Comparison of the First interview and the Second

By now, I have already done two interviews. Since I did not do such kind of interview, I felt a little nervous for the first interview. Obviously, I felt much better for the second interview. This time, I prepared well and felt relaxed during the conversation. For the second interview, I invited my Japanese friend, Keita, to be my interviewee. We often play basketball together and we are neighbors living in Lawrence Hall, so I did not feel nervous at all. The interview went through smoothly. 

This time, I almost did the same as the first interview. I just changed the place. Since, we both live in Lawrence Hall, we had our interview in the lounge.

The two interviewees are from different countries. Janvier is from Rwanda and Keita is from Japan.
Keita’s English is not as good as Janvier. Sometimes, I need to guess what he meant. By some body language, I could almost understand him.

I used the same questions and the same recorder.

I learned a lot from the first interview. Africa is kind of mysterious to me. I knew little about Africa before. Thanks to Janvier, I knew something about the education, food, daily life, military and so on. Since Chinese and Japan are close to each other and the two countries have many similarities, I had known something about Japan before. What Keita said still increased my knowledge.

I spent about 1 hour to transcribe the recorded audio portion and I spent much time to complete the whole interview report, so I am satisfied with my second interview. Some classmates also did perfectly.
I will prepare well to complete the third interview better.