Review of Interview One

1. Who scored the highest?
Fan, Yu
Sainju,jasmin

2. Whose interview did I like best? Why?
The beast interver was Sainju,jasmin. good organize and a lot of information.

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My first interview                                         

Sajjad= S 

Grium= G 

S: Hi, my name is Sajjad  I have interview  for my class and I ask you some questions 

G: My name is Girum you can ask me the questions. 

S: ok, good let's start 

G: Ok. 

S:Can you tell me about yourself and family? 

G: My name is Grium I came from Africa Especially south Africa, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.I live with my family and  I have three brothers and three sisters. 

S: 1- How do you communicate with each other in your home country? 

G:There are in our country there are different kind of languages more than 80 types it’s different between cities. So the major is communicate by hring language that’s our communicate language. 

S:  2- What is the clothing style for men and women? 

G: There are tow  types of clothing style the modern  and traditional  for the girls they have traditional cloths called the (habash kmis) and the boys (haker labs) its also wear like modern cloths the Ethiopia they have 14 states and the people live outside the Addis Ababa wear jeans and t-shirt  

S: 3-How has your experience here helped you interpret and respect cultural differences? 

G: In Ethiopia they have different culture and different people so I think  help me to communicate the people here is not hared to communicate and already have experience who live in village  and one village more than 3 or 5 different culture and different people live together so I have experience in back home. 

S: 4-Do you enjoy speaking with other exchange students? 

G: yes, I have little of exchange students here like international students they come from Sudanese, Somali, Saudi Arabia, German, Italy so I have friends more than one. 

S: 5-How long have you been in the United States? 

G: I have been here 2 years I came with my parents and my parents live here so because that I came here. 

S: 6-Have you been able to visit any other parts of the United States? 

G: I went California last Summer one of my family like my mom sister  live in California I just visited for 3 months it's good I like it and my family live already in moorland. 

S: 7-What are your home country’s major religions? 

G: There are different religions I already told you there are different people, different culture and types. The major religions Christianity, Muslim, Catholic and others religions. 

S: 8-What influenced you to come to the United States? Especially, Saint Cloud State? 

G: When came to United States first my father came here because of that I came here and I want to study in Saint cloud state. One of my friend study at st.cloud state university and he told my St.cloud nice school to learn and I apply online, they accept my and I start to study in St.Cloud State University. 

S: 9-What other effect of the experience have been challenge?  

G: The most challenge is language because it's different my language and I practice many times to speak very well. 

S: 10-Do you have any questions for me? I have asked so many of you!  

G: I don't have any questions it's good.  

 Thank you bro  

you are welcome 

Country Report 

      Ethiopia is in east-central Africa, bordered on the west by the Sudan, the east by Somalia and Djibouti, the south by Kenya, and the northeast by Eritrea. It has several high mountains, the highest of which is Ras Dashan at 15,158 ft (4,620 m). The Blue Nile, or Abbai, rises in the northwest and flows in a great semicircle before entering the Sudan. Its chief reservoir, Lake Tana, lies in the northwest. 

Government 

Federal republic. 

      Archeologists have found the oldest known human ancestors in Ethiopia, including Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba (c. 5.8–5.2 million years old) and Australopithecus anamensis (c. 4.2 million years old). Originally called Abyssinia, Ethiopia is sub-Saharan Africa's oldest state, and its Solomonic dynasty claims descent from King Menelik I, traditionally believed to have been the son of the queen of Sheba and King Solomon. The current nation is a consolidation of smaller kingdoms that owed feudal allegiance to the Ethiopian emperor. 

Hamitic peoples migrated to Ethiopia from Asia Minor in prehistoric times. Semitic traders from Arabia penetrated the region in the 7th century B.C. Its Red Sea ports were important to the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Coptic Christianity was brought to the region in A.D. 341, and a variant of it became Ethiopia's state religion. Ancient Ethiopia reached its peak in the 5th century, then was isolated by the rise of Islam and weakened by feudal wars. 

Modern Ethiopia emerged under Emperor Menelik II, who established its independence by routing an Italian invasion in 1896. He expanded Ethiopia by conquest. Disorders that followed Menelik's death brought his daughter to the throne in 1917, with his cousin, Tafari Makonnen, as regent and heir apparent. When the empress died in 1930, Tafari was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I. 

Haile Selassie, called the “Lion of Judah,” outlawed slavery and tried to centralize his scattered realm, in which 70 languages were spoken. In 1931, he created a constitution, revised in 1955, that called for a parliament with an appointed senate, an elected chamber of deputies, and a system of courts. But basic power remained with the emperor. 

Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia on Oct. 3, 1935, forcing Haile Selassie into exile in May 1936. Ethiopia was annexed to Eritrea, then an Italian colony, and to Italian Somaliland, forming Italian East Africa. In 1941, British troops routed the Italians, and Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa. In 1952, Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia. 

  Preparations for interview 

        My first interview I was nervous and hard  but he knows all questions,  I asked him if I can record, he side sure no problem. I like it because I know new information about Africa and culture. It was my first time to do the interview and  didn't have experience before. I practice the questions at home. I think the next interview it will be easier than the first interview. 

How did you conduct the interview? 

    I meet with my friend and classmate in the library on Monday October 21 at 8pm and we go to Centennial Hall and we  did interview in the in third floor. That was challenge and experience for me because I will meet another International students. Before the interview I saw Grium friends they nice guys and we enjoy. 

How did you approach people? 

        I know some International students and I choose 3 students and make  appointment with them. I'm so happy because done for one and I have experience for next interview. 

Describe the interview? 

     I think I did good and I know a lot of information about Grium and Africa. Grium helped me to did good interview and he learn me easy way to interview with people. He is like the questions and he comfortable to answer it.
Work Cited
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html