Hi my name is kaleena...

Before class today Heather and I were sitting in Dairy queen discussing what we thought would be happening in our class with Shawn beginning at 12:30. Heather was picking disgusting warm lettuce out of her 1.79 chicken wrap well I enjoyed a pumpkin pie blizzard, which by the way only come out in October and are highly recommended by me, but this is beside the point. We decided that in class Shawn would likely make us interview someone else in class and have to report back on what we found... Something similar to those first awkward days in high-school when you found yourself forced to introduce the person next to you in the class by what you had learned in your 5 minute interview session with them previously. Though in this case we expected it to be something more enlightening than, “Hi this is… what was your name again? Ka…Kleenex, no that’s not right.” It happened okay, not my proudest moment and definitely a tangent but this was what I was expecting to be presented with in class today.
So upon our arrival to class and Shawn presenting us with the assignment of the day I was not really surprised. I paired up with Jenny because she was sitting beside me and I honestly haven’t spent very much time getting to know her, aside from the occasional chat over beer’s at “the fox and hounds,” but nothing of a substantial matter.
As we were given the assignment I was pleased to see that Shawn had provided us with a set of questions to ask the other person, I’m terrible at preparing questions for interviews by the way and feel that I will fail as a journalist because I “ummm” and “Ahhhh” so much I expect my interviewee to run away from me in a fit of boredom. Which I suppose I could come to the conclusion that I have abandonment issues, which would make my answer in my interview that I have a fear of “being alone” quite true.
O snap I have gone off on yet another tangent... back to the exercise.
So I suppose that from this exercise I have come to the realization that I need to prepare better questions before getting to my interviews, although my ability to make them up as I go was somewhat effective in interviewing Jenny today.
I have also come to the conclusion that when all else fails and you find yourself unable to come up with another question the best way to get information out of someone is to simply ask “why.” Have you ever found yourself faced with a four-year-old asking you this same question over and over, you can’t help but answer them, no matter how many times they repeat it you want to do your best in answering the question, even if you don’t know the answer. Now of course we can’t ask it to much as our interviewee may get fed up with you, like many parents due with their children when they are sick of answering their questions.
Which reminds me of an episode of family guy, totally off topic but definitely shows the power of asking too many annoying questions. “Dad why did the dinosaurs go extinct,” Chris asked to which peter replied “because you touch yourself at night.” This tangent has a point… KNOW WHEN TO STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT ASK.
So time is seemingly over and my last realization of the day is that I forget to introduce myself when doing an interview, doesn’t matter who I am interviewing, I begin with, “ Hi I’m a reporter from the Omega, can I ask you some questions?” And ultimately need to change that up to include my name because I am sick of forgetting and at the end of my interviews throwing in…
“ By the way my name is Kaleena, thank-you for your time.”