Ethnography - Part III

So, I finished the exercise yesterday (Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009). Sadly, I didn't recognize any of the people from previous days except for a homeless man (there was only one today), and I didn't want to rouse him since he was sleeping. The homeless men were the only ones to make multiple appearances throughout the three days. Anyhow, after observing for a while and taking some notes, I began to scout out possible interviewees. I tried to aim for people who were alone, but most people there were on dates or in groups. I first approached a Japanese businessman who was sitting alone reading manga, but he declined. After walking around a bit, I finally decided on a pair of young people, a girl playing guitar, and a guy whom I assumed was her boyfriend. I introduced myself and decided to interview the guy, mostly because I didn't want to interrupt the girl's music. The interview was conducted in Japanese (they seemed to understand what I was saying despite my terrible accent), so I've translated it.

Basic Information (recorded in my notebook):

Name: Keiji
Age: 21
Occupation: Student at a senmon gakkou (I didn't recognize what type of school this was. Senmon means major and gakkou means school, so at first I thought he was saying his major was education or something; upon seeing that I didn't understand, he turned to his girlfriend asking how he should explain it, but I said that it was okay. Later I asked my host mother and she said that a senmon gakkou is a vocational school)
Hometown: Saga Prefecture
Current Town: Tokyo

Questions (recorded on my cell phone; he seemed rather entertained by this. His answers were very short, I think partially because he wanted to make it simple since I'm obviously not a fluent speaker):

Do you often come to Yoyogi Park? When? Sundays. Holidays. (he said this part in English).

Why do you come? Because it's fun.

What do you think of homeless people? They're dirty. It seems like a hard life.

Do you think that Yoyogi Park has changed at all recently? Yes, it's become more beautiful.

After I was done, I thanked him and apologized for my terrible Japanese (naturally, he said, "no, no, you're very good"). Here you can listen to the interview (again, I'm really bad at speaking Japanese):

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