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

 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

4. Life 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

 

 

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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

 


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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

 


    

 

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Segment 4
Life in the United States
(1:34)


 

 



 

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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

 

 



 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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last revised: 5-26-11
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.
All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the coordinator, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.edu