Skyline College/North San
Mateo County Oral History Archives, SkylineCollege Library
Student project for LSCI 110– Digital
Oral Research Project, Skyline College
The
Life of Marichu Menrige
Click here to read to
read the research essay, “Life’s Challenges”, by Christy Revita
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2007
interview by Christy Revita
with Marichu Menrige,
who is my soon to be mother-in-law.
Marichu
Menrige
Table
of Contents:
1. Growing Up In the Philippines
2. Her Education in the Philippines
5. Parents Finding Out About Her Husband
10. Positive and Negative Experiences
11. Parents Consent To Finally Marry Her
Husband
12. Differences between America and the
Philippines
13. Returning Home and how she felt about the
Philippines
Segment 1
Growing Up
Her life growing up in the
Segment 2
Education
Her days going to a public school, and how the school system ranked the kids.
Segment 3
Parents Going To America
Parents going to
Parents and siblings
Segment 4
Meeting Her Husband
Her husband lived practically next door to her in Bayangbang Pangasinan where
they met.
Segment 5
Parents Finding Out About
Her Dating
When her Parents found out
about her and her husband dating they did not approve, and made them separate.
Her parents Flora Batoon and Ferdinand Batoon
Segment 6
Arriving in America
She arrived in
Her children Joseph Menrige and Joyce Menrige getting
ready to come to America
Segment 7
Having Kids
How it was like for her having
kids in the
Her youngest son Jason Menrige and herself Marichu
Menrige
Segment 8
First Job
The struggles she went through with juggling her life as a single mom, taking
and picking her kids up from school, taking care of her new born baby, and
working
Segment 9
Other Jobs
Her experiences with other jobs in the
past.
Positive and Negative Experiences
She had a hard time being away from her family in the
Her Family
Segment
11
Parents Consent for her to marry her Husband
She was finally able to go back to the
Philippines In March 1994 because her parents finally gave her their blessings
to marry her husband (April 15, 1994) and did not come back to
Joseph Menrige and Marichu
Menrige on their wedding day
Differences
between America and the Philippines
Differentiating
the
Returning to the Philippines and how she felt about
it
She returns
back to the
Her advice
to me, Joyce Menrige, Joseph Menrige, and Jason Menrige (Her Kids) for future
life experiences for their kids.
Her grandson Jarel Nicholas
Revita Menrige
Image
sources:
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Title:
Airlines.net- http://www.flying-school.com/images/world/UnitedAirlines.jpg
Title:
gung-fu- http://www.gungfu.com/pics_general/pics_apparel/apparel_a_patches_national_flag_usa_philippine.jpg
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