Day 26: Interview Project

About twenty years ago, I created a project that required students to interview a family member or friend who had traveled or lived in a foreign country.  Most chose a veteran, but some picked people who had served in the Peace Corps or emigrated.  It became an important community-based personal history project. All over town, families talked about their experiences and secrets were revealed.

Today I was interviewed for the project and it was a joy.  Since I stopped teaching, I have not had opportunities to tell my stories about holding a baby panda in China or finding a bathtub full of red ants in Morocco.  Michaela asked a few questions and then let me talk.

I went through all my travel journals and created a chronology of travel from 1993 through 2012.  Twenty years of foreign travel and I thought going to Iceland in June would be country number 30.  But, I found that we had never been to Luxembourg, as I had thought.  So now, we have to visit another country in the fall to make it to 30!