Jeorgia-Roach-1

GRP223 Assignment 1 Interview Questions STOCK QUESTIONS 1. Who do you most admire? My parents, because theyʼve always been so down to earth, and, in my opinion, theyʼve raised me in the perfect way. If I could be anything like them when I grow up Iʼd be happy. 2. What is the biggest risk you have ever taken? 3. What is the best advice you have been given? To make sure that you donʼt regret anything you do. It doesnʼt matter what other people think, just as long as you donʼt regret it when youʼre older. It doesnʼt matter what you do in life as long as you donʼt regret it. 4. What/who motivates you? God, Jesus, the Bible, being a Christian. 5. What has been the highlight of the year so far? Dying my hair. Being able to do something for charity and feeling like Iʼm actually making a difference. Coming back to Uni and being able to stand-out for a good cause, rather than just being invisible. 6. If you could make a difference this year, what would it be? Being able to raise awareness for the Leukemia Foundation, being able to highlight what a good cause it is to just one person on campus, just to get the word out there. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS 1. Have you, or someone close to you, been touched by cancer? My momʼs sister had breast cancer and had to have a masectomy. She is fully recovered now. " Another one of my aunts, my fatherʼs brotherʼs second wife had some kind of cancer. She was battling that for several years and eventually started getting better, but she got another brain tumour and passed away two years ago. " My fatherʼs dad had prostate cancer. One of the fatherʼs from my church had prostate cancer and passed away a year and a half ago. " I never got to meet my mumʼs dad because he had leukemia and passed away before I was born. " There was also a girl at Uni, who went to my high school, she is a cancer survivor. She is so brave and so strong and I canʼt imagine not knowing her and all of the lives she has touched. " One of my friends in year 7/8 lost her aunt to breast cancer, and her mum was also diagnosed with breast cancer. I have known so many people affected by cancer. 2. How do you think this has affected your desire to raise money and awareness for cancer? I have experienced first hand how it can affect families. Having never been someone in my immediate family, we havenʼt actually been affected by it, but seeing how the families who have been directly affected have reacted to it has affected my desire to help. Any kind of support you can give them goes a long way. They at least know someone is there, they have a support network. 3. How do you think it would affect your desire to raise money and awareness for cancer? 4. If you were diagnosed with cancer today, what would you do about it? I figure, since I have known a lot people who have survived it, if there was a chance for me to survive I would have the surgery. If it was terminal, I would probably drop-out of uni, spend more times with friends and family, do the things that I wanted to do. 5. If you had the option to have life-saving surgery, but with a low survival rate, would you undertake it? I think I would take it if itʼs life-saving, youʼre going to die anyway. I would definitely take the surgery, anything that gives you a ray of hope, however small, is better than nothing. 6. Do you think more should be being done to assist those with cancer and their families? I donʼt know what else can be done. I think raising money and raising awareness. You can only help out the families so much before they stop asking for help. There is always more that can be done. Try to get the message out to the people, if you canʼt get the message out, what can you do? I just think theyʼre all just separate ways of getting the message out. Essentially I donʼt think thereʼs anything else that can be done beyond that. 7. Does the thought of being diagnosed with cancer ever scare you? Yeah. I mean, itʼs potentially lethal, it could kill you. Itʼs just like asking, is the thought of having your arm cut off scare you? Youʼd be without your arm, and even if you survive cancer it changes you. I think change for a lot of people can be scary. I donʼt know what Iʼd do. 8. If you could guarantee a cure for cancer in the next 10 years would you give 75% of your weekly monetary earnings to help achieve this goal? Definitely. 9. What made you choose The Leukemia Foundation as a charity to support? I donʼt know, itʼs just a really good cause. Iʼve been affected by it, a lot of people have been affected by it. Especially at Uni itʼs hard to get money to raise funds, doing something where you can raise funds so easily is really important. Dying your hair, I think it really gets peoples attention. 10. Why did you choose to colour your hair, rather than shaving it? Just to stand out more. If youʼre bald you can wear beanies and stuff, when itʼs coloured you canʼt really hide it that well. 11. Are you involved with any other Cancer awareness organizations? Iʼve been involved with the Cancer Council Relay for Life, Iʼve been going every year for the past three years and I plan on participating this year in Canberra. I love the first lap with the survivors and carers, it really brings it home. Not everyone takes part, but so many people still do, it really takes you by surprise. 13. Do you have any interest in other charities? Jeans for Genes, my friends and I helped organise that in year 11. We sold cupcakes and other home-baked goods that weʼd made. We raised a couple of hundred dollars, which was a good effort. Iʼve always been involved in charities, but that was one that I actually helped organise rather than just participated in. 14. Is this the first time youʼve been personally involved in fundraising for The Leukemia Foundation? Iʼve donated before, but Iʼve never actually done anything to raise money. This is the first time Iʼve ever coloured or shaved. People at my high school used to colour and shave, and I would donate. Now itʼs my turn to raise money. 15. If no, was this time around more or less challenging then the last time? 16. If yes, have you found this fundraising campaign to be challenging? I kind of underestimated how hard it would be to get the message out to people. A couple of people have just sort of walked up to me and been like “Aaw, cool hair” and just walked off, and I didnʼt really get a chance to explain to them. But once I have explained to people about the charity and stuff and theyʼve seen what Iʼve done to my hair they usually are more than willing to give $10/$15 which is really cool. Getting the message out there is quite challenging which I had kind of underestimated but people are very generous so the actual collecting money in itself is quite simple and easy. 17. As of this interview, how much money have you raised towards your cause? $620. 18. Has this inspired you to strive for more donations next year? I probably wonʼt do it next year. Just cause I am aware that there are other people on campus that are doing the same thing, plus I think itʼs better as a once off, personally. I mean sure there should be people fundraising every year and stuff but I think for you to do it yourself every year youʼre going to be hitting the same target group of people and the point is to raise awareness if anything, so I think your message will have already reached them, so to give it to another demographic/group. I donʼt think Iʼd do it next year, but Iʼll definitely support people who would. 19. Do you feel like this experience has changed you in any way? Itʼs kind of taught me to talk to people, people that I usually wouldnʼt. Because thereʼll be strangers whoʼll be like “Cool hair” and that opens up a whole new opportunity, conversation that you wouldnʼt have had before. Itʼs definitely changed me for the better just to open up to people more. 20. What advice would you give to other young people trying to get involved in charity fundraising? Donʼt underestimate how hard it is to make people listen. Because itʼs easier for me because I have a conversation starter attached to my scalp, but a lot of people might not have that, they might just have a badge or something and that isnʼt really as noticeable. So, I think just know what youʼre getting yourself into. Every little bit counts so I wouldnʼt say not go for it, definitely go for it. 21. Do you feel like the public has responded more positively to you colouring your hair for Leukemia than if you had shaved it? It depends what youʼre looking at, what word youʼre looking at in that sentence. If itʼs “positively” I think they wouldʼve reacted positively to either, but if itʼs “more positively” I think they have reacted more to colouring my hair than if Iʼd shaved it. Because I do know for a fact that last year at least one girl shaved her head for the Leukemia Foundation, so I think just having it coloured for the Leukemia Foundation just brings a bit of variety, which I think is needed. I think people have reacted more than if Iʼd shaved it, but positively I think that would have happened either way. 22. Briefly discuss one positive experience you have had whilst your hair has been coloured. I wouldnʼt say thereʼs just one. I just think of all the people that I have talked to about it that I generally wouldnʼt talk about something like that, let alone actually start up a conversation in the first place. So I think, yeah, the best experiences have just been when I can share the message with people because that is fundamentally what I was trying to do.

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