Friday, 9 November 2012

"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery,Today is a Gift."

I've just conducted my first ever interview and I don't think it could have gone any better.
I take a class called Sociology of Aging and part of my course requires me to write a ten page paper based on an interview with someone over sixty-five. I've attended a couple of United Nations talks where I was fortunate enough to get on well with the president of the chapter who volunteered to be interviewed. She invited me over her house where her and her husband cooked me a lovely dinner and even poured me a glass of wine and we talked for ages about their travels around the world and each others lives. Then, after dinner we sat down and I interviewed her for my paper. I just can't believe how interesting her life was! She was a nun for years until the Civil Rights movement where she realized the inequalities in the Catholic faith so she left. Just as she left the south had passed a law that for the first time ever it had become compulsory to educate disabled children so she became one of the first ever teachers, in the south, of children with disabilities. I just found her so interesting, she even ended the interview with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt "Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery,Today is a Gift." How amazing is that? So America, I am going to write up this paper then go out there and continue to appreciate every second of this amazing experience.

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