Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline
College Library
Student project for LSCI 110
- Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College
Nina Macaraeg
Click here to read the research essay,
Homesickness, by Manuel Macaraeg
Click on the
links below to hear audio
segments from an April 2012 interview by Manuel
Macaraeg with Nina Macaraeg,
who moved here to the United States from the Philippines. How it was to live in
America and how it felt to leave her homeland.
Table of Contents:
1. Growing Up In The Philippines
2. Leaving the Philippines
3. Arriving Upon the United States
4. Arriving Upon the United States (cont.)
5. Arriving Upon the United States (cont.)
6. Differences between two Filipino cultures
7. Adaptation
8. Reason for living in the U.S.
9. Looking back
10. Reflection
Segment 1
Growing Up In The Philppines (0:44)
Asking my mother who it was living in the
Philippines
Segment 2
Leaving the Philppines (0:15)
Asking my mom her experience leaving the Philippines
Segment 3
Arriving Upon the United States (0:20)
Asking my mom her experience coming to America
Segment 4
Arrivng Upon the United States (cont.) (0:11)
Asking her the difference between Filipinos and
Filipino Americans
Segment 5
Arriving Upon the United States (cont.) (0:17)
Talks about how the people were in America
Segment 6
Difference between two Filipino cultures (1:23)
Talks about the difference between Filipinos
and Filipino Americans
Segment 7
Adaptation (0:49)
Talks about how she adapted to the American
lifestyle
Segment 8
Reason for living in the U.S. (1:13)
Her reasoning for living in the U.S.
Segment 9
Looking Back (1:52)
Talks about what she misses back home
Segment 10
Reflection (1:00)
Talks about if she would go back to the
Philippines
last revised:
5-18-12
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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