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

 Marlene Velasco

Click here to read to read the research essay, “The Working Nurse”, by Doyle Velasco

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an October 2005 interview by Doyle Velasco with Marlene Velasco,
who was a nurse in the Philippines, and when she got to America, she struggled to find a job, but eventually got her American life together.

Software: Microsoft Office

A Young Nurse in the Philippines 

Table of Contents:

1. Born in the Philippines
2. Education, Arriving to the U.S., and Looking for a Job

3. Living in America

4. Paying for College and Her Parents

5. Kidney Disease

6. Advice for the Youth and What She Owns

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment 1
Born in the Philippines
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1 min. 6 sec., 195 KB)

Born in the Philippines and talking about the languages she knows.
 

 

Software: Microsoft Office

Her Home, The Philippines

 

 

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Segment 2
Education, Arriving to the U.S., and Looking for a Job
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3 min. 12 sec., 562 KB)
Marlene’s educational background, becoming a nurse, and talking about how she struggled to find a job.

 

 

Software: Microsoft Office

Working Hard on a Leg

 

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Segment 3
Living in America
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37 sec., 109 KB)
Marlene talks about how it is different living in the Untied States and in the Philippines.

 

 

Living in Two Different Worlds

 

 
    

 

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Segment 4
Paying for College and Her Parents
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3 min. 40 sec., 646 KB)
Marlene’s father pays for her college tuition while she is in the Philippines and he is in America.

 

 

 

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Segment 5
Kidney Disease
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3 min. 17 sec., 580 KB)
Marlene talks about her kidney problems and how hard it is to go to work five days a week, raise her three sons, and live with her kidney disease all at once.

 

 



 

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Segment 6
Advice for the Youth and What She Owns
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1 min. 15 sec., 222 KB)
Marlene gives advice to young Filipino Americans trying to figure out what they want to do with their future and says that she works hard for her BMW.

 

Work Hard and You Can Also Own a BMW

 

 

 

 

 

 

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last revised: 12-21-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the coordinator, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.net