Raphael Beekmeyer Interview

I had the pleasure of interviewing Raphael Beekmeyer, an avid video gamer, youtuber, artist and full time student. This interview that I have had with Raphael gave me a very interesting insight into his life, allowing me to learn a lot about him. This written interview will be divided into three different sections the first being basic information about Raphael, the second being about Raph’s achievements and academic life and the last being more personal information and a self reflection. Raphael interest are very diverse ranging from his life a youtuber to him creating artwork in his free time. He, along with some of his friends run a YouTube channel called BonDemic, making gaming videos based on all of their unique personalities. Raph …show more content…
Raph’s interest in creative writing is also growing, with him setting bi-weekly deadlines for himself to write chapters of his book. In the future, though Raph would like to go into graphic design, taking courses like art and intro to computers now to help him in the future and building a foundation. Raph is also an extremely very visual learner, and learns best when he has instructions in front of him either with diagrams or with text, working best independently, but if he is in a group he can work as long he has one or two other competent partners. Taking this in into consideration, he chose arts as his favorite subject in school and math as the his least favorite. His approximate mark in English last year was 85%. This year he wants to be able to learn about creative writing, thinking it is fascinating and he wants to decide if he should pursue it or not. Raph finds that he is often motivated and concentrated when writing creatively, but he is not sure if he is good at it. In English class Raph enjoys doing essays and poetry having both sides of the spectrum in essays and poetry, but he despises presentations, especially when they’re memorize