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Biography of Woody Adotevi
By: Jim Heuler

Woody Adotevi was born in Lome, the capital and largest city of Togo. In addition to living in Togo, Woody has also lived in Cote d’Ivoire and France. He has a brother and a sister. When Woody is not studying for his degree in Business Administration, he is either playing soccer with friends or traveling. On the weekends Woody likes to go clubbing with friends or just relax at home. After Woody graduates he hopes to pursue a Masters degree at a prestigious university. Woody even had the opportunity to work in the music recording and production industry. He was a member of a committee that was in charge of the company’s external coordination’s. Woody has traveled to the countries of France, Germany, Belgium, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, and Gabon. His favorite food is Fufu. Fufu is a staple of Western and Central Africa. He does not know how to make it but says the main ingredient in Fufu is mashed yams. Woody also had the opportunity to attend an American School back home. He says that even though he disagrees with many of the United States’ international policies he views the United States as a very liberal country. As far as American pop culture is concerned, Woody likes the American Pie movies, Gladiator, Uncle Sam, and the hit sitcom series Friends.

Biography of Jim Heuler
By: Woody Adotevi

Even though, Jim spent much of his life in the US, he firmly believes in an universal culture with certain values that are shared all accross the globe. He believes much in family life and had been blessed to have friends he rarely get into conflict with. At free time, he enjoys playing Golf, Lacrosse, and Hockey.He is not at his first experience with virtual teams, he had been involved in a project with Netherland students in his first year of college. Jim is majoring in Information Science and Technology and is considering pursuing a Master Degree in Business Administration. Furthermore, he’s held an internship last summer at Del Monte Foods located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and hope to attend the same position this summer.

Biography of Paulina Potapova
By: Chris Griffith

Paulina is currently a sophomore at La Salle University majoring in business administration. After graduating, she hopes to come to the states to get her master’s degree. She loves to watch movies, as long as they are not Sci-fi or anything to unrealistic. Paulina also likes to go to the gym to feel relieved from working out and disconnect from any problems plaguing her. On her weekends she tries to always do something different, from soccer games to going to movies to hanging out with friends and clubbing. She then can return home to her three dogs, which she considers her favorite animal. She has traveled to California, and hopes to someday see Pennsylvania. Her highest priorities in life are currently her family, school and being happy along the way.

Biography of Chris Griffith
By: Paulina Potapova

Chris was born in a town called Indiana, (Pennsylvania). He used to live in the country with his family as he milked cows for a living. Living in a town of less than 2000 people he decided to move to a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and now resides in a suburb with a simple two story house. Chris likes to spend his weekends either traveling home , visit his girlfriends house or hanging out with friends and playing video games. Chris likes to celebrate his birthday, he usually organizes a small ‘’get together’’ of close friends and will go out to eat with his family but sometimes hi will throw a party with a lot of people at his house just for fun. Chris has never been married but he just entered in a serious relationship. His priorities towards relationships are making the other person happy, having trust in each other, and making everything mutually beneficial. Chris’s favorite restaurant is Ruby Tuesday, but he can enjoy most types of food except seafood and anything too Asian or Indian. For the next Presidential Election Chris is not sure who he will be voting because a republican candidate hasn’t stepped forward yet, but he probably would not vote on Obama, because Chris does not believe in Obamas strategies and either a lot of his plans coming through even with a democratic super majority. Chris loves to talk in general, but the topics are mainly about school, computers or future jobs. Regarding the view about gay people, he will never try to force to be something they don’t want to be, however he strictly believe in heterosexuality and monogamy. Doing something new everyday that’s whats Chris would like to see the daily experience of life. Some days to wake up and work outside in the sun, others to stay inside and waste the day with a friend or even by himself.

