A few weeks ago, a friend on one of youth at church contacted me. She had a school project where she needed to interview an adult who travels a bit. Now I'm not going to argue whether I deserve adult status or not, but no one would disagree that I do like to travel.
Here is her write up from the interview:
I met Paul (interviewee) through my friend. He was her youth leader for church. She recommended me to interview him since Paul and I shared the same passion. My plan in the beginning was to go to a travel agent and interview them. Then I realized that wouldn’t do me any good. I needed somebody who had experience and enjoys traveling. So I got the email address from my friend and I emailed him. I introduced myself and told him about the passion project. After a couple of exchanges we found a time to meet up. We met at the Starbucks inside Safeway on 39th/SE Powell on 4-15-2010. Of course I forgot to give Paul my phone number. I had to call up my friend and ask her what he looked like and for his number. But it all worked out in the end.
The interview went pretty well, I had a lot of fun listening to him talk about all of his trips. I had come up with twenty-one questions to ask him regarding his travels. We talked for about an hour and in the end I was like wow and jealous. Paul and his husband travel for fun and he traveled for his whole life. In the beginning I actually thought he traveled for church. I know some people travel with their church and go on a mission trip. Obviously I didn’t know but that was what I thought. Paul is really spirited and just has a lot of time on his hands. He doesn’t like having a schedule. He is heading to London soon and they (him and his husband) will rent a car and just drive around. In other words, he just goes with the flow. I hope sometime in my life I will be able to travel around the world. I think the key thing is to work really hard and to not have any kids. Then I would have a lot of money.
After interviewing him, I realized why I want to travel so badly. I want to see the world and see all the different cultures. I think that would be more memorable then sitting in class learning about economics. (If that made any sense) During the interview he mentioned about being in Berlin and how their car almost got craned away (They use cranes to tow away cars). Now that is something worth remembering. I don’t know if this interview was so much about me learning new things. It just led me to think studying abroad or whatever you learn so much more. Actually being there would actually stick to your mind, as opposed to reading a textbook. Not everything can fit into a textbook especially every little detail and area. I don’t know if I am making any sense but it is something that is hard to explain.
This was a great subject for my passion interview. I wouldn’t interview anybody else. I grew up traveling and I loved it, now after interviewing Paul it makes me want to travel more. Later on in life if I travel to places like Berlin and I see a crane, I might think of Paul and his memories with it.
She interviewed me back in April, before that volcano in Iceland redirected our latest trip to the East Coast.
