Israel Three - Text
Subject was born in Jerusalem in 1974 and grew up near Tel-Aviv, in Rishon Le-Zion. Moved to Tel-Aviv when she was 19 or 20, and later lived in Italy for about a year and a half. Now resides in Los Angeles. Speaks Hebrew, Italian, French and English.
Interviewed by Joel Goldes 12.02.2002. Edited by Paul Meier. Running time 00:04:14
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
In Israel I was [uh] I grew up near Tel Aviv. I was born in Jerusalem. And I grew up near Tel Aviv. I [ah] moved to a city near Tel Aviv, it's called [um] Rishom.
R-I-S-H-O-M. Um, pretty young, probably, um, two, three year old. Yeah [uh] after I mo… I grew up there and then when I was… when I was nine…nineteen, twenty I moved to Tel Aviv for [um] for four or five years. Yeah. At school. Seven years old. More British. My mother's from Morocco and my father is from Poland. I have no idea.
Yeah. [unintelligible] I love school. I hated vacation. My mom said that every time that, every time there's a vacation it's bad for me because I wouldn't know what to do. And I'm still like that. Yeah. Well now I read or I just relax. Now I've learned to relax, but when I was younger I like to [unintelligible] Math. Math and biology and chemistry. But math was my favorite. I don't know, what is it? I think, third grade? Fourth grade is like when you really start to, yeah. Hebrew, Italian, and a little bit of French, and [uh] English, and I understand a little bit of Spanish….