Geronima Lopez, Marcos Monterroza, Marga Biller, and Mia "M.R." Raquel

Recorded January 30, 2021 Archived January 30, 2021 45:07 minutes
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Description

Geronima Lopez (64) conversa con su hijo, Marcoz Monterroza (25), y sus amigas, Marga Biller (63) y Mia "M.R." Raquel (25), sobre su viaje de Guatemala a Estados Unidos.

[Geronima Lopez (64) talks with her son, Marcoz Monterroza (25), and her friends, Marga Biller (63) and Mia "M.R." Raquel (25), about her journey from Guatemala to the United States.]

Subject Log / Time Code

Marga dice que quería hablar con Chomita porque ella tiene una vida muy interesante.
Chomita habla de cómo llegó a Estados Unidos y dice que llegó en 1998 porque la vida en Guatemala era muy difícil.
Marga habla de Chomita y dice que tiene un gran corazón.
Marga le pregunta a Chomita cómo aprendió a cocinar. Chomita cuenta cómo aprendió a hacer tamales.
Chomita habla sobre recibir una identificación para comenzar a trabajar en Massachusetts. Marga menciona que Chomita siempre tuvo dos trabajos.
Marga comparte que estaba embarazada al mismo tiempo que Chomita. Marcos habla de caerse 2 gradas de la escalera cuando era niño.
Marga le pregunta a Chomita sobre su examen de ciudadanía.
Mia le pregunta a Chomita qué mensaje quiere dejar para sus nietos y la próxima generación de su familia. Chomita: "Todos somos iguales ... somos hijos de un Dios".
Marga le pregunta a Chomita por qué es tan generosa y amable.
Marcos y Marga hablan sobre la prueba COVID. Marcos: "We're almost at the finish line."

Participants

  • Geronima Lopez
  • Marcos Monterroza
  • Marga Biller
  • Mia "M.R." Raquel

Transcript

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00:05 When I start a new note in Iraq has been going to Cinco anos, o, s h o l e s, i l and 0 call me my mama, me and Marcus.

00:25 When I started and you been telling, you know, it's raining in Boston, Massachusetts, a story of Lando and Mia Mia near me for Marco's.

00:52 I'm riding over there. Marcos monterroza thing. Going to Cinco anos for yourself a little train time. Does Midway. Do you know story, Boston, Mia's mom? My mom and my relationship and I guess Spring Run too long, friends and tractor longtime friend, stereo angle, Santa Paws.

01:35 Oh, yeah.

01:48 Yes, through any photos. Amigo. De muchos anos.

02:11 When was the last movie brenes?

02:20 See you still doing that. I'm going up there. So now you see. I want to see a mere token.

03:20 And guess who got a co-op single Orchard, man was thinking, why don't you stay?

04:07 When is the nearest thousand News newspaper?

04:48 My son daughter on upwork.

05:07 Metal fence, a marionette.

05:24 Libra.

05:29 Closest Playa de frutas y verduras, para, comprar un Dia. A la vez Windermere College in Los Angeles.

06:12 Laura Porco, amerihome.

06:36 Email email a church choir. I think I'm not required but like a band so they would travel like through Mexico and like a Idaho Los Angeles. So it's like they were always. So that's why they would travel a lot 30.

07:22 Eating it at the end of Pueblo.

08:12 A Como es, el numero de social media. I like basically, like she did it and I have like not knowing any like an English like just Spanish, like I just think of it. Like damn how hard like, I mean. Now it's like you got somebody. They can't even tell you what. Someone's phone number is like, without looking at their phones. That's like, you're not going to tell me that. You said to get us at our house, a logo.

09:12 Ma.

