Milena Muzquiz and Stephanie Taylor
Recorded
January 29, 2009
37:58 minutes
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Id:
MBY004963
Description
Milena Muzquiz (31) is interviewed by her friend, Stephanie Taylor (37) about growing up and her move to the U.S. from Tijuana when she was in elementary school.Subject Log / Time Code
Milena was born in Tijuana, Mexico; mother was born in Veracruz; father was born to a family of horse breeders in Muzquiz, Mexico
Milena describes herself as an “outcast” character; divorce; didn’t know how to speak English when she moved to San Diego; San Diego in the 80s, she felt the racism
Dealing with not knowing how to speak English; television was important; ear for comedy; music was important
story about Milena deciding that she want to eat only strawberries and cream for breakfast; family went on a road trip through Mexico
Milena was sent to pack tortillas at a tortilla factory; description of the tortilla factory
Participants
- Milena Muzquiz
- Stephanie Taylor
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- Accidents
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Art School
- Childhood Games
- college
- family expressions
- family naming and nicknames
- family trips and excursions
- first impression of America
- fresas
- Influential People
- Injuries
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- mexico
- Monkey Club
- Muzquiz, Mexico
- personal experiences
- religious beliefs and practices
- San Diego
- school day memories
- schoolyard games
- strawberries and cream
- Tijuana
- tortilla factory
- Tortillas
- Veracruz