This was a certain Thursday when I was in class interviewing one of my classmates called Sylvan. We were seated facing each other on our blue plastic chairs. We were not alone that day in class but we were with other class mates, our class supervisor and also our teacher, Madam Laura, who was on zoom call. Back to me and Sylvan. I interviewed Sylvan about his objectives in studying anthropology. I asked him this question at first. “Please can you tell me why you do love studying anthropology?” he replied: “I really love studying anthropology because studying other people’s cultures is really fun and interesting.” Then I asked him “What are your objectives while studying anthropology?” he replied: “my objectives while studying anthropology is to gain the ability of observation and studying about different cultures around the world” What I appreciated from him was the way he was truly motivated in studying anthropology.
Personal Narrative
Ethnographic Interview, by LaJoie
I’ve been waiting for so long to get the teachers permission to conduct an interview about him. Today at lunch time he had given me his lunch break as the time that we can do it. I told him, thank you once again teacher for the opportunity. As I told you I’m a student of Anthropology and this interview is one of my assignments. Can you please tell me anything about teaching? Hi said, “Yeah, I am a teacher and it’s not that I do teaching as a career but I do it as my vocation to this world. I started teaching at the age of fifteen when I was chosen as the assistant teacher and a guild president at our school, which gave me the opportunity to enjoy sharing and standing in front of others when teaching.” “In fact” he continued, “teaching is not about money but it is about the vocation; you must be called for it or else you will create monsters.” I asked him, “sorry what do you mean by monsters?” He replied, “I mean when a teacher pushes you into ignorance you can never release yourself because among the most trusted people in the world teachers are the first; because whatever they say is true. Wow. So what are the challenges you do face when teaching, I asked. He said, “stubborn students in general.” Finally, I said, “so besides teaching or let’s say when you retire, what will you be doing? In my retirements I will be a teaching consultant and I will be writing as many books as I can to update this modern curriculum. I concluded, “thank you sir for this time.”
Ethnographic Interview, by Joshua
I am doing an interview with Theobarh, my teacher. I gave him a surprise visit to his office where we sat though the noise from the hair dressing students shouting. 1, So Mr. Theobarh why do you call yourself that name and what does it mean A, My names are ISHARA THEOPHILE BARHAME and I’m called THEOBARH for two reasons. Firstly because it combines my names (THEOPHILE=THEO & BARHAME=BARH) and secondly because it’s my uncles name and we have many things in common. 2, So apart from teaching, what else can you do? B, Come-on, I have a lot of skills in me but mostly I prefer teaching because it helps me feel alive again. I am a good cook; I am writer, a poet, a comedian, a motivational speaker, a health scout, a designer, a web designer, graphic designer and a good business person. I know many things but I do prefer to teach them because on top of everything, teaching is my passion. 3, So can you share with me how you’ve reached here? For today we won’t have time but the only thing I can say is that it wasn’t easy but we kept on doing it. I came here in Nakivale when I was 14 and I have worked every underestimated job here in Nakivale. Above all I kept learning and increasing on my knowledge and shaped myself for where I am and I’m still going.
