PART 1.2 Caleb Interview — Learn English with Camille

Camille: What were some things that you like to do as a child growing up?

Caleb: Yeah, man, some things that I enjoyed doing? I really liked, um, I love music, so I started playing the piano when I was in the third grade, so probably, I don't know what age that really is, I just always tell people in the third grade.

Camille: So, I think it's like my son is seven, and he's in first grade so maybe nine.

Caleb: Yeah, probably around that age, um, and so I always played piano growing up, um, and then I used to play baseball, okay, um, and then I started as I got older, um, probably around 12, I started playing tennis, and I actually like stuck with that, and still play it today.

Camille: Oh, wow, it's amazing. That's great exercise.

Caleb: Yeah, it is, it is.

Camille: And did you take piano lessons, or are you self-taught?

Caleb: Yeah, so I took piano lessons from around nine until actually I came to South Carolina. So, I took lessons from 9 to 18.

Camille: Wow.

Caleb: Um, and then actually, when I was in university, um, the last two years of university, I took piano lessons, um, as part of like my major, and like my

studies, that I was doing at school, yeah.

Camille: Yeah, and where did you go to university?

Caleb: Um yeah, I went to a school called North Greenville University, um it's here in Greenville, South Carolina. It's a small private liberal arts school, um, about 2,500 students.

Camille: Oh, wow. Caleb: Yeah. Camille: And what was your major?

Caleb: Yeah, my major, uh, was called interdisciplinary studies, which is where you take two majors, um, and you combine them into really one, um, and so you have a primary focus, and then you have a secondary focus.

Camille: Okay.

Caleb: Um, and so my primary focus was music, and then my secondary focus was like

Christian studies, or religious studies, um, and then I actually snuck in some psychology

courses in there as well.

Camille: Wow.

Caleb: Um, so that was kind of like, it's kind of like a conglomerate,

like a mixture of of different things, yeah.

Camille: How was your university experience?

Caleb: I loved my university experience, I just found family there, and just some really, really close friends, that I'm still friends with today. I mean I started university in 2011, and finished in 2015, and some of those people that I met back in 2011, I've known for 10 years now.

Camille: Wow.

Caleb: Um, and we're still friends, and they still live in the area, and we hang out and stuff like that.

Camille: That's really cool.

Caleb: Um, it was good, I loved where I went because it was small, so I really felt like I was seen, and not like just another number, um, like larger universities can have.

Camille: Yeah.

Caleb: And just made really really really good friendships,

Camille: Wow.

Caleb: That really poured into me, and cared about me, and we could do that for each other.

Camille: It was a mutual thing.

Caleb: Yeah, exactly, exactly it wasn't one-sided at all yeah, yeah.