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Violeta Catalina Ordoveza Reyes
Click here to read the research essay, “A Life of Soda and Candy
Bars”, by Mikaela Reyes
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by Mikaela Reyes with Violeta Catalina Ordoveza Reyes,
who was 16 years old when she came
to the United States from the Philippines.
Violeta as a teenager in the Philippines
Table of Contents:
1. Family Background
2. Leaving the Philippines
3. Settling in the
United States
5. Being Filipino in
the United States
6. Looking Back
Segment 1
Family Background (5:35)
Discussing Violeta’s
family background and what life was like for them in the Philippines.
Violeta (to the left) and her two older siblings
Segment 2
Leaving the Philippines (1:42)
Reason for leaving the Philippines and what was
hard to leave behind
Violeta with some friends shortly before leaving for the
United States
Segment 3
Settling in the United States (5:49)
Violeta describing her schooling in the United States
as new immigrant and what she missed most about the Philippines.
Violeta (On the left) with her two sisters, wearing their
school uniforms back in the Philippines
Segment 4
Life in the United States (1:34)
Segment 5
Being Filipino in the United States
(1:34)
Describing her life in the United States and
how she never experienced discrimination for being Filipino due to her
appearance
Violeta in her Westmoor high
school year book class of 1981
Segment 6
Looking Back (0:19)
What would you have done differently?
Recent picture of Violeta with one of her sisters that
migrated with her to the United States
last
revised: 5-26-11
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