Project of the Skyline College Library
/ North San Mateo County Oral History Archives,
Student project for LSCI 110
- DigitalOral Research Project, SkylineCollege
Joyce Perez: The
Struggle to Have a Better Life
By: Stacy Perez
Click
on the links
below to hear audio segments from an October 2004 interview
by Stacy Perez with Joyce
Perez, who immigrated to the
This is a picture of my mother, Joyce,
before
her graduation at
where her parents could not attend, yet she still had a smile on her face
Audio:
1. How It All Got Started
Joyce gives information about where she grew
up in the
2.Why I Moved To The United States.
Joyce talks about why her and her family moved to the
3. How
It Was Like To Live In The U.S.
The
4. Adjusting
To The New Place: The U.S.
Likewise, in order to feel comfortable
living in the
and here Joyce explains to me what she went thru.
5. The
Struggles That Came With Moving
Not only were there adjustments but
she had to struggle a little in order to survive.
6. The
Struggle Finally Pays Off
Trying to survive in the U.S. was
hard, so Joyce worked a job for a long time…
Until she realized she was not getting paid what she was worth… So she started
a business….
Joyce
and one of her thirteen children at her day care (her business).
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