Colombia Two - Text
Subject was born and raised in Bogotá, Columbia, and lived there until he was 19. He is a fourth year, undergraduate theatre student and has been living in Los Angeles California for the past four years.
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I am twenty-three and, ah, I lived in Bogota, Colombia until I was nineteen; I’m twenty-three right now and I study theatre. I grew up with my mom for the first half of my life and then we moved in with my dad. And growing up in Columbia was, its- ‘cause it’s just so different now that I’m here in L.A. I’ve been here for four years and it’s just a different planet, it, it started with, with the culture you know? People over there are just really loud, rambunctious, they don’t really care about- it’s not as politically correct you might say, as it is here. Um- also the food, uhhh fantastically great uhh just that my dad has a saying he says that, “All the food made in the United States is engineered so that it all tastes like plastic. I lived in Bogotá which uh, which comes from Bacata, which is, was the name of the tribe that was uh there. And then the Spanish came over and took it over, but they held the name so it changed from Bacata to Bogotá. And now, you know, it’s called Bo- Bogotá. Yeah.
Mmmmm, I can tell you about theatre there; I can tell you um- the biggest theatre festival in the world takes place in Bogotá actually, every two years. So what they do is they take troupes from all over the world, and they come and for two weeks they have daily shows, daily theatre shows, troupes from you know- the real deal- Russia, England- they have a guest country every time they have one of these. This time, it’s gonna be next year. And it’s, England is the host country. So they bring the Royal Shakespeare Company to Bogotá and everything- to do their shows over there. And not only that but you can get Africa and Asia and South America. I actually learned about this two weeks ago. Uh, my thing is movies mostly, but for acting - Theatre is you know, primordial for me, so....
Recorded by Eric Czuleger November 4, 2007
Running time: 04:22