Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student
project for LSCI 110 - Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College
Yolanda Ancheta
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2012
interview by Mia Ancheta with Yolanda Ancheta who grew up in the
Philippines. Yolanda has been living in the United States now for 21 years and
wouldn’t change a thing about it. In this interview, my mother and I, talked
about how life is being a Filipino American.
Yolanda Ancheta 2012
Table
of Contents:
1. Early Childhood in the Philippines
2. Leaving
the Philippines
3. Settling in the United States
4. Living
in the United States
5. Remembering life back home in the Philippines
Segment 1
Early
Childhood in the Philippines
(2:06)
We talked about her childhood in the Philippines and the reason
for leaving to the United States.
receiving 1st
honors
Segment
2
Leaving
the Philippines (2:41)
We talked about why and how it was to leave her homeland.
[
graduating
from college
Segment
3
Settling
in the United States (6:46)
We talked about how her new life was in California, San Francisco.
Segment
4
Living
in the United States (6:09)
We talked about how she adapted to the American life-style and how
she likes it in the United States.
[
on the
airplane going to Disneyland
Segment
5
Remembering life back home in
the Philippines (3:06)
We talked about how she missed her 1st “home” and what
she misses most.
Segment
6
America
is Home (1:54)
We talked
about where she is now at the stage of her life and visits back to the
Philippines.
last revised: 5-23-12
by Eric Brenner, Skyline
College, San Bruno, CA
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