In preparation for your first meeting activity with your
partner, do your best to guess what life has been like for your partner.

Do your best to
answer these questions:

1. What kinds of things would your partner do for fun as a
child? What kinds of things do you think they do for fun now?

2. List what you think might have been the main topics that
were of concern for their community as they were growing up?

3. In the community that they were raised in, what were the
three most important holidays, and what was the meaning behind these holidays
for their family and community?

4. Who were the most respected and most trusted people in
their community and why?

5. How do you think that the answers to each of these four
questions would be different if your partner was raised in the same community
you were raised in? (Answer each of the questions again, imagining that they
were raised in the same community as you were.)

Decide the best way to communicate with your partner in a
way that you can record your
communication (IM, Skype, Adobe Connect, Google Talk, etc). Share your
answers to the questions with each other, and see how close you were to
guessing correctly.

Post your answers and things you learned from the discussion to the
research space.

Follow-up assignment
- listen to the recording of your discussion some time over the next couple
days and see if you learn anything new from listening to the conversation in
retrospect.

• Is
  there anything your partner said that perhaps you didn’t really understand
  as you listen to your conversation again?
• Is
  there anything that you think maybe your partner didn’t catch from what
  you meant when you said certain things?
• Listening
  to the conversation again and thinking in retrospect, are there any
  addition questions you would have liked to ask?
• Is
  there anything new that you learn from listening to your conversation
  again later?

Post what your answers to these questions and what you learned on the
research space.