How To Interview A Paternal Grandmother

I sat down to interview my father, soon to find out how intrigued I was about my dad’s stories. It was late at night, about 7:00 PM. I had asked my dad if I could interview him, and he excitedly accepted.

She said that “she regrets her decision and wishes that she didn’t do anything to harm him but she saw an opportunity and took it. Now after the holocaust she is living in the UK with her 9 cats and 3 dogs. Her husband died of a heart attack while he was sitting in his chair at her house. She also has 4 children and 6 grandchildren.

I interviewed my wife, Jael Dimich. I choose her because she left a high paying job to go back to school to become a nurse. She wanted to become a nurse after traveling for three months in Argentina and realizing there are people that continue to be suppressed by their economic background and social opportunities. That experience inspired in her the desire to help people in her career.

(7) Reported by the man who stole her food, the Nazis arrested her for eight offenses such as “working among Jews”, “weeping when seeing girls wearing yellow stars”, and “listening to news broadcasts”. However, her work was not meaningless. As a result of her hard work to save the children, she changed the lives of many and inspired them to never give

My sixty-year old grandmother, Helaine Bondar, conveniently lives in Baltimore, MD. This made the interview quite convenient, and we were able to sit down face-to-face on her dining room table chairs with a plate of cookies for the interview. "Bubby" as I call her, was born in New York City and lived there her entire youth. She only had one sister, Suzette, who still lives in New York City (my grandmother recalls at this time that my great-grandmother was very fond of French names.) When asked about her grandparents she reminisced on her days with "nanny" and "poppy," her maternal grandparents who practically raised her. She spoke about their personalities. Nanny was the bulldozer go-getter of the family, my grandmother said her favorite phrase was "my way or the highway." Poppy was more calm, and they balanced each other out perfectly. Bubby 's paternal grandparents were Anna and Sol Gross, and despite their close proximity-- they also lived in the Bronx -- Bubby just wasn’t as close with them.

After her husband Rudolf got killed, she lost her job because of the communist party. As long as the communist was running things she was not allowed to have a job. Thrown out of every house she moved to because the party controlled that as well, this goes to show that they truly had control over everything. She studied how the people act under a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. “Loss of Father , loss of Husband , loss of honor , loss of Health , Loss of Employment and opportunity to complete education “ (Kovaly pg.174) all under a party that her and her husband joined, the had to let it be known that the party wasn’t going to do anything that they

Picking someone for this paper was much more difficult than the first one, at immediate thought the only people I knew over the age of 65 were my family members. I started to look into some of my friends’ parents but they were not quite there. Then it hit me, the perfect person to interview would be my friend that passed away in Dickinson, her grandmother. She is one of the most loving, caring, supportive grandparents I have ever met. I have always seen her from that stand point so interviewing her would only help me to understand how she became the way she is today.

The person I chose to interview was my father, Andrew Taketa. Andrew is a father of three girls, including me, and two boys. He is at the age of forty six and his occupation is being the head tree trimmer at the Hualalai Resort.

During my time interview my grandma Moui, she stated her grandfather is named Thongdee Sophabmixay and he married my great great-grandmother Nang Laso. He was the mayor of the Muang Sami Tai of the Huaphanh province Laos. Her grandfather had married to three wives after each one of them dies and had nine children. Thongphet is Thongdee’s son which is my great grandfather and he married to Kang Koui which is my great-grandmother. Thongphet was a judge of Xiang Man City and he had nine children. However, three of the children die and the rest went to live in the country of United States, Australia, and Laos.

My Grandmother goes by the name of babunya, and baba for short, this means grandma in Ukrainian. She lived in Ukraine for most of her life, and she is almost 90 years old now. She’s been through a lot in her years, thus her appearance has changed. For every wrinkle she has there’s a story to match. She has had every color hair: blonde, red, brown, and black. Now her hair is a short gray color. She keeps it short because it stays out of the way, even though she hates it short. She has always had long her until now. She has also progressively become shorter over the years due to a very bad back; she now stands just under five feet. Since she spends most of her days in the garden her usual outfit

The most intriguing interview I’ve ever conducted by far resulted from this college course, Women Studies. The assignment entailed us students to interview a woman who is of grandparent age, at least 58 years old or older. I certainly wasn’t too ecstatic about interviewing a random grandmother considering both my fathers’ and mothers’ parents and great grandparents had passed away. After pondering who I could interview, I thought of the most ingenious idea, why not just interview my girlfriend’s grandmother. It turned out to be a match as her grandmother was eager for something new to do or reflect on.

I interviewed three people, my mother, my father, and my friend, Makaila. My mother is an avid church goer that finds comfort in God and often spreads her joy and love to all that she encounters. My father is a disabled 60 year old that endures diabetes and it often affects his life. Makaila is wild and free spirit that believes in people not being complete idiots by discriminating people.

Interviewing my mother Regina Burns she expresses that “growing up for her was bitter sweet because her oldest siblings who are all stair steps never set good examples for her”. Her whole life she has felt like the black sheep of the family keeping to herself. By her being academically smart at a young age, she was separated from going to school with her other siblings. She said that she wasn’t close to any of her siblings and this dissimilarity followed my mother and her siblings all the way through high school. She had to do all of her older siblings homework on a daily basis. She expressed that growing up and going to school was not anything like how when her mother was in school. She said that it was acceptable for girls to be smart and that they pushed smartness and wanted the young woman to be as bright as they could be. Interviewing my father he said

As mentioned above, I chose Oniqa as my interviewee because of the impact she has had on my life in the time I have

For my interviews, I talked with my fiancé’s grandfather. I will refer to him as Paul. I do not have any real relationship with his grandfather because we have lived pretty far away from them since we have been together. I have only ever talked with him a little at the last two Christmases. My fiancé is very close to his grandfather however, so I had heard a lot about him from stories. The first interview will take place at my fiancé’s parents home, where his grandfather will be visiting with his wife for dinner because we are there for the weekend.