The minute, hour, day, and week before my interview, I felt a little nervous but excited to meet the person I had to interview because I wasn't really prepared, and I thought, “This is somebody with a lot of experience, I don't want to mess anything up!”
I surprised myself with the interview because even though I had prepared at the last minute for Mr. Gordon Geballe, I ended up asking him many questions. I was so proud of myself and grateful to him for answering everything. He told me a great deal about what he does and how he enjoys his volunteer job but works for Yale and loves every minute of both jobs.
My assumption of Mr. Geballe was "He probably isn't really going to answer any of my questions and is going to rush right through the whole interview.” This idea changed when we sat down and he began talking a little about himself and what he does. He drew me into his world of volunteering and his place at Yale and how he chose to be a scientist and teacher.
I learned it's good to meet new people and to learn about their lives and what they do, because you never know when you might have the same interests, like drawing, Gypsy Jazz music or the creative dancing of Urban Bush Women.
There is so much creativity out there that we don’t get to see on a daily basis because sometimes, there is this attitude in my community that we would rather stay away from people or just find it better to be sheltered with what we already know. But, we all have a creative person inside of us, it’s just that we express ourselves in different ways -- anger, happiness, self-pain, drawing, painting, singing, dancing, screaming, and, sometimes, laughter. We should always give people a chance to be heard or seen; we can’t always take up the spotlight, we all are who we are, but we can learn from each other by trying to see the world through each other’s eyes.