blog 4 interview

Morgan Hummel

4/17/19

Hi everyone, so for the blog I decided to interview one of my best friends. Celeste and I are complete opposites in a lot of ways, but our friendship is one I wouldn’t trade for anything. We have gone to school together since middle school. We cheered together in high school and got close in English our senior year after the accident. The story of how we became friends is one I love to tell. After cheer practice one day I was backing out of my parking spot as she was driving down the row, and I backed into her car. We both got out and looked at the new scratches in our cars and each other and both said we didn’t want to tell our moms and determined we would buff out the scratches. Ever since then we have been best friends. So, telling everyone you met your best friend because you hit her with your car, is very interesting. Anyway, Celeste was born in Mexico, so her upbringing was very different than mine. My family is very German, and my dad was born on an air force base is Germany. We are definitely very different people, and talking to Celeste was fun. With this interview I got to learn a lot not only about another culture, but about my best friends’ childhood.

Question 1 = “why did you come to the united states?”

Celeste had told me she was born in Mexico so of course this was my first question. Her answer was that she was born there by accident. Her parents are both American citizens. They traveled to Mexico to visit her sick grandmother and she was born a month early while her parents where visiting.

Question 2 = “What was your favorite food growing up?”

Answer = “Carne Asada”

Question 3 = “How did your culture impact the foods you liked growing up?”

Answer = “I liked a lot of spicier foods”

Question 4 = “What foods did you eat for special occasions, birthdays, Christmas, thanksgiving?”

Answer = “For birthdays we would have Carne Asada or tacos and tres leches cake. For thanksgiving we did the traditional American thanksgiving with turkey and all the sides (since it is more of an American tradition, we don’t normally even celebrate it, but if we do that’s what we eat). For Christmas we always made tamales.”