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Argentina Five - Text

The subject is an 18 year-old Argentinean female.  She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, and holds a Diploma from a local high school.  She was recorded on holiday in New Zealand.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

Eh, I just finished school, so I felt like doing something different before starting college.  So, I’m going to start design next year and I took a year off and travel and know different people.  Different culture.  I’m graphic design, I’m, I’m… I’m not sure, but I’m, I probably want to do that.  In Argentina its going, eh, now a days, its going a lot of career.  Its going a lot, a lot of people studying, a lo- as well as cinema, theatre.  A lot of people is doing that.  I actually don’t, don- I’m not going to study cinema, but I like Wes Anderson.  Yeah, his films are very, you have to be more like a kind of a cynic’s person.  
His movie, he’s like, funny, but his way, he, I, I love him.  I actually never been here.  I had to the opportunity to travel a lot with my family in the past year.  So, I, I knew what it was to travel.  But just to study in my first job.  I, my first time living alone, in another country.  I don’t know.  I, I knew a lot of people that had, that, had this before.  I don’t how it’s said.  And they told me it was like very easy.  You get a job and you pay your rent weekly, and you can, I don’t know.

Recorded by David Nevell, 2007.  Running time: 00:03:01

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