Second interview with AD

    Interview preparations.  (When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview? Whom did you interview?)     

   How did you approach people?

This is my second interview, so I had experience about interview. We have to do three interviews, three interview need to interview people who comes from South Korea. My second interviewee also was my education class classmate. We have class on Tuesday and Thursday morning, so I made a phone call to her and asked she can we met before class. Her very pleasure to attended interview, she decided to meet at Thursday, and we meet at Education Building A119 room. The whole interview spends around 40 minutes. I use my laptop to make a video of my interview, and my interviewee does not mind I record the interview time.

Describe the interview. What did surprise you? How did the interview unfold?

The interview was begun at 10 AM. AD arrived at A119 room on time, we set at classroom and talk about the interview. AD said she was really nervous, because it was the first time that she did the interview. I said if record made her nervous, I can turn off my laptop. But she said that’s ok. Even if I did not record, she was still nervous.

    Interview report   

1.            I met with AD in Education Building room A119 on the 24th of October morning, the second interview cost around 40 minutes. Because it was the first time interview for AD, so she was really nervous. I tried to make her relax, at the first I asked AD about the Stcloud’s weather. This question is a general question, just talk about the daily life and make interviewee felt relax. Then we talked about her education life, her family, future goals, South Korea cultures and religions. Compare to the first interview, I got a litter bit different answer between YI (my first interviewee) and AD. I think the answers are based on personal opinions, so get different answers are normal.

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   Report on country/region and culture:

Cuisin

Korean cuisine, hanguk yori, or hansik, has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Ingredients and dishes vary by province. There are many significant regional dishes that have proliferated in different variations across the country in the present day. The Korean royal court cuisine once brought all of the unique regional specialties together for the royal family. Meals consumed both by the royal family and ordinary Korean citizens have been regulated by a unique culture of etiquette.

Korean cuisine is largely based on rice, noodles, tofu, vegetables, fish and meats. Traditional Korean meals are noted for the number of side dishes, banchan, which accompany steam-cooked short-grain rice. Every meal is accompanied by numerous banchan. Kimchi, a fermented, usually spicy vegetable dish is commonly served at every meal and is one of the best known Korean dishes. Korean cuisine usually involves heavy seasoning with sesame oil, doenjang, a type of fermented soybean paste, soy sauce, salt, garlic, ginger, and gochujang, a hot pepper paste.

Soups are also a common part of a Korean meal and are served as part of the main course rather than at the beginning or the end of the meal. Soups known as guk are often made with meats, shellfish and vegetables. Similar to guk, tang has less water, and is more often served in restaurants. Another type is jjigae, a stew that is typically heavily seasoned with chili pepper and served boiling hot.

Historically, dog meat as food was very popular in Korea. Today there are many restaurants in South Korea that serve dog meat dishes.

 Transcribe the interview. Interview transcription

Minjie= M

AD= A

M: Good morning A, did you enjoy party yesterday?

A: That’s was amazing, why you did not came yesterday?

M: I have to work! It was so sad.

A: Dam it, today is so cold.

M: Do you like the weather in St. Cloud?

A: So so.

M: can you explain it?

A: Oh, the interview is beginning?

M: Yes. Do not worry about the interview.

A: Ok, I mean I am just okay with the St. Cloud’s weather. It is pretty cold, but it has beautiful fall season.

M: What are you felt when you first time sew so much snow?

A: Em… actually can’t remember it. I think I suppose to be exciting.

M:  Are you live in St. Cloud? Where are you born?

A:  Yes, I live in St. Cloud. I am original from South Korea.

M: Live in campus or out of campus?

A: Out of campus. I am lived in campus last semester, but my roommate was really noisily, so I was moved out.

M: Ok. Did you undergo different culture?

A: Of course, I am undergoing different culture, I mean different education system.

M: Why you choose SCSU?

A: I choose SCSU, because SCSU has great education program.

M: Yes, it is awesome. I think that was the big reason why people choose Education Major.

What is kind of education major you are?

A: Elementary Education.

     M: Same as me. Why you choose you’re major?

A: Since I was young, I wanted to be a teacher. I liked my teachers when I was young.

