Interview Reflection

For our interview Allan and I called a woman named Nisha who works at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She lived in Zimbabwe as a child which made her a good interviewee for us. She told us that she moved there at about 2 and stayed there until she went to study in England at 18. Her family had enough money to have food on the table all the time but she said it wasn't the same for most people there. She said that she did not like living there and would probably not go back, but then she also told about some of the less seen beauty of Zimbabwe. It was nice to see some of the good things instead of simply bad things. We asked her if she thought more wealthy countries were doing what they could to help, or just enough to not get criticized by the rest of the world. She said that she did not think they were doing much at all and that they were not getting criticized because no one else was either. Then she told us of how she wanted to help because she was from there, but did not know how. She said that she felt almost helpless because she could not really change anything. To try and get a better feel for what they did I asked about where they went as kids. In America you typically hear that as kids’ people liked going to the park or an ice cream shop, but she said that people just went over to each other's houses and swam in pools. Some of the questions got her talking for a bit but she said she was trying to keep it simple, or else she'd go forever. She told us that if we needed anymore information we could just call her and she gave us her mobile number, which will hopefully help us. It was nice to get an inside view of Zimbabwe and get a feel for what it is really like, but I would like to have gotten more information.