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

Dyna Dominguez

Click here to read the research essay, “Essay Title”, by Jon-Jon Dominguez

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2009 interview by Jon-Jon Dominguez with Dyna Dominguez, who is my mother.

Table of Contents:
1. Family Background
2. School in the P.I.

3. Leaving the P.I.

4. Arriving in the U.S.

5. Friends in the U.S.

6. Less Freedom

7. Hardest thing about the U.S.

8. First Job

9. Looking Back

 10. Memories in the U.S.

Segment 1
Family Background (1:03)
My mom talks about growing up in the Philippines and her relationship with her family while growing up there.

Our family

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Segment 2
School in the Philippines (0:30)
My mom talks about school in the Philippines.

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Segment 3

Leaving the Philippines (1:54)
My mom talks about her feelings about leaving the Philippines.

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Segment 4
Arriving in the U.S. (0:53)
My mom talks about her first impressions about arriving in the U.S.

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Segment 5
Friends in the U.S. (0:56)
My mom talks about making friends in the U.S. and how it was different from the Philippines.

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Segment 6
Less Freedom (2:24)
My mom talks about her relationship with her brothers and how they had more freedom than her while growing up in the U.S.

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Segment 7
Hardest thing about living in the U.S. (0:29)
My mom talks about some of the hardest things about living in the U.S.

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Segment 8
First Job (1:15)
My mom talks about her first job and how she was the youngest and only Filipina working there.

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Segment 9
Looking Back (0:54)
My mom talks about some of the things about the Philippines and gives her opinion about whether she would move back or not.

Segment 10

Memories in the P.I. (1:26)

My mom talks about some of her most recent memories about the Philippines. 

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last revised: 5-27-09
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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