This process was most definitely a learning experience. We asked Vanessa what the best lesson that she learned from her time in the Congo to her time in the United States and her answer was heartwarming. After a process such as this, I've learned a lot as well. For my future writing situations, I want to take away what I learned from the interviewing process. As a journalism major, interviewing is something that I should be extremely knowledgable about and I am, but feel that I learned more through this . Because this interview hit very close to home, it was important that my questions did not make Vanessa feel uncomfortable. I learned to ask what she wanted to speak about first, what made her comfortable and what was most important for the story at hand. I learned that it is important to listen and write and then ask questions once the interviewee is done speaking about a specific topic. I want to remember certain aspects of writing for public audiences such as taking into consideration who the audience is and what the topic is before spewing questions and assumptions at the person. It is important to note the difference between an interview and an interview with a person who is telling a personal story. My work in this class helped me develop my capacity to become a critical consumer and producer of public multimodal disclosure because I was exposed to both sides of the work. Having to learn and understand the concepts of making up interview questions in order to tell a heart wrenching personal story in someone else's words than my own is extremely difficult, but also telling someone's story with my own video and text is also difficult.