Czech Republic Two - Text
Subject is a 23 year old, high school graduate from Ta'bor. Besides English and Czech, he also speaks Russian, French, and German. A former smoker, he talks about the first time he smoked a cigarette.
Interviewed by Michael Bruckmueller. Edited by Paul Meier. Recorded 03/06/00. Running time 00:02:42. Text file written by Heather Jewell.
Transcripted of Unscripted Speech
I'd like to tell a story about my uh, first time uh, when I somked, because I don't smoke cigars anymore. But uh, uh, when I was uh younger, I uh, lived in a village, and uh, you know, there is a group of young boy uh, who supposed to be men, so uh, at about 11 or 12 age uh, we bought uh cigarettes and uh, went to our....uh, uh, how to say.....house uh, we, we had a house and there we started to smoke. But uh, were just--just smoking into a toilet, wasn't uh, so excit...ing, so we decided to climb uh, uh, onto trees, and there to smoke, but to prove (?) the tree was about the roof of our house, it means that everybody can uh, saw...saw us. And it mean that when I get back, home uh, my parents uh, waited for me, and *laughs* it didn't finish very well for me so this was my first trying of cigarettes.
Unscripted Speech Transcribed by Faith Harvey 15 March 2008