Final Projects

On Monday, each person from my Hangzhou group presented for their final project. Everyone watched: the NSLI-Y participants, the host siblings, the teachers, the host institution principle, and the resident director. I originally was going to do boba, but we needed three I interviews. I think it's pretty hard interviewing about boba. I've tried interviewing some people a few days before the project about boba, and this is basically what I got from the first two people I approached. 

Interviewee #1 ------------ 
Me: "Do you like boba?" 
Person: "Yea." 
Me: "Why do you like boba?" 
Person: "............" 

Interviewee #2------------ 
Me: "Hi, I'm conducting a survey for a project in school about boba. Could I ask you a few questions about this topic?" 
Person: **Shakes head** 

It was also hard for me to come up with questions, and also I couldn't ask shops about how they make boba because most of them purchase boba from companies. I didn't feel like boba was the right topic, so I decided to switch to bargaining. I thought that bargaining was a good topic because it's easier to conduct interviews. I interviewed my host grandmother, host aunt, and a shopkeeper in a stationary. I asked them what techniques they use while bargaining, and it was actually fun to present. The presentation had to be spoken all in Chinese, be 5-7 minutes long, include details from interviews, include vocab words, and just anything about what your topic is. I thought my presentation went pretty well. I saw the audience laughing when I was talking about what techniques can be used, so I think that's a good thing, right? I also had two people from the audience (no one volunteered except Matthew so I had him come up and just called Haley to come up) do a short bargaining scene. I also gave them some stationary items for "volunteering." I saw a teacher crying of laughter so I think the skit went well. 

We went through 19 kids having 5-7 minute long presentations afterschool, so it took quite a while. Here are some pictures of a few of the people who went.

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