10:12 I know she is looking like and like that's like with anyone like you in the stranger. He knows She'll always like every time she seems like a homeless guy. I should like to let me give them like a dollar or something. She's like, she's always trying to like, give her like give anything she could out into your point. Like she was the first one here and she's helped out like so many people that they're not even like family members. They just know her from like, you know, the same town and they're like, oh yummy lunch or meet at the best if we shall never like obviously, you know, it's a lot, you know what? She'll say, you know, I can, but she'll always try to help with at least something that's like, yes she is.

11:08 What was that? Like, Marco's para. TI Mi mom haciendo like to think that if you going to go out your whole life, you know, always generally given like a way and he was like anything that you might I'm not rich or anything. But like, even if I have something to offer to a friend or even family, you know, it's something to it's a good trait to have in you cuz there's a lot of people that are, like, they would never do that. Like, there's super stingy in, like, he has like, no, but I feel like they never do good opposed to like, if you always giving God, always blesses you in a way, you know, if you was held in, like, you know, my mom, she's like 64, and she still going, like, with the whole pandemic going on. She still working, you know, when she needs doing.

12:01 Anna. I give it to her. So for real, I really do. I mean my loose. So they want. So like I like going to go tomorrow a little better and I'll tell you guys why so once in my life, I think of my stream was. Yeah, mostly without being powerless, Mi Chiquito. You ain't going to see do. Yo Eva like so little is Progressive your message.

13:01 San Patricio Saint who are not be being her little kid Siempre.

13:18 Yeah, I can do it but it seems like all known my whole life. You know, it's like that's why I have to live with what I thought. Like Mom, you know, I can do it. So memorable State Mascoma Lake like a, like a Subway, Philly, Grosso. No, no coco. No scenario English about everyone lives so far away. Like I literally have like, no neighbors with a whole bunch of like Glenn. And all I do is literally, like, lay down the hammock, like, eat some food in like watch Spanish, like cartoons, like, the best thing, but the experience and more recently, when I was over Twenty-One and very humbling.

14:18 Till I see that, you know, as a little kid I would go and I would be like not think of me like the outside, you know, what's going on, but you see so many cute kids like younger than me, working like hustling for like every dollar in. Like every time I go at Super humbling, you know, that's like the best and look at it.

14:38 Thank you for sharing that happened. And I'm on Yanez, Tradition da Alabama area like early, like crack of dawn, like, 6:37 in the morning. He'll be all right. It does to me that you guys are like a hoe. Like, I could do not like everybody thought I was going to think about your meter like in her name? Is her only my twitch out. Why don't you show me time? Like, I guess her grandparents gave her that nickname or something. Like what? Gesinee fika to meet. I don't like, how do you get night? Like you thought from hitting him? I don't know, you know.

15:38 Jamaica has like the I like our whole family lives. Like feels like my Aunt house, my uncle's house mother. Hunts house in like, you know, we're all together and then there's a whole bunch of like neighborhood, the kids and every time like my mom shows up, that was like the out. They all everybody called her yet, like no relations her, but I guess out of respect and like, you know, they hear my little cousins like all her TSA, like, you're not want her to be my own to you.

16:25 I'm going to help you stay.

16:34 A lot more than what you sent me. A message that he must tamales here, No, no, no, not going to stay lost on Molly.

17:45 It's on Daly City, CA.

18:27 Wait on the Aloha, Alabama, at Birmingham theater Sioux. Casino Del, Sol.

18:50 Cuomo's of weather Los Angeles.

19:12 What are you? I miss you also send me go.

19:39 Give me what I need for Cobblestone Hotel.

20:06 I used to go. So I think back then like they are they you couldn't leave the plane. So it's like if that was just stop you would get off and then like so that's her story where she's like they had a layover somewhere and she stayed on the plane and then out of all play Chelsea away from a little city. You like Guatemala. Chelsea's where?

20:36 Amanda.

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20:47 Is it a supreme?

20:53 Make a note that I have a heart menu.

21:16 Is this is how you do. The Boston Reaper, chaos, colonoscopy.

21:43 Because they love my mom.

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22:13 H o m e vs the monorail.

