Personal Narrative: My Interview As A Social Worker

This paper informs an individual of how I engaged in an interview with a young lady name Angela Bright. She told me a little about the culture, the food, describing the culture’s respect for one another etc. Interviewing with Angela made me open my eyes more about other cultures. I also explain the language that is used by the culture and what they value in life. I described what setting the interview was conducted in and how was they environment. I also engaged with different members of Angela’s family to see how they would interact with me. Angela even gave me great advice on how to become a great social worker. She explained to me that becoming a social worker is very rewarding and sometime can get a little overwhelming because of the case …show more content…
While learning about the Nigerian culture, it made me want to write a book about them because their lives are so different and unique. Even though my race is closely related to Nigeria, I still wanted to learn about what types of foods they eat? Their religion? Their way of living etc. What even impressed me more, was that Angela is a social worker so that grew me closer to her. The main person I interviewed was Angela, but luckily I met with her whole family because it was game day. When I first stepped into the home, everyone told me “Koyo” which meant hello in Nigeria. Angela also spoke Antigua Official language which is English, but it is combined with local slang and phrases which is called broken English. For example: I’m going to work would be (Me a go ah work). A spoke with her little girl that was fourteen years old and she was very cute and talkative with curly brown long hair. I also met with her baby son who was one years old and he could barely talk. We ate different type of Island food such as Goat, Curray rice, Suya, Banga etc. These foods were very delightful and we also ate different types of desserts such as Nigerian Puff Puff, Nigerian Coconut Candy, Shuku Shuku etc. Angela was used to speaking English because she had some family that spoke English in …show more content…
Nigerian language is very much so like English, but Nigerians add their own spice to the language. One example would be Good morning would be Ekuojumo. Another example would be How are you? And in Nigeria this is Se daadaa ni? Nigerians uses this language to get from place to place on a daily basis. If they did not use these words, they probably would not know how to get around nor greet people to see how their day is going. My interpretations of this culture would bet that they are very sweet and caring. While talking to Mrs. Angela she was very delightful and she offered me a lot of food. Knowing that I could not eat that much, I took them anyway out of the kindness of my heart. When we began talking, she gave me compliments on my outfit and my hair style. She stated that she always wanted hair like mine and that it was hard to get her hair my way because she was use to her dread