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.”
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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.
Ethnographic Interview, by Sylvan
I decided today to challenge myself and interview a pastor. Good morning pastor, I’m conducting an interview on faith and ethics of Christianity. Can you share with me some details? Yeah, firstly you can’t understand all of Christianity because its large, and every sub religion interprets it the way they want and not as Islam or other religions. We have over one hundred sub religions in Christianity where they are deferred by the thing which is called Doctrine. For example, Seventh Day Adventists believe that its Saturday the seventh day of the week and it’s the Sabbath day, while others worship on Sunday, just as Catholics believes in the holy trinity, while Jehovah’s witnesses don’t. Christianity is large, but the thing which unites all of us or I can call it a common doctrine is that we were saved by Jesus Christ. So pastor, why many religions and churches when God is one? God is one but people are many. Just like the period of Jesus thee were Pharisees, disciple of John the Baptist and others. It depends with the how they received, who brought and how it was interpreted but the true Christian is someone who believes in Jesus as lord and savior.
