India Eight - Transcription
It’s in the south, and it’s a big city, um, it’s beautiful, and it has… we don’t have as many lakes as we have over here in Minneapolis, but we do have two which are pretty good and we have lots of parks and entertainment we have lots of theaters, movies, and…you…well, if you come over there you will have a lot of things to watch and…you…and there’s this big museum Salarjung museum. He was..he was kind of a nawob, a nawob is like a king, so, what he used to do is he used to collect all artifacts, historical stuff, and whatever he collected he, he displayed it, and now it’s in a museum called Salarjung museum. All kinds of rare stuff, and, completely rare, you can’t see anywhere in the world, all the stuff you can see over there. But at home we don’t speak much English, we only talk in our mother tongue which is Telugu. In school, English is our first language…you have to talk in English, you can’t talk in your mother tongue. So we do have lots of languages, like we have twenty-five states, so we can say twenty-five languages. It’s the…beautiful thing, people of different languages still able to co-exist on our bad differences, that’s the beautiful thing of my country I really love. Other than that, rest of them like…we can’t take guys already (unclear), it’s like little bit conventional, I mean, kinds of weighty (unclear)over there. All my family is over there, no one is over here, just my uncle that’s it. And I was the first girl to come here, I’m the first one. I’m breaking all the traditions. They are really freaking out right now over there *laughs*.
Unscripted Speech Transcribed by Faith Harvey 24 February 2008