Wednesday, October 22, 2008

It was tough deciding who I wanted to interview, being from a small town you don't really meet a lot of people that have actually done something in their lives that is worth interviewing. Yeah there are some people that do some cool things, but I don't know if there is enough to get 5-7 pages worth. I went through some people I knew that would be the best and it came down to either a friend or a brother. Then one day when some friends from my hometown were talking one of our teachers were brought up into conversation. I never even thought about my history teacher until then. Mr. Fair, my history/geography/economics/law and justice teacher all throughout high school taught me and told hundreds of stories. This guy had done everything in life, been to all the states except Hawaii and Alaska, drove bike with Jay Leno and plenty of crazy things that most people don't do in a lifetime. Besides being an adventurous person, Doug Fair was very smart and talented. In high school he played football, basketball, baseball and track. He went to state in almost all of those and even holds records for some events. Being our history teacher, he knows plenty of things about the World. He can name every country and its capital, and knows a variety of languages, but not to their full extent. I know enough information about Mr. Fair to write a book on him.

I'm going home on Friday of this week, so that is when I'll do my interview. Either talk to him at a football game or a volleyball game. He is always in the same spot and will gladly do a quick interview. For some of the questions I want to ask him about is child life. I know some things like his parents died when he was young and his older sister took care of him. But there are so many things that he has done in his life that I would like to know how he got into it all.

I'd have to ask if all of his stuff is true, though a lot of it seems sketchy, but he always sticks to his word and sometimes has proof of the stuff he has done, like a newspaper article of him in the newspaper with the governor of North Dakota at a high school basketball team, while they were both playing.

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