Peru Five - Text
Age: 48 DOB: 3-29-59 Ethnicity: Peruvian, Hispanic Occupation: TV Casting Education Level: University graduate
Born and raised in Lima, Peru. Left to live in California, United States at the age of 23. She began learning English at the age of 7 from the I.C.P.N.A. Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americana which would translate to the Peruvian North American Cultural Institute.
SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY
Yidana Kane on November 11, 2008
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in Peru in Lima, Peru the capital. And I studied my elementary and high school studies in Rosa de Santa Maria. I’m catholic and my family is catholic too. My father and mother are from Peru. I traveled to the United States when I was 23 years old, visiting my father, and I like the United States and I continue living. I was working as a sales person uh because I like to work with a lot of people. I studied sociology in Lima, Peru at the university and I studied English and French since I was 7 years old. That’s why I like it, I think, so much, living in the United States. I like all the life uh the life style of this country. I was married after two years. I was married when I was twenty five years old with a business administrator man and I had two children, one girl and one boy. Now they are, the girl 21 years old and the boy 16 years old. She’s studying theatre at the Cal State Fullerton. She’s in the third year of this career and she likes a lot and I love she likes a lot. Because she has talent, a lot of talent, and my boy she’s in the second year of high school, in the 10th grade in a catholic high school too because I love to have my children in catholic schools. And I’m very happy. I’m working now in the media, in TV shows, I’m a specialist in casting and I continue working with a lot of people. I like to work with people I like to talk with people and it’s very interesting job for me. Thank you.