Blog 21: Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing you learned from the interview?
    The most important thing I learned is that even though my second answer (customer service) may be a common answer. I does play a major roll in my topic. The most important thing for the shelter is the public, with out the people the shelter would be nothing, who would adopt the animals? Animal shelters are already seen as negative in the first place, so if the customer service is bad it would just make the shelters reputation worse. Like I said before without the people animals won't get adopted.

2. How will what I learned affect my final lesson? 
    What I learn would affect my final lesson by opening my audience eye that not all employees at the shelter are grumpy and rude like some. I'm helping my audience by explaining to they that they do not need to be afraid of coming because of those people. Talk to the people that truly do care about the animals, trust me they will help you and give you more information and background.

Click here to listen to audio
  (it stopped recording halfway, that's why it's so short)

Blog 17: Interview 3 Reflection

This is the person that I interviewed. His name is Kyle and he is a kennel attendant at my mentorship 

1. what is the most important thing I learned from the interview?
    I basically learned more about my topic. My interviewee also helped me think of more answers and more activity ideas. I also learned a bit more about my interviewee and got to see how they viewed the shelter.

2. How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
    I feel like interviewing does help in a way. For example you get to see what they see and you get to hear what they have to say about the topic. You also get to see how passionate people are about their jobs and topics. But I feel information wise it did not really help me.

Interview 3 audio 

Blog 10: Interview 2 Reflection



ASPCA is an organization that helps all sorts of care centers
(my care center is one of them)

click here to listen to Interview 2

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)
I do my mentorship/volunteering at a animal care center. I am not shadowing as much. I usually work on my own but I do shadow the kennel officers at the care center. This mentorship/volunteer actually does help with a part of my research but not all. Most of the people at the care center are not really experts by doing research and schooling. They learn by experience. The reason they learn from experience, is because you can't really learn by just doing research. One is able to research all they like about a dog but it wouldn't be as useful as learning hands on.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?   
      When I would volunteer we would spend a lot of time with the kennel officers. So I asked one of them to help me with my project. His name is Jaime Ramos, he is very kind and helpful when it comes to helping the volunteers.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

  I actually got a bit more comfortable with my mentor when I did my interview. In person I don't really spend as much time as I would like because he has other things that he is busy with. But if I need help or if I want to know something I would go to him and ask.

ASPCA travels around Los Angeles to do things like free
spay and neutering dogs and cats                                     

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

 The thing that went well in this interview is that I got to know my mentor a bit more and I am a bit more comfortable with him. I think I'm not sure if he is completely comfortable as I am. I think so because I got to know more about his personal life and why he does the things he does.

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

Click here to listen to the interview audio 

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews? 
The most important thing I learned was, resources that you read can teach you one thing and experience can teach you something way different. I actually wouldn't change anything for the other interviews. The first interview was actually pretty good because we took our time and I asked follow up questions (kinda). 

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

This was one of the dogs that was talked about in the interview

        I actually did get addition contacts but i didn't really get any sources. I feel like the contacts will actually be useful for my topic. I think they will help me because they know a bit more about dog behavior than my interviewee. 

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 
       My interviewee was qualified to help me because he has worked at the shelter. So if he has work at the shelter for so long I would assumed he knows a lot about dog behavior. When I volunteer at the shelter he actually points out the dogs behaviors and how to handle the dogs. 

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
      The person I plan on interviewing the head volunteer coordinator of the volunteer program at the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter. The name of my interviewee is Rudy Gaona. I plan on interviewing Mr. Gaona because he has been working at the shelter for quite sometime. He has handled all kinds of animals especially dogs. So he I am sure Mr. Gaona all different types of animal behaviors.

2.  Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?
       Have you encountered any animals that no on could handle? If so how did you guys handle it? 
       Can you tell me the different types if behaviors you seen in the shelter