The person i interview was Adriana. She is 24 years old and has 2 kids. Her favorite game was jump rope. Jump rope is a game that you or anyone jumps in a rope and make tricks and see how long you last. When you mess up that means you lost. She would play this game when she was 7 or 8 years old. One of her ancestor story was when her uncle was killed. He was followed by another car and when he pull over to confront them, they shot him and killed him. Her major is nursing.

--By Cecelia Cardenas

 

I am going to introduce Norma she is 18 years old, and is attending to English 250-260 with Ms. Smith. I had to interview her, and the experience turn out to be really interesting, I got to know her a little bit better. My first question was ?What is your most memorable child game you have? And what was the most important rule to it?? She told me about a game she would play in fifth grade in elementary school, Round Up was the name and the game was played with a lot of kids the more the better. There would be two groups of kids mostly all boys and she was the only girl, these two groups would have to tag each other and if they got caught they would have to stay frozen until another member of there own group would come and tag them to get free. The kids from would do anything to not get tag by the opposite group, they would get on trees, the roof, on the playground, anywhere possible. She remembers that kids would get hurt or get into fights. For what I saw she enjoy playing Round Up.

I also ask her a question from her ancestor, and she told me a story her grandmother told her mom, and her mom had told her when she was little. The first time her mom told her about the story was on a night on there way to wal-mart. The point of the story was to scare the kids to not go out late at night, because this lady and a baby who was the devil would come out and get them. Norma told me that even though she had heard the story she would always ask her mom if she could tell it again, and every time she heard the story it would be like it was the first time she heard it.

We also had the chance to ask any question we wanted to and I ask her ?would you ever tell your kid that story? at first she said no because she didn?t want him to be scared but after she said she would just to keep that story in the family, since her grandmother told her mom, and her mom told Norma so now she will tell her son. It?s like a tradition she will keep in the family.

--By Laura Lopez

 

I interviewed Jesse Sandow. He stated that one important game as a child that he remembers of is hide and seek. He says that this was one of his favorite games because it was an easy game to play. He learned how to play it by following others, like his older friends and neighbors. He would play hide and seek both indoors and outdoors, although he would rather play outdoors due to the fact that his home was a small place. During the process of playing Jesse admitted that he really enjoyed cheating, and getting a head start, to peek at where the others would hide. Sometimes females where excluded from playing, just because the boys would act silly, and make this decision. There was actually no reward that they would receive for winning, just the pride, and the sort of ?ticket? to tease others. ?Hahaha I beat you?.

--By Vanessa Diaz

 

 

Mrs. Smith I want to introduceto you my new friend Arnulfo. When he was a child he used to play tag with his friend. He told me that the most importan rule in this game is to touch another player. After you touch another player you have to run and don't let that player touch you back. The most of the time they used to play in his house but during the night because will be harder to find them.

The story that he told me about his ancestor is that in the place were he used to live along time ago during the Mexican Revolution. The people who got injury during the war were moved in wagon to a save place.One time a wagen fall into the river with a person on it. The person who fall stand up and give a step and then die. That's why the people from that place called "El Paso del muerto".

Arnulfo during his free time he like to play soccer with his friend and exercise his body running.

--By Antonio Luna

 

In class today we had to do an interview on one of our classmates. I interviewed Juan B. The three questions I asked were really good questions. The first question was. What was your favorite childhood game, Juan’s favorite childhood game is freestyle soccer. The most important rule is to not let the ball hit the ground. While not using your hands, His brother was the other player. Juan usually played freestyle soccer in a parking lot for about 3 hours. The next question is to tell about a story from an ancestor. Juan said his Great Grandpa use to say that gold would be stolen and buried in xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Mexico. The people who buried it would forget so therefore there’s buried gold in Mexico. (Supposedly) Juan said his Grandpa usually told this story when it was night and he was drunk. Juan said he felt scared. His brother was also there. The last question was a wild card. I asked him about his childhood. Juan said he had an easy childhood because his parents were very supportive and they were always there. He had a fun exciting childhood. Both parents were involved. Juan has 1 brother and 2 sisters. He was the middle child. I learned a lot about Juan this assignment was very good because it made understand another person and be open to what he had to say.