22:48 Yoyoka.

22:54 Your unit. Is he? Okay, now?

23:35 Rico.

24:03 No, you stay in a tent.

24:10 Yes, or no?

25:12 Apartamento, de they just hanging out and they left the front door open, and I felt like who played the stairs, but I'm fine.

25:46 She was cooking and like I was just with my little radio, adjusting to being a little kid and then she heard like the, like, the the rolling and then she found me like downstairs, like she's like ours at a heart attack. She was like, honey.

26:17 And you don't see me, Marcus Aurelius.

26:55 Well, you have her. But I guess you just have a lot going on.

27:14 Pakistan team as a show, Amanda.

27:19 Is this? How can the Chelsea produced? American? Tell us your story? Are you free up with Karina?

27:55 You Got Me by you by my side, when will your which email you one thing? You're right? I don't know your car to Lena.

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28:49 Sears.com.

29:00 I don't need some help. Come with a cake.

29:28 Jose me recuerda como esta usted.

29:33 But I assume examine like, like, I would like, make sticky like a little postcard for her a call. No chair. Like the asean has going to single parent, assoc like, memorize all 100 questions like my mom's not down, but I just hate that like, she always is like oh, you know, but that is I like she gives up like but I'm like, yeah, you can like you can do it like you. Ok. Google. Lee want to do something you. Can you just you can do anything you want. Like not seeing any person. They just didn't want to do it. So God, I am up and did I learn English? And I was a good good. Give me a message or something like when they're being opened it up.

30:30 And yesterday, so, maybe he thought. And I'm like, no. See you when I try to eat that. Like she said, I said, behold, you know what I mean? You keep that little battery inside. You sounds like Melanie.

31:00 And if you feeling froggy, como esta, espanol Espanol.

31:49 You going to let me go?

31:54 Music by r.e.m.

32:05 Almost fun.

32:37 General Mattis.

33:27 El miercoles De Mi Amor.

33:31 Mi amor.

34:03 The most aluminium.

34:15 How did it is?

34:22 Call Daniel.

34:37 Show me Taekwondo.

34:48 Los mensajes de la vida.

34:58 Play. Look At Me Now.

35:02 Momentos importantes en la Vida para la Proxima.

35:25 Play No musket. Nadia.

35:57 When I look at my school of Amelia.

36:03 It's a sample of a song.

36:20 And I'm, yes, you do.

36:40 I love me. Show me. Picture me.

37:34 El socio, Tres cosas Que quieres.

37:46 Santana Santos, Academy Namaz.

37:56 Did you ask?

37:59 Eunice, is there anything that you

38:11 At the question arose.

38:55 AR.

38:59 Yeah, I know.

39:11 I love you.

39:17 Cynthia.

39:55 The information telephone or email.

40:14 I enjoy, I see.

40:42 11.

40:58 Play looking like not so much yesterday.

41:06 Will be accurate in there. Like, you know, like when you need her and I want her to like me.

41:14 Let me remind me to get a mucho. Pero con Su nietos like a host, the Miss Romano's, like she's like goes crazy for it. Like some, more. Like she likes me whole night and Mia has experienced a guy. Like, she's like he was above and beyond for the grandkid that I like. I want my kids to experience a d k. You know, they are men. So y'all mucho cuando esta. Cocinando me gusta Como ver your kid up and then instead, you know, you know, cacia Cortez like not a chef's digital como hacer arroz, you know.

42:01 I can't really do it. But I know they have like the little closing please. That you can send me a message.

42:35 Jamaica.

42:43 Where do I purchase a show? Cooking show. Can do you like 3 times a week perm?

43:19 So that the city of Boston by Boston, can you program your participation in? Like so it's like when was at the end of it, you know, and I just got to be like

43:53 ICS, when are federal capacity?

44:43 When are Eunice, take it away? What do you think?

44:51 Yes.

45:01 FedEx benefits. Benefits Alliance.