M: in my childhood, my teacher is mine super hero.

A: I love kids you know, they are so cute.

M: But sometime they are noisily.

A: Totally.

M: How often do you communicate with your family back at home?

A: I call to my parents as much as I can.

M: My roommate call to her mother every day.

A: Is an American?

M: No, Chinese.

A: Come on that will be cost lots of money.

M: What is the biggest holiday in your country? Please explain about the holidays.

A: Our biggest holiday is Chinese New Year. All of relatives come together and share the foods, such as, dduck gook (rice cake soup) and all different kinds of foods.

M: I know they are delicious.

A: Yes, you know I love dumplings very much.

M: Really? I can make it for you.

A: God! Are you joking? Thank you.

      M: You welcome. Next question, in what ways might it be difficult to practice your religion here in the U.S?

A: It was not difficult to practice. It is pretty similar with in Korea, there are many people believe christen.

M: What’s the biggest difference between the American culture and your culture?

A: Grammar and characters.

M: I am super agreeing with you. What are your goals for the future; after you graduate, what are you going to do?

A: After I graduated from school, I would love to become a teacher in U.S.

M: Sounds great. What do you do for leisure?

A: I love to watch movies and shows.

M: What kind of movie?

A: Love movie.

M: I love too, but my boyfriend love horror movie. Tell me some important things from your culture?

A: That is we share everything with people around us.

M: Can you tell me something about yourself?

A: Well, I am a pretty nice person.

M: Haha… that is fun. Thank you for your time.

A: Hurry up, our class was beginning.

Work Cited

[1] South Korea. October 6, 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

Review of interview 1

1. Who scored highest?
2. Whose interview did you like best? Why?
3. Link to your evaluation score card (be sure to give public access for viewing!!)

1. Ruud, Justin D and Shi, Mengzhen got the highest score.

2. I like Alshammari, Faisal F’s post best. Even if he was not get the highest grade, but I like it. Faisal was work hard, his interview has displayed many detail, included culture, personally and family.

3. Evaluationscore card

First interview

(1)   Interview preparation:

  I think about my first interview in this whole week, I start to prepare my first interview after I finished my special education test. It was my first time to do the interview, it were challenging and experience for me. Tell a truth, I was really shy to interview the people. Frist, I write down my questions on my laptop and print it. Then, I read my questions list several times, it will help me relax in interview time. Last, I write down several sentences to connect the whole interview. I invited my special education classmate to attend my interview, because this week I was really busy, I do not have enough time to contact other people.

  At Thursday afternoon, I give a phone call to my classmate. We met at Caribou, we both were ordered the coffee and all of us were enjoyed the wonderful time. I used my phone to record the whole interview and my interviewee felt comfortable about it. I was supervising that my interviewee was a Korean but he has a half of Chinese descent.

(2)   Interview report

   I met with YI in Caribou on the 17^th of October afternoon, we interview around 1 hour. We talked about lots of things, all of us felt comfortable and enjoy about interview time. I prepare 17 questions to interview him. He name is YI, he come from South Korea and he was an exchange student. He told me that most of Korea students were exchange students, they finished their first three years of university in Korea then they come to United Stated to continue study. During the interview, I know many Korea culture and got information about YI. My first interview was very successful.

(3)   Country report

  South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula The name Korea is derived from Goryeoe, a dynasty which ruled in the Middle Ages. It shares land borders with North Korea to the north, and oversea borders with China to the west and Japan to the east. South Korea lies in the North Temperate Zone with a predominantly mountainous terrain. It comprises an estimated 50 million residents distributed over 99,392 km2. The capital and largest city is Seoul, with a population of 10 million.