--By Laura Vasquez

 

I would like to introduce Cesar. A game that Cesar really enjoyed playing when he was a child was a game called El Bote. El Bote is a game that a lot of the mexican kids would play and this game was really popular among some kids. This game is similar to hide and seek except that a plastic bottle would be used and many times it would be filled with dirt and rocks or just rocks. When the bottle had been filled with the rocks then one of the kids would throw the bottle as far as he could and then the kid that was it he or she would have to go get the bottle while the rest of the kids had to go and hide somewhere. Cesar would usually play the game with ten other kids and he would usually play during the night or when it was dark because it was easier for them to hide somewhere were it would be difficult to be found. There wasn't really a rule for the game the only thing that had to be done was that the bottle had to be placed in a certaing place and that was decided by the kids so that when the kid was far away from the bottle and if there was somebody close to the bottle he could go out of his hidding place and save the restof the kids which made the same kid be it again. The same kid would be it until he had found all the kids and nobody had saved the rest of the kids.

A story that Cesar knows from his ancestors is that his great grandpa fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Unfortunately Cesar doesn't know any more details from this story because he hasnt been told more from this story that I think it would be great to know more from.

I asked Cesar what his major was and he said that he didn't had one yet but he was thinking about going into business. Among other things that I asked him other than the ones that we were given, I asked him if he was from Mexico and he said "Yes," so then I asked him what part and he said "Durango."

--By Jannete Avila

 

It would be my pleasure to introduce the lovely Julie Realado. As a child Julie enjoyed playing tether ball. This simple game held no true rules besides win! The object of the game was to wrap the tether ball around the pole it was attached to. xml:namespace

As a child Julie remembers her great grandmother as an endless fountain of love and affection. Grandma Realado would always have money or a treat for Julie every time she saw her. At the age of 60 Grandma Realado had a boyfriend she lived with for several years, which at the time was unheard of.

Julie has had a very vibrant religious background. Baptized as an infant in the Catholic Church, she spent the first five years of her life as a weekly attendant. At the age of five her mother began attending a Christian church. The reason being the priest did not set a good example for her young Julie. Now Julie attends abundant life four square church where she happily takes her child, like her mother took her.

--By Sam Bejarano

 

I did an interview today in my English class. I interviewed Joshelyn, and then she did interview. There were tree questions that we had to ask our partners. The first question that I ask was for her to tell me a a game she hade played with she was a child and what rules she had for that particular game. Joshelyn told that her favorite game was called ?Encantados? it sort of like playing Tag. In this game there?s two different teams and a base. One team has to be on the base side and the other one in the field. The point of the game is that they have to try to tag everyone with out touching the base and whatever team touches the other whole team wins.

The next question was for joshelyn to tell me a story that about an ancestor. She told me that her grandma always talks about her grandpa so important in xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Mexico and how they had a lot of money. Joshelyn says that her grandma always lies about her past.

I asked joshlyn if she had brothers and sisters and she told that she had 2 sisters and 2 brothers. One thing that was really amazing was to know that she has a fraternal twin.

--By Licet Zepeda

 

I did a very short interview with Kevin (a new student of our English classes). We didn?t talk much during the interview. I only asked him a couple question. The fist question I asked him was ?What was the game that he enjoyed the most as a child?? I found out that his favorite child?s game was rock paper and scissors. That was the game that he remember the most. Because he enjoyed the most in that game. The rule of this game is player can only allow to use their hands to produce a paper, rock and scissors. Once they make their decision, they are not allow to change it. he also told me something about his mother?s side. But I don?t remember much about it. I also asked him a wild question, the question that I asked him was ?how tall is he?? I found out that he is about 6?11?.

--By Kei-Sum Liu

 

I interviewed Sandra. She was a blast to talk to. A very bubbly, sweet, young lady. The first question I asked her was "what child game did you love as a little child?" She told me that she loved and played hide and go seek. She explained that she lived in mexico and the whole block they lived on was her cousins and family. The smell was a mixture of dirt, trees and the sweet aroma of food.

Next she told me about grandfather and how he would tell her stories around the fire. How his great grandfather had met Cortes. The crazy stories of gold. What people would do to get their hands on it and to protect it. She told me that they would even kill a man to have his spirit protecting the gold. I asked her how she felt, when she heard these stories. She told me she felt excited and scared listening to these stories.

The last question that I asked her was, "What do you want to be?" She told me she wants to be a teacher. A teacher for little kids. Preferably kindergarden/1st.

--By Tonya Gurries

 

1. I interviewed Mimi and as a young child she loved to play hide n go seek with her friends when she was young! The most important rule that she had with her young friends was to see who had the best spot to hide. The kids that she was playing with at the age of 8yrs old were from her neighbor hood in the complex that she lived at in a big grassy area that was close to her house. They always would go outside and play hid n go seek only when it was sunny outside never when it was raining.

