Blog Entry 4

I followed up with my interview from last week, the vegan female from California. This time, it was a Facetime interview instead of a phone interview and she was able to show me artifacts in her home.

We continued to talk about her and her husbands’ efforts to live an environmentally-friendly lifestyle. I told her that my mom purchased metal reusable straws for me because I like to used straws and then asked if she had something similar. She proceeded to tell me: “Well Jordan and I actually both have wooden straws, along with wooden forks and spoons that we take basically everywhere with us. We don’t usually use the straws, though… just because we take our water bottles everywhere and usually have our reusable coffee mugs so we don’t really have a need.” She then showed me her wooden straw and reusable spoon.

I then proceeded to ask her about her lifestyle, and how she might describe it. She responded: “Well, Jordan and I are both really active and really busy. I don’t know if either of those things is because we’re vegan, though. I like to be active by riding my bike or going to Crossfit classes, but I do that because it makes me feel good. I’m also super busy because I’m in school right now and I’m trying to find a job now that my hip is almost healed (had hip surgery).”