My interview objectives and core questions

As previously said, in the last assignment, my country on which I made the report is Ivory Coast. Next thing will be the interview process. Now this is my first time interviewing people, so I am a little bit nervous about it. I am to find three persons from Ivory Coast and ask them some questions about their country. So, in this process, my objectives are:

• Learn more on Ivory Coast
• Compare what the people that live there say with what’s on the internet;
• Find out how is their coming to the USA related to their country;
•  Gain experience as an interviewer.

To be prepared for the interview, I prepared 12 core questions that I am going to ask my interviewees. Here are the core questions:

1. Could you tell me about yourself?(your name, home country) 
2. Why did you choose to study at St. Cloud State University? 
3. What is the difference in educational systems between your country and North America? 
4. What are you planning to do after school? 
5. Would you like to tell me about your country? 
6. What are major holidays in your country? 
7. What is your traditional food? 
8. How is the political system of your country structured? 
9. What are your country's major religions? 
10. What’s considered offensive in your country? 
11. What do you perceive as differences between your culture and the American culture? 
12. Do you have any questions for me, now that I have had the pleasure of asking you about so many things?

So those are the core questions on which I am going to be rehearsing as I am getting prepared for my interview. I certainly might end up adding more questions at the interview spot, depending on how it is going. But for now let us stick with these 12 questions and see how it goes.