Fiji Six - Text
The subject is a Fijian female. Her birth date is unknown. Her level of education is nonexistent or unknown.
She was born on in Suva, Fiji, where she lived until the age of 6. She then lived in Nadi until age 16, and has since lived in Namaqumaqua.
Note: does not read Comma Gets a Cure
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I’m married, and have one son. And he’s, uh, three years old. Namaqumaqua village belongs to, uh, the Suva province. And there’s a…uh, I don’t…uh…ten or eleven villages in this province. Uh, Suva is, uh, an island. So people, when they go there, they just, uh wait when it’s, uh, low tide. If not—if they have a boat—they can travel back when it’s high tide. This province, we just have, well one, uh, one…only one school on this province. So all the kids from all the province, they go to that school. But people from the island, they have a, uh, like only a primary school in there. But secondary here. secondary school—we have secondary, primary, and kindergarten in…in the village. We have uh, um, kindergarten, where the kids go to school. Kids in the village, yeah?
RECORDED BY DAVID NEVELL 6/29/08. NOTES AND UNSCRIPTED TRANSCRIPTION BY JOE CALARCO.