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

Avelino Guarin

Click here to read the research essay, “Nostalgia for the Future”, by Annabelle Rapues

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by Annabelle Rapues with Avelino Guarin, an eighty-three

year old Filipino Immigrant currently residing on the island of Oahu.

Avelino Guarin at his home in Makakilo, Hawaii

Table of Contents:
1. Growing Up In The Philippines
2. Marcos Regime

3. Immigrating To The United States

4. Filipino Americans Versus Filipino Immigrants

5. Homesickness

Segment 1
Growing Up In The Philippines (3:02)

Avelino talks about his family, his friends, and his life back in the Philippines.

Avelino reading the newspaper

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Segment 2
Marcos Regime (2:23)
Avelino talks about life during Marcos’ Regime.

Avelino posing for the camera

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Segment 3
Immigrating To The United States (7:15)
Avelino talks about the struggles he encountered immigrating to the United States.

Avelino with his wife Odencia

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Segment 4
Filipino Americans Versus Filipino Immigrants (4:48)
Avelino talks about the differences between Filipinos who were born in America and those who immigrated to America.

Avelino with his family

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Segment 5
Homesickness (6:02)
Avelino talks about how sometimes he misses life back home.

Avelino with his grandchildren and great grandchildren

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last revised: 5-25-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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