who scored highest?

1. Valerie, Mattson
2. Sainju, Jasmin
3. Rabaan, Sajjad H

  These students are it was very organized and contained detailed information so I  gave high score .
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmBIah83xuU6dF9fc2dWWlpFU0podXFZSVN4UG02aUE#gid=0

My First Interview

Objective

     I would like to interview three international students l considered  educational, social and cultural and Political perspective . l interview students based on past experience because I want to learn different culture and personal experience, I focused on personal interviews to get a comparative e and personal experience this things helps to me know other cultural and life style in different perspective    

   How did I approach people?         

        I peppered to interviewing an international student who came from Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia so I don’t have much information about this country but I heard about some of the traditional cloths ,foods and cultures. I need to know how life in Mogadishu. I will be interviewing my Friend  fuad because we took English class together last year. beacuse of this We know each other well ,so I figure it out will be easy to get information out of him for the first interview.

3- Whom did I interview?

  I interview with my friend fuad. He came from East Africa Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia he is international student for two years in Saint Cloud state university.

Interview report:    The interview was easy because we are very close each other. We do not need any icebreaker because I already knew most things about him and he know me also. We have shared our personal and cultural information in many times. However, the only thing that I need to be careful was that it was this interview is a class project, not a personal conversation so I want to do my project appropriately.

What surprised me?

      There are three things are the most interesting to me the I was surprised about their culture and religions in Mogadishu . first one is all the populations of Mogadishu are practicing Islamic religion. The second one men can marriage more than one girl if he cloud afford the ceremony of the wedding other thing women’s in Mogadishu she always have to be dress up the all  part of the body those things are  surprised me.  
3. Country Report

      Mogadishu was located in east Africa Mogadishu without a formal parliament for more than two decades after the overthrow of President SiadBarre in 1991.Years of anarchy followed the downfall of President Barre, and it was not until 2012, when a new internationally-backed government was installed, that the country began to enjoy a measure of stability once more. The decades of fighting between rival warlords meant that the country was ill-equipped to deal with natural disasters such as drought, and around half a million people died in the Somali famines of 1992 and 2010-12. Mogadishu governor has less mean to the people. Mogadishu Living in Mogadishu is very simple. You do not have to work every day if you have something to eat and they food there is very cheap. People in Mogadishu can build their own house on any empty land and they do not have to pay for that land, because it’s their homeland and governor has no control. The land is controlled by the people of Mogadishu.

 

 

Works cited:

 

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html

 

http://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ACLED-Country-Report_Somalia_April-2013.pdf

 

 

 

4) Interview Transcription

 

 FUAD: F

 

GIRUM: G (ME)

 

G: Hi, fuad . How are you?

 

F:Good. How are you?

 

G: I’m good. Are you ready for the interview?

F: Sure

 

G: I need to record our interview, is it ok for you?

F: No problem.

 

G: okay thank you for taking your time to ansewer this questions .

F: No problem.

 

G: I will ask you ten core questions in the class and five question that I made. So totally fifteen questions, and this is the question list. You can check the list.

F:okay

 

G:Let’s start the interview.

 

G: are you ging to saint  cloud state universty ?

 

F:  I’m sophomore student in saint cloud state university.

 
 

G: do you belong to any campus organization or community organizations ?

 

F: yes, I attend  African Student Association(ASA)

 

G: did you bring somting with you to the states to remind you of home ?

 

F:Yes, I have a lot of traditional clothe in my home.

 

G: what is your favirite class this semester and why?

 

F:My favorite class is this semester is math because when I was back home I have potential to solve math problems, so I like math better than other subject .

G: what is your native language ? Do you speak other languages ?

 

F: The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic but i can't speak other languages .

 

 Core Questions

 

 

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

 

F: I have been in the United States for approximately two and a half months now. 

 

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

F:  In my home country, we have different languages in our country we have one official language is Somalia but some people spoken Arabic language majority of the peoples they don’t have opportunity to learn other language because of internal war. 

G: what is the clothing style for man and women

 

F: The women in my country mostly wear the traditional cloth od Muslim poeple wear such as Hijjab and dira. And some of the men’s wear modern cloth and the old people wear traditional cloth khamis.