2. As a child her family would always tell her that if her family were to live in the xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Philippines then she would be a princess and have a royal life because her grandparents were very wealthy and had a position of a king and queen. She mention that maybe they would tell her that because she was a young girl and wanted to make her feel special and have a good look on her family?s history.

3. I ask her where dose she see her self 5 yrs from now. She says that she wanted to have her own house. She wants it to be big and very well designed because she also wants a house in Greece and could go there on her own time and have a great aspect on how they design and live over there. She enjoys looking at the way they design there homes over there very vintage and she LOVES that. She also would like a mustang all nice and pretty because she likes the model and can fix it up just the way she wants it!

--By Carlos Magallanez

 

In class to day I asked Carol a student of my a couple questions. The first question I asked her was what game as a child did she enjoy and what it meant to her? Carol told me she loved to make money by creating a lottery in here classes. She would bring in several pieces of paper with numbers on them and sell them for 5 cents apiece and the student would win a gift, like an eraser, pen, or toys.

Another question I asked her was for here to ell me about a story from her ancestors? She said there was a homeless man they named shampoo because of his nappy hair. Carol was told to never go around him because shampoo would kidnap her and take her away.

Last but not least the last question was if she could go back and change one thing in her childhood what would it be? She said she would want to play more sports sense her mother did not want her to. Her mother felt that sports were a waste of time and she could be doing something better with her time. So she snuck out and did it any way.

--By Nick

I am going to introduce you some one who is really out going and wants a better education for himself. This person doesn?t know how to give up and he is a student at Gavilan College his name is Antonio. Antonio likes to play soccer and he has played soccer since the time he noticed he had two feet, well to be more accurate since he started to walk. When I was interviewing Antonio I felt the sensation that soccer runs through his veins because he has been playing for a long time and when he talks about soccer he describes it like if he was a painter and he was talking about his most beautiful work of art. The most important rule in soccer is to score as many goals as you can because the team that scores the most goals is the team that wins. Antonio plays soccer for a league in Hollister. Last season his team ended up in second place. A story that Antonio has from the past is that when he was little his mom always told him to go to bed before 8:00pm because if he didn?t then the CUCUY (buggy man) was going to come and take him away. Antonio is from Guanajuato , Mexico and the thing that he most likes about Guanajuato is the food, his favorite dish id enchiladas MmMmMm they are good.

My favorite game as a child was La Capirusita roja . My brothers and I would play four hour. We would get socks and fill them up w/ socks and have a red bandana and the person that would were the bandana would try to guess the person that was hitting them.

--Arnulfo Velasquez

My grandpa was us to be a migrant worker. He came to xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / California when they paid like $2.00 an hour and my favorite color is green.

--Karina Correa

1. The game he enjoyed was Tag and the most important rule was that you have to count to 10 without looking where the others will hide and run around until the chosen one touch you.

--by anonymous

 

Hi. My name is Tiffany Bustos. I am nineteen years old and attend Fresno State, but am currently attending Gavilan College. My major is Liberal Studies and I am minoring in Dance.

At the age of 5, I started dancing, and found it very fun and entertaining. But as a child, i still loved to play games and hang out with the friends. My favorite games to play were jump rope and hop-scotch. Geez..were they the best games EVER![http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/04.gif]

There were not really any rules to hop-scotch because my friends and I played it how we wanted to play, but for jump rope the only rule, really, was if you messed up and caught the rope, then your turn was over. I dont really play these games very much now, since i have aged a little bit, but still remember the good memories of playing with my friends, as a child.

I have a really big family, but who doesn't. I have my mother and father and two brothers. I am the only girl, who is stuck in the middle. But really no complaints, because I feel spoiled. My parents really dont talk about their past or any ancestors, besides the fact that my family came from Mexico, and we should be really lucky for what we have. No stories really come to mind. Made some stories of my own, but that's a whole other story.

What do I do in my spare time?? In my spare time i like to hang out with the friends, dance, and take a lot of pictures.

--Tiffany Bustos

The person I interviewed was Jannete. She is 19 years old from a family of Michoacan, Mexico. As a child she remembers playing house with her cousins when she was around 8 years. The rules would be that she would always be the mother and her cousin the father. In playing the game they would sometimes go out as boyfriend and girlfriend. She likes kids so thats why she would always pretend to be the mom.

One of her ancestors story would be that her great grandpa was the richest person in his town but was killed by people who wanted his money. Her grampa was supose to inherit the money but the people who killed her great grandpa got it.

She is not quite sure of what major she might do but she is thinking of either teaching,psycology, or law.

