2010年4月27日星期二
2010年4月14日星期三
The Third Interview
The Third Interview Report
I did some preparation before my interview. First of all, I get to clear my objectives. I’m curious that if the other international students have the same feeling as mine. I want to know about what the other international students' ways of thinking and how their culture does affects them. I also want to know the reasons make them come to the US, how do their lives change and what are their plans for the future. After I make sure what I want to know from the interview, I start to choose the questions, I used some of the questions that we came up with in the class and combined them with my own questions. All my questions are related to my objectives. What was the next to be considered is the technology. I checked my recorder which haven’t been used for a long time and tried to find a quiet place for my interview. At last, I chose the coffee shop in the library.
After the preparations, I need to think about which students I would like to interview. Since I work as a night security in the residential hall, I can meet with a lot of international students from different countries and even some of my co-workers are international students. I know that one of my co-workers is from Sri Lanka and I’ve heard about the country when I was in high school. I have interests in this country and I want to know more about it so I decide to have my co-worker as my first interviewee. I told him that I was doing a interview for my English class to know more about the international students in our school and I chose Sri Lanka. After the first interview, he introduced another friends to me, who is a girl named Shanika. He helped me to ask Shanika if she can be my interviewee and gave me the ways I can connect with her. We talked through the telephone for several times and i told her my purpose of the interview then we diecide to meet with each other.
Before I went to the meeting, I did some research about Sri Lanka.Shanika and I discussed about the date and location for the interview through the telephone and we finally decided to meet at the coffee shop in the library on April the 10th which was a Saturday at 2 pm. I first introduced myself about where I come from and my major. We also talked about the weather, our classes and our plans for the coming summer break then I plan to start the interview. I told her that I would ask him some questions about his country and I need to record our interview. I asked her if she has problems with the recording and she said okay about it. Before I started to ask my questions, I checked my recorder to make sure it works well. Then, the interview began.
Shanika, an international student from Sri Lanka has a very similar family background as mine. She is the single child in her family and both of her parents are worl in the government. The whole family afford for her shcool. She was just come here the last semester and now is a freshman in our shcool. She feels that everything is new here and it is very different from Sri Lanka. She told me that it is a little difficult for her to get used to the cold wheather here when she first arrived because Sri Lanka is pretty warm and sometimes even hot. Shanika doesn't like the food here and she always cook by herself. She is so hard working and gets high grade in her classes. She said she wants to be outstanding and get more opportunities to gain the experience to maker herself a good resume. She wants to try her best to help her family to have a better life. She is trying to find a part time job on campus to pay for her tuition. I felt that she is like a good friend of mine and we had a very happy conversation at the beautiful afternoon.
I think I gained a good friend from this interview even though at the beginning it was a little embarrased because she is very shy and I'm also not a person good at communicate with strangers. For my three interviewees, they all have different personality and I also learned different things from them. Rajitha's helpful, Yoshan's braveness and Shanika's endeavor, these all gives me a good class of the life. To improve my communication skills is what I need to do the next and I'm so happy to have a new friend.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is an island country. It is in the South Asia and lies in the India Ocean. It is located to the Southeast of the bay of Bengal. It has 65610 square kilometers. Because it's near the equator, it is always summer on the island for the whole year. The average temperature there is 28 degree Celsius. The country is also known as "the pearl on the Indian Ocean", "the kingdom of gem" and "the lion kingdom" in the world.
In the late 6th century B.C., the first Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka. The Buddhism was introduced in at the Mid-third centuray B.C.. During the 200 B.C. to A.D.1000, civilization was developed in the Anuradhapura and during the 1070 to 1200, clivilization was developed in Polonnaruwa. In the 14th Centurey, Indians in the south built their Tamil Kindom but the coastal areas of the island were controlled by the Portuguese in the 16th Centuray and by the Dutch in the 17th Centuray. The island was ceded to the British in 1796 and became a crown colony in 1802. By 1815, it was united under the British rule. As Ceylon, it became independent in 1948 and its names changed to Sri Lanka in 1972. From 1983 to 2009, there was an on and off civil war against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which is short for LTTE. It is a separatist milllitant oganization who fought to an independent state and named Tamil Eelam in the north and wast of the island. Both of the Sri Lanka government and LTTE have been accused of various human rights violations. On may 19, 2009, the president of Sri Lanka officially claimed an end to the insurgency and the defeat of the LTTE.
