for you?
- Describe your first job?
- What were some of your favore new foods?
- What do you miss most about your Homeland?
- How did you grow as a person throughout immigrating based off
- something that happened to you?