Italy Three - Text
Female, born 1965 and raised in Venice, Italy. Educated Trieste, Munich, London, and Lawrence, Kansas. Recorded there by Paul Meier in 1999. Subject travels extensively and has fluent idiomatic English with a slight Italian accent. Her English is a mix of British and American. 2:33secs.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Ah, ok. I was born in Venice, Italy. And I was raised around Venice, in a small town, when my family moved out of Venice because of the tourists. Ah, and, ah, I lived there most of my life. My family still live there. Um, I studied at the University of Trieste, which is about 100 miles from where I live in Venice and, um, I graduated in ’93 in, um, foreign language and American studies. Then I got a scholarship, I came to Lawrence, um, and I started in my American studies degree, I finished my American studies degree and now I’m about to finish my journalism degree. Um, I lived in England for over a year, in London. And, ah, I just was there, I liked it there, so I took a year off of school. Um, and then I lived in Germany too ’cause I needed to learn German, ’cause it was one of my majors and I’d never studied German before in my life, so I say “ Ok, maybe I better go there”—’cause it’s very close to where I live. It’s about 6 hour drive, so it was almost as being home. Ah, then I spent some other time in Germany because of some research I was doing for my thesis. What else? (sigh) I travel around all Europe and Central America. Traveling is my, one of my hobbies. I, I remembered running on a beach and stumbling into somebody and I started crying but suddenly, ah, I look up and it was my father. And I don’t know if just, was just running away…was just trying to save be because I did…I used to go on, on, you know, in the water and he was afraid. But that…actually I think that’s my earliest one. I think I was like…I was 2 or 3. I don’t know how old I was.