Interviewer: César Iafrate Castelhano

Interviewee: Rebecca Romani

Interview setting: Interview conducted in the Extended Studies Center, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday morning.

Affiliation with interviewee: Rebecca has been my teacher of Oral Communications this session.

Interviewer: When you were a child, what did you expect to be when you grow up?

Interviewee: Wow, that's a good question! One of the things I wanted to be was an archeologist. I wanted an interpreter
(translator) and I thought to be a writer too.

Interviewer: In your job, what are exactly your duties and obligations?

Interviewee: I teach different levels of classes, so I need to develop materials to my classes, I need to keep on top of
cultural changes, because some of classes are about culture. For the film classes, I have to watch films, to be aware of
what I can show and I have to do a lot of reading to prepare for lectures. Also, I help students with statements of
purpose for university applications, advising them how to observe SDSU classes and, you know, about university and
American culture.

Interviewer: What would be your dream job?

Interviewee: Oh, hehehe. Funny you ask that one! Right now, my dream job is to work for national public radio or for
the LA Times, for example. And to work overseas, preferably into Asia or Egypt.

Interviewer: Besides work, which other thing would you like to stop doing and keep living?

Interviewee: Oh, cleaning the house! I don't want to clean the house anyway!

Interviewer: If you could teleport, where would you go right now?

Interviewee: I would probably go to Paris, to visit my friends...or I might also interested in going to Syria too, to see what
stories I could cover for newspapers.

Interviewer: How do you think the world would be without music?

Interviewee: Terrible! Terrible! I think music is very important to human beings. The ability to listen to it and the ability
to make it. And I think a good example of what would happen to the world without music is what was happening in Mali
recently where a band music was prohibited. And Mali is a very prolific source of music, they have a lot of musicians
there. Music is the part of the fabric of the culture and many Malians felt that their culture had been destroyed by the
prohibition of the band on music. So, I really think that music a natural state of human beings, then without it, we would
die!

Interviewer: When you go to a karaoke, what kind of music do you usually sing?

Interviewee: When I go to a karaoke, I usually sing traditional Jazz. Usually like New Orleans Jazz, the Jazz from the 30's
and 40's, Billy Holliday, things like that.
Interviewer: If you had a time machine, when would you go?

Interviewee: Oh, Wow! That's a really good question! Where would I go back to? Probably two eras: I think I would go
back to The Reinassance, that would be interesting; and maybe the time of Al Andalus in Spain (900-1492).

Interviewer: If you could bring back dead people alive, who would you bring? Why?

Interviewee: Oh, I would bring back my grandmothers. Because I miss them and now that I'm older, I think about them
and I think about things they told me and I realize, you know, there are things I missed, things I misunderstood...you
know, they were just good people.

Interviewer: Would you break a law or risk your life to save one of your friends or someone you love?

Interviewee: Oh yes, definitly! Easily, easily!