The first and second interview

My second interview was much better than the first one; in the first I interviewed a classmate from china.it was really difficult because I dint know how to proceed or how to approach my interviewer, it’s true that after the first questions it got a lot easier but at the beginning we were not that comfortable. For my second one it took place at the library the place is quite, I did a student from Somali.

The differences were huge; of course china is different from a small country in east Africa, while I have china this huge country from Asia, the world most powerful country after the United States. The culture was different, the religion, politics, governments, way of living, everything was different from the first interview. Somali is a small country in east Africa, Somali has been having a civil war for more than 20 years now, the capital city Mogadishu is a town where most of the things, towns, buildings, schools, and hospitals have been destroyed by the rebels during the civil war. Somali is a collapsed state, the government is based in a Nairobi city, the capital of Kenya another east African country that shares the border with Somali, this same Kenya has been receiving refuges from Somali for about 10 years, so many Somalia’s people live in refugee camps in Kenya. The country is not improving in any way, the situation still the same ever since.

What I liked most about this second interview was the comfort, because my questions were really simple, but my interviewer dint have any problem sharing personal issues, like it was not a problem for him to tell me about the situation in Somali, the refugee camps where he spent 5 years with his family waiting to come to the united states. The problems he had, his life over here how it is different from Kenya or Somali. Which was really cool for me, I learnt a lot in how to interview people, how to proceed with my questions, when to stop or when to continue. I really had a good experience, first of all this helps me to know more about countries in war as am majoring in international relations, I really appreciate knowing about other cultures, I’m pretty sure this will help me for my future job hopefully which is working with refugees if I work for the United Nations. Overall it has been a good experience for me.