Sinaloa One - Text
The Subject is 39 years old. He works as a mechanic in the shop he owns. The highest form of education he has experienced is two years at a Mexican University. He was born and raised in Sinaloa, Mexico. He left Sinaloa at the age of 21 with his wife. His first introduction to English was at an Adult school in Los Angeles. He almost obtained his GED, but before he did he moved to Victorville where he has lived for the past seventeen years.
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Sinaloa is a place where I was born it’s pretty much …uh…weather like Texas it gets hot it gets humid. Summers are like a hundred degrees easily with humidity of ninety-five constantly it’s a yeah well I did it for many years but and we didn’t have air conditioning when I was a kid; they do now. so it’s funny, I go back now and the people, because now they have air conditioning for years, but I never knew Sinaloa with air conditioning. So I know, for me going back, it’s like I’m going back to the hot weather, the humidity; I prepare myself for it, you know, and then I get there and everybody is all “Oh no it’s too hot, you know, we got to get in the air conditioning,” and I’m all “No you guys are crazy,” I want the heat I want the humidity I want to feel it, so I just stay wet all the time either sweating or just wet yourself.
Recorded November 9, 2007 by John Klopping.
Edited January 5, 2008, by Paul Meier