April 19th

Tuesday, April 19th

Today was another great day for my project, and I got a lot of things done! First, I went to Lovett this morning for Spanish class. I brought the microphone that I have been using for my recordings so that I could teach the people in my Spanish class how to use it. It was a fun tutorial session and I really enjoyed teaching them how to use the Snowball microphone. After that, I wrote a bunch of questions that I want to ask for my contacts who only speak Spanish. I wrote these questions in English, and Mrs. Mitchell helped a lot with translating them! I don't have specific dates for the two Spanish interviews yet, but I'm happy that I am now prepared for them.

 When I got home, I conducted my second interview! It was with Blakely Mattern, former professional soccer player turned coach. At first, we caught up because we hadn't spoken to each other in a while, but then after I started asking her the real questions. She had some very interesting experiences with soccer and they made for some great responses for questions. Growing up, she even played on a boys team for 3 years so she could get some higher level play. I also thought it was very interesting hearing about her experience playing professionally. She played both in the professional league in the US and in a professional league in the Netherlands, and her comparison between these two experiences was not what I expected. Overall, the interview went very well, and I'm super excited to keep working on it and editing it!