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

 One Decade

Click here to read to read the research essay, “One Decade”, by Ka Hou Man, Zak.

 

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2007 interview by Zak with Lea, who is my classmate in my architecture class 21, basic design.

 

Zak and Lea

 

I knew Lea from one of my architecture class in City College of San Francisco.
She is one of the best students in the studio and her works and ideas are very stand out.

 

 

1st project

 

 

Table of Contents:

1. Time and place of arriving to the United States
2. Beginning of new life

3. Assimilate into the new world

4. Wills of going back

5. Start of school as well as working part time

6. Difficulties overcame

7. Being a Filipino immigrant

8. Talking about her dream and goal

9. Religion

10. One decade

 

 

 

Segment 1
Time and place of arriving to the United States.  


The first image of United States brought to Lea and the difference between United State and Philippines. 

 

Assimilate

 

 

Segment 2
Beginning of new life
Home sick and the impacts brought to Lea under the new environment.

 

Homesick

 

 

Segment 3
Assimilate into the new world
Assimilate into the new environment by making new friends. Another way for looking at the world. 

 

Friends of Lea

 

 

Segment 4
Wills of going back
Once she assimilated into the new environment she did not want to go back anymore. She believe she can make her dreams come true in the United States, rather than in Philippines.  

Study model

 

 

Segment 5
Start of school as well as working part time
In order to earn a living, she had to work part time as well as attending college to achieve an AA degree. For more, she wanted to be an architect, to build something that represents her, as well as her country.

 

1st project

 

 

 

Segment 6
Difficulties overcame
Difficulties that Lea overcame after coming to the United States. A tough pass made her became stronger toward her dream.

 

I am not alone

 

 

 

 

Segment 7
Being a Filipino immigrant
Being a Filipino immigrant, she found there is no difficulties to be part of other ethnic groups. 

Social

 

 

 

 

Segment 8
Talking about her dream and goal
Her dream is to be a successful architect and she decided this goal by herself but not her parents. She will be transferring to a 4-years university next year and her dream school is University of California Berkeley.

 

 

Way to my dream

 

 

 

 

Segment 9
Religion
She is still practicing her religious ceremony and she did not change her religion before or after coming to the United States.

 

Religion

 

 

 

Segment 10
One decade
Ten years of experience made her become stronger, she is more mature and more responsibility.  She felt no regrets for these ten years of new life in the United States.

 

My treasure

 

My best friend

 

 

 

Image sources:


Title: URL http://www.neverhappened.org/photos/uncategorized/dscn4493.JPG

Title: URL http://homepages.udayton.edu/~martinjg/Religion.jpg

Title: URL http://www.annekaringlass.com/01049-Homesick.jpg

 

 

 

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last revised: 5-10-07
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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