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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.
A Young Nurse in the
Table of Contents:
1. Born in the Philippines
2. Education, Arriving to the U.S., and
Looking for a Job
4. Paying for College
and Her Parents
6. Advice for the
Youth and What She Owns
Segment
1
Born in the Philippines
(1 min. 6 sec., 195 KB)
Born in
the
Segment 2
Education, Arriving to the U.S., and
Looking for a Job (3 min. 12 sec., 562 KB)
Marlene’s educational background, becoming a
nurse, and talking about how she struggled to find a job.
Working Hard on a Leg
Segment 3
Living in America (37 sec., 109 KB)
Marlene talks about how it is different living
in the Untied States and in the
Living in Two Different Worlds
Segment 4
Paying for College and Her Parents
(3 min. 40 sec., 646 KB)
Marlene’s father pays for her college tuition
while she is in the
Segment 5
Kidney Disease (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.
Segment 6
Advice for the Youth and What She
Owns (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
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