The population of Sri Lanka is 21,324,791 and the growth rate is 0.904 percent by 2009. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Moors, Indian Tamil and Sri Lanka Tamil are the main ethnic groups of the country. People in Sri Lanka also have so many religions such as Buddhist, Islam, Hindu, Christian and so on. Sinhala is their official and national language. Tamil is also another national language of Sri Lanka. English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about ten percent of the population.
The government type of Sri Lanka is republic and divided into three parts which are executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch. The executive branch is consisting of the chef of state, head of government, the cabinet, elections and election results. The legislative branch has elections and the election results. The Supreme Court is the main institution of the judicial branch.
Colombo is the captain of Sri Lanka and known as the "Oriental crossroads" since the Middle Ages. It is one of the most important business ports in the world and the world’s famous gemstone is flowing from here to the overseas. The average temperature is 28 degree. It has a population of 223.4 million (2001).
In Sri Lanka, it's traditional food was influenced by both the Westerns and Middle Easterns. Western influences customary diet are rice and curry, Kiribath, wattalampam which are made mainly by coconut milk. The Middle Eastern influences are found in the traditional Moor dishes such as, Lamprais, Breudher which is a Dutch Christmas cake and Bolo Fiado which is a Portuguese style layer cake.
Every April 13, Sinhala anad Tamil people celebrate Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Muslims celebrate the Ramadan for every year. Esala Perahera is the grand festival hold on July ot August in Kandy which is in the middle part of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consists of dances and richly decorated elephants. It has already become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. Fire dances, Whip dances and Kandian dances are the main dances in Sri Lanka. During the festival time, elephants are usually adorned with lavish garments and people have the shows of different dances. The festival ends up with the traditional Diva-Kepeema and the elephant is paraded around the city bearing the tooth of Buddha.
The tourism is a very famous industrial in Sri Lanka and more and more people are selecting Sri Lanka as their vacation paradise.
Reference
Sumit G. (2006). South Asia. New York : New York University Press. March 2010.
Introduction to Sri Lanka. Applied Language Solution.com. March 2010.
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/country_guides/sri_lanka_country_introduction.shtml
I did some preparation before my interview. First of all, I get to clear my objectives. I’m curious that if the other international students have the same feeling as mine. I want to know about what the other international students' ways of thinking and how their culture does affects them. I also want to know the reasons make them come to the US, how do their lives change and what are their plans for the future. After I make sure what I want to know from the interview, I start to choose the questions, I used some of the questions that we came up with in the class and combined them with my own questions. All my questions are related to my objectives. What was the next to be considered is the technology. I checked my recorder which haven’t been used for a long time and tried to find a quiet place for my interview. At last, I chose the coffee shop in the library.
After the preparations, I need to think about which students I would like to interview. Since I work as a night security in the residential hall, I can meet with a lot of international students from different countries and even some of my co-workers are international students. I know that one of my co-workers is from Sri Lanka and I’ve heard about the country when I was in high school. I have interests in this country and I want to know more about it so I decide to have my co-worker as my first interviewee. I told him that I was doing a interview for my English class to know more about the international students in our school and I chose Sri Lanka. After the first interview, he introduced another friends to me, who is a girl named Shanika. He helped me to ask Shanika if she can be my interviewee and gave me the ways I can connect with her. We talked through the telephone for several times and i told her my purpose of the interview then we diecide to meet with each other.
Before I went to the meeting, I did some research about Sri Lanka.Shanika and I discussed about the date and location for the interview through the telephone and we finally decided to meet at the coffee shop in the library on April the 10th which was a Saturday at 2 pm. I first introduced myself about where I come from and my major. We also talked about the weather, our classes and our plans for the coming summer break then I plan to start the interview. I told her that I would ask him some questions about his country and I need to record our interview. I asked her if she has problems with the recording and she said okay about it. Before I started to ask my questions, I checked my recorder to make sure it works well. Then, the interview began.