 

G: How has your experience here helped you interpret and respect culteral differences ?

F: the mine thing in our culture all people respect other people .  
 

G:  How are women and men treated differently?

F: the women treated very respectful way of manners. they do not have to work at all. the man its his responsibilty to take care all needs of his wife. if they like to work they are free to work. According to Islamic laws, Its better for woman to stay her home.  the man also has right over the women. when i say over women i meant . those women who are very close relitive such as his wife and his sister and his aunt. 

G: Do you enjoy speaking with other exchange students?
 

F: yes

  yes, i have a many friends who are exchange students.

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

F:  yes. I have visited many place in the United States. I visited califotnia and Iowa and Northe Dhakota, over all it was good experiment for me.

 

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

In my country we only have one Religion and that is Islam.

F: Major religion is Islamic there is no other religion in Somalia.

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

F: one of my friend he used to go to saint cloud state university because of this I come here

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

F: no ,

 

            

       I would like to interview three international students l considers the educational, social and cultural l interview students based on past experience because I want to learn different culture and personal experience, I focused on personal interviews to get a comparative e and personal experience this things helps to me know other cultural and life style in different perspective.

·How did you choose to come to the U.S.?

·What do you miss the most about your home country?

·How long have you been in the U.S.?

·Where you from? Tell me about yourself

·How do you spend your free time?

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

·Describe a major goal you've set for yourself recently.

·What is the impact of international students on teaching and learning?

·Has your experience here helped you gain an ability to communicate effectively within and among diverse cultural groups? If so, can you cite specific examples?

·What are the biggest differences you see between the university experience here and in your home country?

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

Challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student

girum negussie ,shukri aden,sajjad Rabaan, and faisal Alsultan


Challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student

interviewing an international student mean the interviewer has to consider who would be the interviewee and then might face a hard time to find the ways approaching a person due to differences in lifestyles. However, those challenges are a great way to achieve knowledge about different cultures.

 
language barrier is the most challenge in interviewing with an international student. Understanding the interviewee is very important. Also, knowing that the interviewee understand the questions that he was asked is the key to make them answer and talk.Some information may be difficult to understand and boring but we must have to handle any kind of situation.

When we talks about the benefits of interviewing an international students All over the world the coming in the united states, you have a little opportunity to go there known everything, but to interview an international student is a good chance to get detail information about other countries.  During the interviewing, people can learn and know a lot of cultures about the country; also people can compare the difference and similarity cultures between their own countries. On other hand, people usually will use the English for interviewing, so that is helpful to our English skills. Interviewing bring us benefits of discovering other cultures as well as life styles and on the other hand reflect our own culture by looking at peoples ways of thinking   

 In conclusion, interviewing an international student make people face some challenges finding and approaching interviewees at first but obviously, the interviewing process would bring many benefits since interviewers will be able to achieve knowledge about another cultures as well as their own culture.

Summary of page 15 on the many voices one god book

      

              I summarized this topic based on online and book resources this topic describes about theological gain in the history of Israelite religion. According to many voices one god book page 15 tells about the emergence of a critical consensus in Old Testament study in the nineteenth century, it has been agreed that the prophecy of Amos. Amos provides the first clear, uncontested evidence that Israel had arrived at ethical monotheism. Israel’s are normative faith liberal and development is come to in the world .Amos as the clear emergence of what are right and good noble, which would eventuate in Christianity. “Amos 9:7” describe about more history of Israel.Pluralism presents both promises and challenges for Christian theology in the future. Here biblical scholars, religious ethicists, and theologians reflect on the meaning and abiding relevance of the Christian revelation for communities of faith and the life .

Resources

1.      Bible Hub. (n.d.). Retrieved 1 2013, 10, from Bible Hub: http://biblehub.com/sermons/amos/9-7.htm  

2    walter,brueggemann and george w.stoup. (1998). Many voices,One GOD . In b. a. walter, Many voice one GOD (p. 15). louisvill,kentucky: westmister john knox

 

3  Rosemary radford .(1974).Faith and fratricide .New York  seabury Press,inc.