Interview preparations :
I approached Brandon after class and we decided to interview each other since he's interviewing saudi's and Im interviewing americans , we met at the library , and i have learned a lot of new things about the american culture. The interview went on a really good way Brandon was really helpful and he answered all of my questions .
Country report :
During the reign of Bill Clinton as president of USA, when he was re-elected as the president, there was reduced enthusiasm in the voter turnout. Bill Clinton got 49% of the casted votes during that election because majority of people were dissatisfied with his candidacy (Segura and Bowler 23). The citizens had not apparently seen much development from his previous governance. This made the citizens have very little faith in him, especially when he promised of a new dawn during his inauguration. The inauguration came at a time that there was also the celebration of Martin Luther King birthday (Segura and Bowler 24). Clinton and Luther king had different social philosophies; and mentioning of Luther king in his speech was ironical.
Clinton government was advocating for equal justice as were stipulated by Luther King many years ago; but this was not free of violence. Clinton seemed to be biased in his administration by having less consideration to the matters that touched on the blacks, and concentrated on those associated with the whites (Zinn 31). Several black people in positions of power were fired because they fought for racial equality in the government. Any black official in the government who criticised the government about its biasness was asked to resign.
The president was not willing to counter strong liberals who did not agree with the implementation of corporal punishment to criminals. To achieve his agenda the president ensured he campaigned against Ruth and Steve to assume some positions in Supreme Court, because they were against his biased leadership (Zinn 35). Many judges of the Supreme Court were dropped by the president, if there was hint of some kind of controversy to his agendas. During his reign the citizens and especially those from the opposition party were actually treated with contempt.
Interview : A= Abdulaziz , B= Brandon
Interview 2
A: Hello my name is abdulaziz and i would like to ask you some questions for my english class, its going to be recorded , and its going to take 20 to 30 minutes of your time ?
B: Yeah sure no problem !
A : alright so lets start with the weather here in St.cloud do you like it ?
B: for me i have always lived in Minnesota , and i've traveled a lot of different places , but i've always kind of ives here so i have learned to tolerate this harsh winter . The only thing that i don't like about the weather is the winter , I don't mind it but as long as we have snow because . During the summer time I really like the weather here , sometimes people in Minnesota we think that its really humid here , and i've traveled to other places that it gets hotter and you think its like dry heat , no we have a really nice summer here , which I like !.
A: Yeah as an international i can say that summer here is really great .
B: Yeah winter time is rough but its livable .
A: so you are originally here from Minnesota ?
B: yes i'm originally from here , from Sauk Rapids .
A: How old are you ?
B: I'm 20 I'm going to turn 21 here with 17 days
A: ok so can i ask you about your family ?
B: yeah sure go ahead .
A: ok , can you tell me about your family ?
B: My parents are separated when i was younger , but i still talk to them very regularly , because they both live around this area . I don't have any brothers and sisters , it was just complications with pregnancy that my mom couldn't afterword , so i've kind of grown up as the only child , its kind off bad but i have a lot of cousins , a lot of my immediate family , and distance family live around this area . I didn't have a lot of brothers and sisters , but i had a lot of cousins that they can be more like a brother for me .
A: speaking about your family how often do you communicate with them ?
B: I would say on a weekly basis for sure , I talk with my mother every couples of days , she always wants to know what are you doing , I talk to my dad every
now and again , we both work at the same place so i usually see him when i go to work and then help him out if he wants something for sure .
A: what is the biggest holidays in your country , and do you celebrate them with your family ?
B: There is quite a few holidays that we celebrate here in america . the biggest one would be christmas specially for my family the biggest one that we celebrate thanks giving , christmas , and easter were we usually pick a family member's house each year and then the whole family get there and have a big meal together. those are probably the three big ones , and we have other little ones like fourth of july but those aren't typically family oriented , you can just hang out with your friends you need to do something for it , but for family lets say that those are the only three .
A: So the bigger events are with family and the smaller events are with friends ?
B: yeah i can say that , like saying new year its like friends , yeah the big holidays with family and then the little ones with friends ,
A: Whats your major ?
B: I'm a nursing major so I'm going to school to become an RN , I'm technically a junior right now i went to St.johns my first year and i was going for another major , so when i transfer here my credits didn't really work for my major so i kind off had to start over , last year was my first year at st. cloud and this my second year , and then after this year i have two more years left of nursing school and then i'll be done .
A: Speaking about your major why did you choose this major ?
B: I first was going for pharmacy and then i realized that i didn't liked chemistry as much as i did in high school , so i wanted to pick something different , and i really wanted to stay at the medical field I'm better in sciences and i'm bad at math so i didn't want , like in engineering like you i wanted to go with it but there as a lot of math and i'm not that good in math . I wanted to choose something with sciences so i definitely wanted to pick a job that i can get a job in , like RN and being a male i definitely can , because i didn't want to graduate college and don't know where to go or if i'm even going to get a job in my major . Basically thats the main reason behind chose it because it pays very well , when i go out of school , and then job placements really good .
A: Are you planning to have a job here or in another state
B: I haven't decided yet if i want to stay here , I mean I would like to because of my family , a lot of my family are around this area specifically just in Minnesota for sure . I haven't decided if i want to go to other state or not , its really difficult to because with nursing , being a male , RN i have a lot of job opportunities just like every hospital wants you .
A: Yeah thats why I asked , like if you found a better job and a better salary in another state would you go for it ?
B: I probably would because like i said i have traveled a lot and i can be used to be away from my family , my family are really close but i can go to other state or something i'm kind off just shut everything out , and yeah probably another town or even another state . hospital offers me a job that paid better , maybe i like the schooling system for when i get a family, and yeah whats benefit me and my family the most i'll probably move .
A: What do you do for leisure ?
B: If i ever have time between studying and work , I usually hang out with my roommates or some other friends from the area from St.cloud or just friends from my hometown that I hang out with . Couple of my friends would go hunting or something , during the summer i work a lot so if any day i was off I'm usually doing something . A lot of time during the summer we go to the beach , go swimming something like that .
A: So I have asked you a lot of questions do you have any questions that you would like to ask me ?
B: I have always being curious because I'm from Minnesota in Saudi Arabia is hunting exist ?
A: Yeah for sure
B : Have you ever been to ?
A: Well i have never been to , but they have their own places for sure , and you can have more than one kind of animals for example , deers , rabbits , etc ..
B: I have always been curious because my family is big on do it , and a lot of other cultures like when i went to England , there is not much land do to hunt so the law is really strict on hunting , and hunting is really big here in Minnesota
A: yeah I can see that a lot of people here are so into hunting .
B: I have on more question that i would like to ask you one more question .
A: yeah sure go ahead
B: Just because you are in Minnesota and you can't do this in many other states have you ever been to ice fishing ?
A: Ice fishing , sounds fun but i have never been to .
B: I'm always curious because i always have friend from down south who come here to visit us on winter , its just the time to go there . A lot of time they get scared to step because they think its water because in their hometown its not safe to step on it , but here its get really cold and the ice is like a foot thick you can drive your car there .
A: Sounds fun , I must do it next semester .
B: I was wondering have you ever done anything like in the winter time ?
A: Well i have been with the IEC program students and teacher for skiing but i was really bad on it .
B: Did you get at the end of the day ?
A: Actually no i was really bad on it i couldn't even reach the bunny hill. a hockey game
B: yeah its really hard i was bad on it too , have you ever been to a hockey game ?
A: Actually no but i heard that its really fun there .
B: I went to couple of one here , yeah its really fun there , and guess thats it i have asked you my questions .
A: Alright thank you very much .
B: Yup no problem .
