Puerto Rico 2

Listen to Puerto Rico 2, a 57-year-old woman from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 57

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/04/1954

PLACE OF BIRTH: Havana, Cuba (but raised mostly in San Juan, Puerto Rico)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Cuban (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: vice president of finance

EDUCATION: master’s degree

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

The subject was born and raised until age 9 in Havana, Cuba. She lived for one year in New York City, then moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she was living at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/01/2011

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

And I remember before we left Cuba that, um, Tia Fredes and Tio Pancho took us to see some parts of the island, and I remember, um, seeing this, um, place that was built, actually by Castro, and they were tree houses; it was this, um, valley where there were some trees that they have put tree houses there for recreational purposes.  And they were looked really cool.  When we got here, the place where we lived, which was like, uh, this small apartment that was, uh, in this big house; here in Puerto Rico it was common that if you had a big house with a garage, you would make like an apartment in the garage and you would rent it out, so this house had this small apartment that my father rented, and that’s where we first lived.  And it was right in the middle of Santurce, in um, very center of the city.  I studied here, uh, and my life was, was in, has been in Puerto Rico. I am a Cuban, and my family is Cuban and I, I, although I don’t know that much about, um, Cuba, or I would say even its history, I do like know general stuff, but nothing too deep, uh, but I do think that’s where I came from.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Matthew Evanoff (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/01/2011

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