Community Interview Essay

In the last Blog Post, I formulated a few questions and conducted an interview with a classmate about her K-Pop community and her connections with people in this community. During the interview, I learned skills in forming question for interview and write an organized interview.

First, I learned that as an interviewer, I must ask questions specifically and guide the interviewee to give more information. For example, I wrote a question “Who are in this community” I asked this question because I want to know more about the members in her community. She responded with only few words saying that all of them are Korean international students. However, I wanted to know more about their connection before so I added a follow up question “Did you know anyone of them before?” and then she told me that she knew some of them before but not so close to them.

We talked for a short period of time and then came up with some focus on the communities preparing Korean Culture Night event and performance. Before the interview, we briefly talked about the practice of her community, the practice of her community on general, and some feelings and problems she encountered in this community. After the talk, we came up with the focus of her feelings and problems she encountered. For example, we focused heavily on the dilemma she had when she had practice and tests. Once she had a chemistry test on Thursday and group practice on Wednesday, she had to study for the test so she skipped the practice. However, she still need to catch up with the practice, so she had little sleep that weekend and was