Missouri Five - Text
Caucasian female, 15 years old. Born in St. Louis, MO, and raised in St. Peters, MO. Subject recites Comma Gets a Cure, then discusses an early childhood memory, and completes interview with a description of her day. Interviewed and Edited by Shawn M. Muller on 9-22-00. Recording length is 00:03:47.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Earliest childhood memory? (Uh) Well, I remember one time, when I was two. I was in, like, my dad’s big, like, van, and (uh) I was pretending I was driving to Florida, an’ I pulled the van into drive, and it started rolling down the driveway, and it rolled across the street, into, like, the other people’s yard across the street, an’ it hit a tree, an’ then it stopped.
Well, one time, when I was, like, eight, I was doing this (um) this thing, with Young People’s Theatre. It was, like, a Halloween show, an’ I, like, stepped u-- up to the microphone to sing a solo, and I fell off the stage.
(Um) I did, like, back, like, in elementary school, which I was, like, with the St. Peter’s Cultural Art Center for a while, but, like-- I dunno. I started drama back up when I was in high school, so… (Um) We did (uh) [in undertone] gosh, how do you say it?-- Les Miserables, or whatever, (um) in Young People’s Theatre, an’ that was really fun, but… it was kinda sad.
Okay, well, I woke up and I got dressed an’ everything, and then I went over to my friend Nicky’s house, and my friend Ally came over and picked us up, took us to school. And then, first hour was world history, and I got tardy, and I was really upset, because I shouldn’t have been tardy anyways. And then, second hour was geometry, and (um) I didn’t have my homework in there, so I got in trouble. And then, third hour was choir, an’ we just sang a lot, an’ then fourth hour… [undertone] What’d I have fourth hour? Let me think for a second. Oh yeah. Okay, we were in the computer lab for English, typing papers. And then… we came in here.