Shanika, an international student from Sri Lanka has a very similar family background as mine. She is the single child in her family and both of her parents are worl in the government. The whole family afford for her shcool. She was just come here the last semester and now is a freshman in our shcool. She feels that everything is new here and it is very different from Sri Lanka. She told me that it is a little difficult for her to get used to the cold wheather here when she first arrived because Sri Lanka is pretty warm and sometimes even hot. Shanika doesn't like the food here and she always cook by herself. She is so hard working and gets high grade in her classes. She said she wants to be outstanding and get more opportunities to gain the experience to maker herself a good resume. She wants to try her best to help her family to have a better life. She is trying to find a part time job on campus to pay for her tuition. I felt that she is like a good friend of mine and we had a very happy conversation at the beautiful afternoon.
I think I gained a good friend from this interview even though at the beginning it was a little embarrased because she is very shy and I'm also not a person good at communicate with strangers. For my three interviewees, they all have different personality and I also learned different things from them. Rajitha's helpful, Yoshan's braveness and Shanika's endeavor, these all gives me a good class of the life. To improve my communication skills is what I need to do the next and I'm so happy to have a new friend.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is an island country. It is in the South Asia and lies in the India Ocean. It is located to the Southeast of the bay of Bengal. It has 65610 square kilometers. Because it's near the equator, it is always summer on the island for the whole year. The average temperature there is 28 degree Celsius. The country is also known as "the pearl on the Indian Ocean", "the kingdom of gem" and "the lion kingdom" in the world.
In the late 6th century B.C., the first Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka. The Buddhism was introduced in at the Mid-third centuray B.C.. During the 200 B.C. to A.D.1000, civilization was developed in the Anuradhapura and during the 1070 to 1200, clivilization was developed in Polonnaruwa. In the 14th Centurey, Indians in the south built their Tamil Kindom but the coastal areas of the island were controlled by the Portuguese in the 16th Centuray and by the Dutch in the 17th Centuray. The island was ceded to the British in 1796 and became a crown colony in 1802. By 1815, it was united under the British rule. As Ceylon, it became independent in 1948 and its names changed to Sri Lanka in 1972. From 1983 to 2009, there was an on and off civil war against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which is short for LTTE. It is a separatist milllitant oganization who fought to an independent state and named Tamil Eelam in the north and wast of the island. Both of the Sri Lanka government and LTTE have been accused of various human rights violations. On may 19, 2009, the president of Sri Lanka officially claimed an end to the insurgency and the defeat of the LTTE.
The population of Sri Lanka is 21,324,791 and the growth rate is 0.904 percent by 2009. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Moors, Indian Tamil and Sri Lanka Tamil are the main ethnic groups of the country. People in Sri Lanka also have so many religions such as Buddhist, Islam, Hindu, Christian and so on. Sinhala is their official and national language. Tamil is also another national language of Sri Lanka. English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about ten percent of the population.
The government type of Sri Lanka is republic and divided into three parts which are executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch. The executive branch is consisting of the chef of state, head of government, the cabinet, elections and election results. The legislative branch has elections and the election results. The Supreme Court is the main institution of the judicial branch.
Colombo is the captain of Sri Lanka and known as the "Oriental crossroads" since the Middle Ages. It is one of the most important business ports in the world and the world’s famous gemstone is flowing from here to the overseas. The average temperature is 28 degree. It has a population of 223.4 million (2001).
In Sri Lanka, it's traditional food was influenced by both the Westerns and Middle Easterns. Western influences customary diet are rice and curry, Kiribath, wattalampam which are made mainly by coconut milk. The Middle Eastern influences are found in the traditional Moor dishes such as, Lamprais, Breudher which is a Dutch Christmas cake and Bolo Fiado which is a Portuguese style layer cake.
Every April 13, Sinhala anad Tamil people celebrate Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Muslims celebrate the Ramadan for every year. Esala Perahera is the grand festival hold on July ot August in Kandy which is in the middle part of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consists of dances and richly decorated elephants. It has already become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. Fire dances, Whip dances and Kandian dances are the main dances in Sri Lanka. During the festival time, elephants are usually adorned with lavish garments and people have the shows of different dances. The festival ends up with the traditional Diva-Kepeema and the elephant is paraded around the city bearing the tooth of Buddha.
The tourism is a very famous industrial in Sri Lanka and more and more people are selecting Sri Lanka as their vacation paradise.
Reference
Sumit G. (2006). South Asia. New York : New York University Press. March 2010.
Introduction to Sri Lanka. Applied Language Solution.com. March 2010.
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/country_guides/sri_lanka_country_introduction.shtml
2010年4月7日星期三
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