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Student project for LSCI 110
– Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College
“Experiencing
Life’s Obstacles: Araceli Orcena”
By: Valerie Orcena
Click here
to read to read the research essay, “Experiencing World War II”, by Valerie Orcena
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from a November 2005 interview by
Valerie
Orcena with her grandmother, Araceli
O. Orcena,
who came to the
Araceli enjoys going to parties.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Family Background
3. Growing up in the Philippines
4. Education
6. Moving to the United States
7. Struggles
Introduction (72 KB)
Araceli
was born in Lucban, Quezon in the
Araceli and her husband Dionisio in the
Segment 2
Family Background
(111 KB)
Araceli talks about her parents and what
they did for a living.
Segment 3
Growing up in the
Philippines (446
KB)
What life was like growing up as a young
girl. She also talks about her other siblings.
Araceli and her sister Tita at a family party.
Segment 4
Education (558 KB)
While growing up, she talks about the
schools that she went to. She also
talks about being a teacher in the
Segment 5
Life during WWII
(592 KB)
What life was like in the
Segment 6
Moving to the United States
(583 KB)
Filed an application and came to the
Segment 7
Struggles (94 KB)
Araceli didn’t have any struggles coming to
the
Araceli and her family in 2002 at a family reunion in
LA.
Segment 8
Staying in CA
(138 KB)
Araceli wants to stay here in CA because she
has no more property in the
Araceli and her youngest daughter Margie.
Segment 9
Filipino Organizations
(274 KB)
She talks about the different Filipino
organizations that she is in here in
Araceli and her granddaughter Valerie at her Filipino
organization function in 2002.
Segment 10
Plans for the Future (89 KB)
Araceli is enjoying life as a
senior citizen and plans to make her family happy and stable in their life.
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last revised: 12-21-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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