Cultural Interview

Who knew that by getting assign to interview someone who you don’t know that is also a classmate, that we were eventually to find out more about them. There were some parts where I believe we both struggle but other than that it was a great experience and did help me get out of my comfort zone. We did ask each other some questions, but at a point we struggled to ask more question about each other because the questions we would come up with would just give us more similarities on each other, but it wasn't hard to listen at the same time as asking question or thinking about more questions. The other reason that made us struggle was that typically i'm not the person to just start a conversation with someone who I don’t know. Therefore, the stumbling
What's going to stay with me is asking people question to get to know them because you get to know what they are into or who they are. It's important to to know different cultural traditions not just our own because if you know other culture you would be able to understand certain things and situation in their perspective. The thing that surprised me while communicating with our partner was that we didn't know each other and we had some similarities and were able to communicate because we could understand each other on our difference once we knew about. This did give me a better perspective on my partner's culture and challenges in college in the matters that how hard they try and why they are so into school there situation on how important school is to them. My experience with the interview has taught me that I need to be out there more and communicate with more people to get out of my comfort zone, have been able to create more friendship with different people in college. To understand more about others cultural tradition, and being to understand their hard work, the struggles they have to go through to able to continue school or their career life.
These were a few things on how our conversation went we had many similarities and differences, but our goal was to find the difference in each other. To be able to understand each other situation on why they have those tradition and how they celebrate through the holidays. We also might of had some awkward and uncomfortable situation. Also, was a great learning experience that will stick with me from here and on through my college years and my adulthood