--By Cesar Quiones

 

I interviewed Tonya, her favorite game as a child was hide-and-seek. One of her favorites place to hide was the drier, until one day her brother turned it on. She started spinning in side the drier, she started screaming and her brother turned off the drier.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

I ask her what did she felt when she was spinning in side the drier? Her response was ?It was getting hot and I was scared!?

When I asker about a story told by her ancestors, she got kind of quiet and she smiled. She said that the only thing her grandma talked about was about how the kids get spoiled on these days. That?s when her grandma starts talking about her self and how the had to work hard as a child. Her grandma also remembers the carriages pull by horses, and the dusty rural roads.

Finally, I asker about what did she believed in her response was ?Fairies.? I asker what did she meant by fairies, she said that when she was a child she used to pretend or imaged that she could talk to her pets and that she could really understand them.

--By Carmen Valdivia

 

The person I interviewed was my friend Nick. For Him playing monopoly was the most favorite thing he enjoyed to do. He loved to feel that he was in control of the situation by owning properties and having the most money. He told me a story from his grandmother. She use to talk to him about a legend of a woman that drawn her child by the creek at night. Supposedly this woman will kidnap Kids and will never return them back. That scared him to death. After all I asked him, if he will be willing to make the monopoly game reality? His answer was yes, I will make the monopoly game come true as soon as I get my ducks in line.

--Carol Knolle

 

The person I interviewed was K-Sum. I found K-Sum to be quiet yet very funny. It was really difficult to get this interview started. I can't say it was shyness, but rather the awkwardness of asking personal questions to a complete stranger. To describe K-Sum he's an average sized guy with the look of long punk rock hair.

The childhood game that came to his mind was the original classic Hide and Go Seek. He kept explaining how his memory isn't the sharpest, but what I did get from his recollections were some tips and advice about the game. He claimed that he always had the best hiding spots and rarely had to be the 'it' person. He told me some of his keep hiding places like, under the sink and also behind the washing machine.

K-Sum didn't have much to say about his ancestors except that his grandfather immigrated from China. K-Sum himself moved here to California just about three years ago. He is the oldest of three children, having a younger brother and sister.

I asked K-Sum what he thought was one of his best attributes and without hesitation he claimed that the best thing about him is that he is Asian. He can't fight the fact of his orientation so he gladly accepts it. Oh and he really likes Mexican food.

--Kevin Lynch

Interviewee: Adrian

2. A story from his ancestors was that his grandpa had to leave his homeland to come to the xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / USA to look for a better life, because the Mexican economy was very bad down in Mexico.

3. He doesn?t want to change something in his life, because with the life that he lived, he had learned a lot of things that he does not regret learning.

--By Nestor Lopez

 

I thought I would get in on the act and introduce myself as well. You all asked some great questions on our opening introduction form. I think by answering the three questions you asked each other, I'll give you a better sense of who I am as well. So here goes.

1) What game did I like to play as a child and what was its most important rule:

When I was about six or seven and living in a small town in Idaho with my family, I used to love play a game with my brother and our neighborhood friends. We called this game "Lost Children" and basically though the setting sometimes changed, the rules were always the same. We were kids who were either orphaned or had terrible parents and we had to cross the seas, or the mountains or so on to get back to some better life we remembered having. In other words, our rule was to have an adventure, and I remember many sunny summer days with six or so kids paddling a giant cardboard refrigerator box across the ocean of our green lawn, running from our families on our way to a better life. These games of imagination absolutely consumed me even though I had what I think of as a very loving family.

2) Here are some stories about my ancestors:

At about the time of the civil war, one died because he drank some lemonde that had been mixed in a bucket used to store lye. The resulting chemical reaction created a poison that he unknowingly drank. Another story is that my great-grandfather, the sherriff of Logan County West Virginia, a man with a reputation for great unkindness, had a son that was kidnapped during a coal  mining strike. I have a bracelet that one of my mom's cousins, a daughter of the sherriff from a second family he kept hidden in a holler. She gave it to my mom when she moved out to California as a girl. She wore it all through her teen years, and I still wear it today.

3) Wild Card: Why do I teach?

I feel really lucky because I love my job. Not everyone is so lucky to love their work. I'm not saying it's always fun or easy. It's not. Teaching is the best as well as the hardest job I've ever had, but I think it helps me as a writer and I love the wonderful combination of planning for things and never being able to anticipate what 's going to happen in the classroom. Classroom learning is like a wonderful creative project that gets built through the collaboration of everyone in the room, and I always have loved collaborating. So, thanks for giving me the opportunity to collaborate with you this term, and nice to meet you.

--Kimberly Smith