Shantell: Script for audio excerpt
Kathy: Shantell, can you tell me a little bit about where you’re from?
Shantell: Strasburg.
Kathy: Strasburg? Strasburg, Pennsylvania? Is that where you're from?
Shantell: Mm-hm.
Kathy: And do you like it here?
Shantell: It’s a change but I want to leave.
Kathy: OK. Why’s that?
Shantell: ‘Cause I want to go to college and stuff.
Kathy: Yeah. Where are you thinking for college?
Shantell: East Strausburg University.
Kathy: You had said earlier that you also wanted to travel one day, right? Do you remember where you told me you wanted to travel to?
Shantell: I mean Hong-Kong, China.
Kathy: When did you know that you were interested in Chinese culture and Japanese culture?
Shantell: When my real mom died I moved from place to place to find a home and I used to live in Chinatown.
Kathy: You lived in Chinatown? In which city?
Shantell: New York.
Kathy: Who took care of you?
Shantell: The mom.
Kathy: Was it a foster mom?
Shantell: Yeah it was.
Kathy: You had also mentioned that you do some painting and art and ceramics. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Shantell: I like to draw.
Kathy: What do you like to draw?
Shantell: Pictures and cats and stuff.
Kathy: So where we going?
Shantell: To ceramics.
Kathy: Ceramics. Its such a big building!
Kathy: Shantell, are you working on anything right now?
Shantell: A cat!
Kathy: A cat? Oh, I should’ve known that.
Shantell: This is my, what I’ve been working on.
Kathy: Wow!
Shantell: Now I’m gonna do that next.
Kathy: Is that a cat also?
Shantell: Um hm.
Kathy: That’s a cat, ok.
Shantell: Because of its tail.
Kathy: Yeah. Where would you put this one or do people buy them from you?
Shantell: People buy them.
Kathy: Wow, look at all this stuff! Cool. Do you do other stuff or mostly cats?
Shantell: I like doing angels. I want to be an angel.
Shantell: Do I look kinda Chinese?
Kathy: You could pass off as a little Chinese.
Shantell: I’m part.
Kathy: Do I look a little Chinese?
Shantell: You are Chinese!
Kathy: That’s right. I am. I'm also a little Japanese too. My grandpa was…
Shantell: I'm part Japanese too.
Kathy: All, right!
Shantell: Konichiwa.
Kathy: Konichiwa. You probably know more Japanese than I do.