Biography of Matthew Schwabenbauer

Matthew Schwabenbauer was born in Oil City, PA on January 26, 1988. After graduating from Oil City High School, he moved to Erie, PA to attend Penn State Behrend and majored in Journalism. This fall, he moved to State College, PA to attend Penn State main campus to major in Information Sciences and Technology. His favorite food is sushi but cheesey bread comes in at a close second. In his free time, Matt enjoys going to see live music or practicing with his band which is called We Are Forever. He doesn’t like very much besides music, but does like watching Penguins hockey from time to time. Matt rarely travels outside of Pennsylvania, but enjoys his frequent visits to Pittsburgh to watch music or see friends. Besides Pennsylvania, he has travelled to Ontario, Canada, San Francisco, California and Orlando, Florida. An interesting experience he had happened early in the semester. He was humming a song walking down a hallway and was stopped by another student. The student was a guitar player for a band and asked him to come try out for his band right then. The tryout went well and he is now their singer. Some fun facts he knows are: In February 1901, Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Atlanta, Georgia changed it’s name to The Coca-Cola Bottling Company, The Atlantic Giant Squid’s eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide, and In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds. 3 assumptions he used to have that were wiped clean are: bass players don’t get girls, college is fun, and he could never sing for a band. An upcoming event he has is a show he is playing with The Wonder Years on November 4th in Altoona, PA. His favorite things are: watching music, playing music, singing, downloading music, going to the movies and drinking beer.

Biography of of Tyron Hardie
By: Matthew Schwabenbauer

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was not able to directly contact him for an interview. However, I was able to gather a few details about him from our team PDT forum. Tyron is twenty years old and was born in South Africa. He currently resides in Barcelona. In his free time he enjoys playing sports and spending time with friends

Biography of Hector Pineiro
By:Albert Serino

I was not able to contact Hector directly due to circumstances beyond my control, but have managed to gather a few details about him.Hector is 22 years old. He is from Barcelona. In his spare time he likes to play sports and hang out with his friends.

Questions for Woody Adotevi
By: Jim Heuler

1. Do you have any siblings?
2. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
3. What is your area of study?
4. What other countries have you traveled to? What was your favorite place?
5. What is your favorite food?
6. What is your impression about Penn State and the United States so far?
7. Have you ever worked before? If so what jobs have you held?
8. What are your plans after college? Do you want to pursue a Masters degree?
9. What are some of your favorite American movies/books?
10. What do college students over there do on the weekends?

Questions for Chris Griffith
By: Paulina Potapova

Where were you born?
Describe your home or neighborhood?
What do you usually do on the weekends?
Do you celebrate your birthday? How?
Have you been married?
What Restaurants do you like to eat at ?
Who are you voting for in the next Presidential election and why?
What do you talk about?
Whats your thought on gay people?
What would your daily experience of life look like if you could choose it?
What are their priorities with regard to relationships?

Questions for Paulina Potapova
By: Chris Griffith

What is your favorite activity?
How do you typically spend your weekends?
What is your favorite holiday?
What do you want to do after college?
What is your fondest memory in the past year?
What are some places you have traveled?
Do you have any pets and what is your favorite anima?
What types of movies do you like to watch?
What are some assumptions you have on Penn State?
What do you consider your highest priorities in life?

Questions for Hector Pineiro
By:Albert Serino

What is your favorite activity to do outside of classes and the university?
What is favorite food dish?
What do you consider a fun weekend at school?
What are your assumptions on our school, country, state…?
Plans after college?
What kind of jobs have you had?
Where have you traveled?
Favorite place to visit?
What are your favorite movies?
Whats your best memory from school so far?
What type of music do you listen to?

Questions for Tyron
By: Matt Schwabenbauer and Tony Pry

1. What is your favorite activity to do outside of classes and the university?
2. What is favorite food?
3. What is a typical weekend for you/What do you do for fun outside of class?
4. Plans after college?
5. What kind of jobs have you had?
6. Where have you traveled?
7. Favorite place to visit?
8. Provide some of the recent books read, movies seen
9. Do you follow sports? And if so, which ones are your favorite?
10. What type of music do you listen to?