South Africa Twenty-six - Text
This female speaker was born in 1967 and raised in Bloemfontein, Freestate, and is a housewife. She was recorded by Mark Ingram and his students in November 2005. Edited by Paul Meier on September 9, 2006. Running time 00:03:58.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
When (um)... ah... I arrived here in two thousand and two. But, um, Jim arrived a year before me. He had to come look for work and after three weeks or four weeks he got work and then he let me know that (um) I’d sell the house and our business and everything and then I thought I could just come over with a visitor’s visa (chuckle) to Canada, and (um) after a few times phoning the Canadian Consulate in South Africa, they keep asking why am I so urgently looking for (unclear) passport because I had it renewed, and I said I’m immigrating to Canada and they said (um) “Well, how are you getting into the country?” And I thought it was legal getting just with a visitor’s visa (chuckle) at the end I had to, they said ‘no way’ I had to apply for permanent residency. So it took eleven months to get in, and in that eleven months, I got in two weeks after eleven months, and I was living with a friend.
Anyway so I got here but this day it was (um) it was quite cold. It was like the coldest in ten… ten years.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH TERREL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, January 16, 2008. AMENDED BY MARK INGRAM, AUGUST 30, 2008