   South Korea has a market economy which ranks 15th in the world by nominal GDP and 12th by purchasing power parity (PPP), identifying it as one of the G-20 major economies. It is a high-income developed country and is a member of OECD. It is the most industrialized member country of the OECD. South Korea is the only developed country so far to have been included in the group of Next Eleven countries. South Korea had one of the world's fastest-growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest-growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three Asian Tigers. South Koreans refer to this growth as the Miracle on the Han River. The South Korean economy is heavily dependent on international trade, and in 2010 South Korea were the sixth largest exporter and tenth largest importer in the world. Korea hosted the fifth G20 summit in its capital city, Seoul, in November 2010. The two-day summit was expected to boost Korea's economy by 31 trillion won, or 4% of Korea's 2010 GDP, in economic effects, and create over 160,000 jobs in Korea. It may also help improve the country's sovereign credit rating. Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, the country suffers damage to its credit rating in the stock market because of the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on South Korean financial markets. The International Monetary Fund compliments the resilience of the South Korean economy against various economic crises, citing low state debt and high fiscal reserves that can quickly be mobilized to address financial emergencies. [1]

(4)   Interview transcription

Minjie Zhu= M

Yi E=E

M: Good afternoon, my name is Minjie Zhu, during this interview I will ask you several questions, it will take around 1 hour, and did you mind it?

E: Oh, that’s Ok, my name is Yi E, I was really happy to attend interview.

M: Thank you for you attend, I will use my self-phone to record us conversation. Did you feel comfortable about it?

E: That’s fine, I don’t mind.

M: OK, let’s start. Do you like the weather in St. Cloud? Please explain

E: Of course not, first time I saw the snow I was surprise. My country was warm so I have never seen so much snow like this.

M:  Are you live in St. Cloud? Where are you born?

E: I was born in South Korea and I am living in St. Cloud now.

M: Could you please tell me about yourself?

E: Sure, you know I am a Korean, I am 23 years old. I like warm so I want to move to a warm place, such as Florida.

M: Do you feel comfortable about talk about your family?

E: Oh, no problem. I have a small size family, my father, my mother and my young sister. She is only 4 years old, I can show you pictures.  

M: Why you choose SCSU?

E: The university which in Korea and SCSU have cooperative relations. We are study in Korea for 3 years then study abroad for 1 year.

M: What is you major?

E: Accounting.

M: I heard it was very difficult.

E: Someone think it is difficult, but I enjoy it.

M: Why you choose you’re major?

E: I do not think too much, I just interested in it.

M: How often do you communicate with your family back at home?

E: I am studying in St. Cloud and my family is living in South Korea, we communicate through self-phone and we make phone call around once a week.

M: What is the biggest holiday in your country? Please explain about the holidays.

E: Korea’s holiday same as Chinese holiday, the biggest holiday was Spring Festival. In that day, people made food by themselves and all the family member will sit together to have dinner.

M: Wow, same as us

E: Yes, I believe that all the Asian countries have Spring Festival.

M:  Did you face any racist problems?

E:  No, I just heard a little bit, I don’t have experience about racist problem.

M: In what ways might it be difficult to practice your religion here in the U.S

E: I don’t have religion, so it is not a problem for me.

M:  What’s the biggest difference between the American culture and your culture?

E: This question is interesting. Em… the biggest difference is holiday. We celebrate different holiday.

M: What are your goals for the future; after you graduate, what are you going to do?

E: The goal for the future?  Sorry, I have no ideal. I will go back to South Korea then I hope I can find a great job.

M: What do you do for leisure?

E: 1000 million things can do. Playing game, listening music, chat with my friend etc. but never do the homework. Haha… just joke.

M: Tell me some important things from your culture?

E: Both of us come from Asian country, our cultures were same, and so I think you already know my culture.

M:  Do you have any questions for me? I have asked so many of you!

E: Are you enjoying our interview time?

M: Good question! I was really enjoyed.

E: We are already know each other, I do not have extra question ask you. I don’t want to interview you again. Haha…

M: You are so funny, I like stay with you. Thank you for your patience and thank you for your time. See you next Monday.

E: Bye-Bye.

Work Cited

[1] South Korea. October 6, 2013.

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

My final interiew questions

1. Do you like the weather in St.Cloud? Please explain.

2. Are you live in St. Cloud? Where are you born?

3. If you are not a local people, did you undergo different culture?

4. Could you please tell me about yourself?

5. Why you choose SCSU?

6. What is you major?

7. Why you choose you’re major?

8. How often do you communicate with your family back at home?

9. What is the biggest holiday in your country? Please explain about the holidays (Activities, Food, Date, Origin, and etc.)

