Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

A Reflection of the Past: Sonia Hiatt

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2008 interview by Vanessa Appleton
with Sonia Hiatt who tells about her journey from El Salvador

Sonia Hiatt

Table of Contents:
1. A Personal Introduction
2. Cultural and Political Life

3. Leaving Home

4. Learning English

5. Expectations of a New Home

6. Why California

7. What a Difference

8. Discrimination

9. Making Friends

10. David

 11. What is Life like Now?

Segment 1
A Personal Introduction (32 seconds)
Sonia talks about where she came from and

Tells us about her family

Sonia with her brother, Wilfredo, and father, Manuel in 1964

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Segment 2
Cultural and Political Life (10 minutes 5 seconds)
Sonia talks about life culturally and

Politically in El Salvador

Map of El Salvador

Flag and Coat of Arms for El Salvador

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Segment 3
Leaving Home (1 minute 30 seconds)
Sonia lets us know why she chose to leave

Home and come to the Unites States

Infant coffins from the massacre at San Francisco Angulo, Tecoluca, El Salvador 1981

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Segment 4
Learning English (41 seconds)
Sonia tells us about learning English