Missouri 5

Listen to Missouri 5, a 15-year-old girl from St. Peters, near St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 15

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1985

PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Louis, Missouri

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in St. Peters, Missouri, as was subject Missouri 4.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Shawn M. Muller

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/09/2000

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Earliest childhood memory?  Uh, well, I remember one time, when I was 2.  I was in, like, my dad’s big, like, van, and, uh, I was pretending I was driving to Florida, an’ I pulled the van into drive, and it started rolling down the driveway, and it rolled across the street, into, like, the other people’s yard across the street, an’ it hit a tree, an’ then it stopped.  Well, one time, when I was, like, 8, I was doing this, um, this thing, with Young People’s Theatre.  It was, like, a Halloween show, an’ I, like, stepped u– up to the microphone to sing a solo, and I fell off the stage. Uh, I did, like, back, like, in elementary school, which I was, like, with the St. Peter’s Cultural Art Center for a while, but, like, I dunno.  I started drama back up when I was in high school, so, um, we did, uh [in undertone] gosh, how do you say it? “Les Miserables,” or whatever, um, in Young People’s Theatre, an’ that was really fun, but it was kinda sad. OK, well, I woke up and I got dressed an’ everything, and then I went over to my friend Nicky’s house, and my friend Ally came over and picked us up, took us to school.  And then, first hour was world history, and I got tardy, and I was really upset, because I shouldn’t have been tardy anyways.  And then, second hour was geometry, and, um, I didn’t have my homework in there, so I got in trouble.  And then, third hour was choir, an’ we just sang a lot, an’ then fourth hour … [undertone] What’d I have fourth hour?  Let me think for a second.  Oh, yeah.  OK, we were in the computer lab for English, typing papers.  And then, we came in here.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/06/2008

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