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Capstone Post #3 – Interview

While I have been researching and taking notes on my topic, “rescue dogs,” I have been preparing for my interview with a girl named Jessica. Jessica works for a non for profit rescue dog organization called, Tracysdogs. I decided to interview her because I knew she could give me a lot of information on rescue dogs mostly because she works for a rescue dog organization.

Before I actually had my interview, I first had to find a person to interview, then I had to find a date that I can interview the person, and then I had to come up with some questions for the person that I will be interviewing.

The first step was easy. Why was it easy for me, is what you might be wondering so let me tell you why. My family has lots of experience with adopting rescue dogs from different organizations so they might know a few people that I can interview. Lately my parents have been looking at a rescue organization called, “Tracysdogs.” They once tried to adopt a dog from that organization and that’s how they got to meet a few people from that organization. I then thought that since my parents probably have somebodys contact that works at TracysDogs, I can maybe text them if I can interview them. And that’s how I found Jessica.

Then comes the second part, figuring out a time to have my interview. Since Jessica was in Texas at that time I knew seeing her in person was not an option. So then I knew that I could interview her over the phone, which would be easier to find a time because she doesn’t have to spent extra time flying to New York for me to interview her. I was thinking about my schedule over the next couple of weeks and I thought Wednesday at 5:00 would be perfect. So I texted her that time and it worked out perfectly!

Next was coming up with some questions that I wanted to ask Jessica. For a start, for five of my questions I just asked my five sub questions that maybe I could get a little more information on. Then I just started coming up with some questions that are more specific and maybe more towards her. At the end of this easy process, I didn’t have  a lot of questions but I thought, “hopefully I can get a lot of information on them.”

The last and most fun part was the interview! A little bit after school I got set up for my interview. I called her up and started asking some questions and I recorded the whole interview with her over the phone. It took me a little bit of time to start getting comfortable talking to her but after a couple of minutes, I started to feel more comfortable. After the interview was done, I took some notes on the video at school. Sadly I didn’t get as much information as I would have liked to have gotten, but luckily I was welcomed to interview her again. I had really fun preparing for my interview and actually interviewing her.