My Interview With My Nana

For this project, I took the time to interview my Nana. I chose her because she is my role model. My Nana is like my best friend. She is always here for me which means I can count on her for anything. It is a privilege to be able to sit and talk with her. I asked her ten questions and the interview lasted about eight minutes. What questions were I most excited to ask? I was eager to ask questions about her husband and life advice. Over the years I have heard little stories here and there about her husband, Freeman. I enjoyed seeing her eyes light up along with a smile on her face when I mentioned his name. They had been together fifty-three years. She tells me there was a lot of giving and taking for the person you love. It was not perfect …show more content…
Of course it is usually hard to talk about someone that has passed. My Nana is the type of person that does not show much emotion. I do not feel that it is hard for her to talk about things of that nature. She is a strong woman in my eyes which means I feel she could handle any question I asked. How did I feel going into the interview? Was I nervous? Was my subject? Going into the interview, I was excited to hear what my Nana had to say. We did some talking and reviewing on some of the questions that I might ask. So, I got to find out more than what was just in the interview. We laughed and reminisced on the past. I felt somewhat nervous but it is just my Nana so I felt better as the interview went on. I felt that she was nervous too. I told her to just talk like we talk all the time. She says she hates being recorded but I think she secretly likes it. As soon as I stopped recording, she wanted to hear …show more content…
I did not have much of a change in feelings during this interview. My Nana and I have a very close relationship with an unbreakable bond. So, there is not much that I did not already know about her. The feelings I did get from it was happiness, and gratefulness. I am grateful which makes me happy because no matter how hard life gets I am reminded that this is right where I need to be. My Nana tells me she has no regrets and I believe that you should not. Everything happens for a reason and makes a person who they are today. Also I felt a little sad when talking about Papa but she reminds me that he lived a good and successful life and he would want us to go on and be happy. There is no reason to be sad because we still have the memories and we believe that we will all be together again one day. If I had to do the interview again would I? What would I do differently? What worked well? To answer the first question, yes I would do the interview again. If I did it differently, I would probably ask different questions and talk a little more. The sample questions and categories helped it work