Interview

Questions

1. Good evening ….
2. What’s your name?
3. Do you have any children?
4. What kind of work do you do?
5. I heard you were a volunteer in a foreign country a couple of years ago. To which country did you go to and why?
6. Why did you go there?
7. Whom did you go with? Or did you go alone?
8. What will you never forget about your experience there and what part of your stay did you like the most?
9. Can anyone be a volunteer?
10. How long did you stay there?
11. Do you think you can do enough for the people there if you stay for just a short period of time? Do you think you can help them significantly when, for example, you stay for like six months?
12. Do you think that the Dutch government should do more to support countries that are in need of help?
13. Would you like to go back?
14. Were your trip and your volunteering job there arranged by an organization, or did you plan everything on your own?
15. Would you recommend other people to go abroad?
16. Was your family disappointed or were they enthusiastic about your choice to go abroad
17. Did you have doubts before you went there or were you, perhaps, a bit afraid to go?
18. Have you spent a lot of time preparing yourself for this work?
19. Did you like the country and the people when you first got there?
20. Did you feel that you fitted in this foreign country? Did their way of living in any way fit yours?
21. What was the most difficult for you in moving to Botswana? What was the most difficult aspect of life there that you had to get used to?
22. Are you still in touch with the people there?
23. Do you ever do presentations about your experiences?
24. Have you experienced things that you had no knowing of in advance?
25. Have you taken a lot of pictures while you were there? Or did you do any filming at all?
26. Have you made a diary?