My first interview

(1)  Interview preparations:

I met Kevin in a class that I have with him and I asked him to make an interview for English class. Kevin is a business student in St Cloud State University, he is from Sothern china in a small town called Loudi, China. He has been her in the United States of America for two years. He accepted the invitation and we scheduled the meeting in Sunday afternoon in the library. I printed two copies of the questions that I will be asking him and meet him in the library. I gave him one copy of the questions and asked his permeation to record the interview.

(2)   Interview report:

 The interview went great I felt comfortable and the interviewee looked comfortable. The only thing that I didn’t do great is that I should have asked for more details in some of the questions  

(3)  Country Report:

China is country in East Asia and one of the biggest countries in the world. China is the most populated country in the world with more than 1.35 billion. China is located in Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam. China is slightly smaller then the US in size and the climate is similar to the US’s. China Geography is mostly mountains and high plateaus, and deserts in the west. In the east it is mostly plains, deltas and hills. China has many natural resources they are; coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest). The capital on China is Beijing. The government in China is communist but the people get to elect their president who can serve up to two five-year terms. China has many different festivals but the most important one is the Chinese New Year. This is the time when debts are settled and houses are cleaned. Time is spending with family and friends.

References

"Central Intelligence Agency." The World Factbook. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.           Retrieved from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-  factbook/geos/ch.html

(4)  Interview transcription

Faisal: How do you communicate with each other in your home country?

Kevin: We speck Chinese and when we communicate with each others we always use sell phones and use computers. And sometimes we go to a party and we eat together.

Faisal: What is the clothing style for men and women?

Kevin: For the clothing style do you mean traditional.

Faisal: Yes, the traditional.

Kevin: For the women we have qipao that’s for. And for the men we have tang suit.

Faisal: How do men and women dress now?

Kevin: dress like American people they wear suits very professional suit and young people wear fashion cloths. And women are more fashion and not many people wear traditional clothes.

Faisal: How are women and men treated differently?

Kevin: Women and men now are nowadays not a big difference anymore. I think the only difference maybe is in the politics, the women cannot be a very high position in the politics. The other things are the same, women can drive as the men, women can go to school as men, women has more rights. And maybe sometimes in some things have discrimination, because they regulate women having a baby. Because if you have baby you need to take care of the baby you don’t have time to do work and sometimes some companies need a man to do this kind of jobs, because the women not like a man in strength so that the women cannot do some very heavy work.  

Faisal: How has your experience here helped you interpret and respect cultural differences?

Kevin: Because I have experienced the culture shock. I heard that in Saudi Arabia they cannot eat pork. So I respect the cultural difference and I know that the women in Saudi Arabia need to wear scarf. So maybe if we are curious about scarf and we open it, is not allowed. It is really serious. When I first came to America I learned about those cultural things so I understand their culture and respect the cultural differences.  

Faisal: Do you enjoy speaking with other exchange students?

Kevin: Yes, I also speak with a lot of American people, But I more likely to speak with other exchange students. Because we all use other second language and we have more common living in The United States because we are Foreigners here. So I want to speak with them to know them and be friends with them.

Faisal: How long have you been in the United States?

Kevin: I have been here for two and a half years.

Faisal: Have you been able to visit any other parts of the United States?

Kevin: Yes. I went to a lot of places. I went to Miami, I went to Orlando, and I went to New York, I went to Chicago. 

Faisal: What are your home country’s major religions?

Kevin: My home country major religion is Buddhism Taoism.

Faisal: What influenced you to come to the United States? Especially, Saint Cloud State?

Kevin: I think why I came to here the thing, which really influenced me, is English. I came here to learn English. And get my English improve I knew American before I come here, I know that American as good as our imagination just they have bad things but they are still good. Maybe when I came here two and a half years ago they influenced my heart and my attitude. I think it makes me more mature than I was in China because I need to do any thing by my self and get help when I want to and may be no body can help you your self and it makes you think a lot you need to learn a lot of things, because it’s not like yore home country. When your parents will take care of you, you need to take care of your self. So it is really a challenge for us and we learn a lot from these challenges and we get more mature.

Faisal: And what made you chose Saint Cloud State?

Kevin: I choose this school because of my friend. He was here and he recommended this school to me and this school has very low tuition and this school kind of beautiful and good quality school. So I acme to here

Faisal: Do you have any questions for me?

Kevin: No, it is just nice to meet you.

Faisal: nice to meet you too.