Spain Five - Transcription
I am from a village not from a town, town in Spain where Catalan and Spain are spoken, and I am a professor at the university, which is the only university that is in that town. I teach the children, I teach the students who like to be, who would like to be teachers at primary schools. I usually teach only two or three days a week and the rest of the days I am at home preparing classes. (Um) When I go out, I like to go to pubs with my friends and (um) when, now I’m in the United States visiting some friends here and when I will come back home, we are going to have a party, similar to Halloween but not exactly Halloween. We are going to go all together to a (um) place where we are going to spend the night and then have some drinks and some things to eat as well. So, food is really unusual, (um) in fact, I have just been in the, in a supermarket here and the things you can find in the supermarkets, in American supermarkets are very different from the food I can find I could find in L..? (Um) you have a lot of, a lot more variety of some things for example soft drinks, we do not have this different colors you have this blueberry soda, this don’t know many, many more flavors, we just have some coke and lemonade and things like that…
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY KARINA LEMMER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR SOUTH AFRICA, May 6, 2008