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

WHERE IS HOME FOR YOU?
ARVIN SORIANO

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by Ethel Joy Cereceres with Arvin Soriano, who moved to the Philippines when he was really young, and considers the US his home because he had lived and learned all that he knows about life in the US.

 

Arvin Soriano

 

1.  Introduction

Stating his name and where it all began, in the Philippines.


               2. Disneyland

Reasons of why he wanted to go to the states

 

3.  Expectations
Arvin explains what he expect upon arriving in the US

 

4.  Families
Explains who he left in the Philippines and who he knew upon arriving to the US

                                      

 5. SCHOOL

What did it feel like going to school for the first time, in the Philippines?


6. J O B

First job and jobs after high school.  Favoritism?

 

7. Regrets?


  What were his regrets?


8. U.S.

What are the negatives and positives coming to the US? 


9. Wrapping it up!

Arvin talks about going back to Philippines or not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daly City, CA

 

 

Image sources:


Title: http://kevingong.com/Hiking/MountDavidson.html

Title: http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/fasa/eboard.htm

 

 

 

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last revised: 5-23-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes.  North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library.
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