10. Did you face any racist problems?

11. In what ways might it be difficult to practice your religion here in the U.S?

12. What’s the biggest difference between the American culture and your culture?

13. What are your goals for the future; after you graduate, what are you going to do?

14. What do you do for leisure?

15. Can you tell me something about yourself?

16. Tell me some important things from your culture?

17. Do you have any questions for me? I have asked so many of you! (Mandatory question at the end)

Interview questions

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Objective:

 Next week we will doing interview, I think I will interview American people. Because I am studying in USA now, it was necessary to know American culture. I will want to know my interviewee’s life style, religion, education questions.

Questions:

1.       Are you live in St. Cloud? Where are you born?

2.       If you are not a local people, did you undergo different culture?

3.       Why you choose SCSU?

4.       What is you major?

5.       Why you choose you’re major?

6.       What are your goals in the future?

7.       What is the biggest holiday in your country? How people celebrate it?

8.       Can you tell me something about yourself?

9.       Can you tell me some interesting and important things about your culture?

10.   Did you face any racist problems?

West and China change since 1500

Opium, and Self-Strengthening (1800-1921)

I find a book in library, it named is The West and China since 1500. I am Chinese and I am interested in Chinese history, I want to know what happen between west countries and China since 1500. I also search more information in another book and I want to share it with my classmates.

This book described and analytical the relationship was changing between China and West since 1500. It divided culture, economic and political into three. The first one is: Coming Together, Rather Slowly and on China’s Terms. It compared China and West economies. “This is not to suggest that china was economically backward compared to late mediaeval or early modern Europe. For its time traditional China’s was a quite sophisticated economy, in advance of Europe’s in the development of such techniques as paper money and credit transfers. “<1> In that periods, China was a unenlightened country and it is try to change.

The second is: Closer Encounters, on the West’s Terms. West realized that they also need change and development themselves. This book also talks about the opium trade. “Western nations are experiencing an outflow of silver bullion to China as a result of the imbalance of trade in China’s favor, and they bring opium into China as a commodity to trade to reverse the flow of silver.”<2>

The third one is: Hither and Thither, in Search of Comfortable common Ground. Both of China and West countries realized that they need overcome their differences and are trying to find out a new forms of cooperation

<1>The West and China since 1500. pg15

<2>China and the West: Imperialism, Opium, and Self-Strengthening (1800-1921): Imperialism

Libarary Book Review of Five Classmates

 

1.    Mengzhen Shi

She chose a book name is China Its History and Culture Fourth Edition. This book published on 1976.. It was distributed in the US and the book was talk about the China even city history and culture. The Chinese history is a challenge and a bewildering labyrinth.

2.      Doege, Brandon J

He interested in a book name is Vietnam the (last) war the U.S. lost. This book written by Joe Allen is about the Vietnam War in regards to how people saw the war unfold and their feelings towards the war.  Joe Allen said that "Yet for the generation of Americans who have come of age in the three decades since the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, the history of the war is practically forgotten.”

3.      Alhajri, Faisal M

He chose a book name is The Old Man and the Sea. This book I have saw it already. This book describes a story about an old man fishing and he never gives up when he cannot catch fish in 83 days. At the end of the 84 days, the old man was successful, he catch a big fish. I really love this book too.

4.     Peterson, Victoria A

She found a book called The Mummy. This book describes a lot of information about ancient Egyptian. The author pointed out that "it is pretty clear that no traces of their works or buildings have come down to us, and as skulls belonging to their time have not been found, any statement as to their race characteristics must be based on pure assumption".

5.       Hussain Alsufair

He was interested in Egyptian too. He chooses a book named is Modern Egypt. The book talk about Egypt’s national life plays a major role.

Presentation Outline

Group member: Alshammari, Faisal F,Bugshan, Zaid Ali A,Alrashed, Ali Abdulkhalq A,abdulaziz alduaijy , W, Zhu, MinJie

Hi everyone, today we going to talk about Citation Styles. we have five styles.

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   Modern Language Association Style abbreviated as MLA: majorly used for cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities, including English.

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