IIP WRITE UP
IIP WRITE UP
On Friday April 18th me and my fellow classmates, interviewed Karolina Tovar from Poland at I.S.A. She originally came to the United States to visit her friends but has overstayed her visit for three years. We asked her questions about religion, health care and women’s issues and thus the following quotes that will be said have to do with her responses to our selected questions.
In the beginning we started asking basic questions, and she told us what she thinks about San Francisco. “People are really nice, that surprised me, especially in San Francisco . They are really supportive and they really want to help you whenever they can, and it’s amazing for someone, a newcomer, to know that you can just ask people on the street for help, you know like you are not alone, it’s a really nice feeling” I think that in some part of San Francisco because not everywhere is a nice place to be in San Francisco. After saying this, she answer some more basic questions and after a while we starting asking the real questions.
We talked for a while about women’s issues, in one of the questions a classmate asked she said “There is also this legacy of communist country I don’t know if you know it but during the communist, everyone was supposed to be equal, men and women” I really don’t know if we had a communist country before all I know is that in the united states men and women are equal. According to me communism is, a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person is paid and works according to his or her needs and abilities and I think that U.S is not a communist country.
We change the subject now we were talking about health care and one thing that I think is really good even tho is changing right now, is what she said after a question asked by one of my fellow classmates. She said “ We were a communist country before, so everything was for free, like education, health care, now the government country want everyone to pay for it” I think that the government is doing something wrong by doing this because it would be better if it was free. Here in the U.S. the government do give free education and free health care but only to some people not to everyone and I think that’s a problem.
Through this project I met a lady from a country that I knew nothing about Poland. Being involved in an interview isn’t new to me. I think that the interview was more than okay. I think that me and my classmates tried to do the best to get a good interview.
One thing that she said that sticks to my head was the part when she said she misses the food, because I do too. I think that if I ever see her again I wouldn’t ask her anything because I think I already know what I need to know about Poland.