In this past week 8's lecture, I signed up to present my Extraordinary Person who is my great aunt, Everlita Rivera-David! The experience from the interviews to the presentation to currently working on the final memoir has been fun! I’m planning on making a newspaper type of article as her final memoir since receiving her newspaper article reviews were one of her favorite things to get! This experience was really nice as I got to learn a lot about her musical career from her childhood to now. It is definitely weird thinking about how the elders in my life have known me my whole life and have been aware of my growth from a baby. Yet, I know only 20 years aka a portion of their life. Also, in the past where I have interviewed a family member for a school project, it has usually been about a certain topic or a specific time, so it was nice to have had a lot of freedom and range on what the storytelling with our extraordinary person was going to be. It also allowed me and hopefully my peers as well to be creative and explore topics that we wanted to know more about our EP, which I really enjoyed in my personal experience as well as watching others’ presentations. I have loved seeing and hearing my peers’ Extraordinary Person presentations these past two weeks because everyone’s lives seem so interesting. I am definitely excited to hear the last group’s this week, although I am kind of bummed that it’s almost over.
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3/10/2021 04:16:37 pm
Hi Kiela! I really enjoyed listening to you present about your extraordinary person and hearing all about their music career, especially when you played their music in class, it was so beautiful! I agree that the oral history project had so much free range to truly explore any of their most fondest memories rather than being about one specific time or topic. With so much freedom of this project, I did find it a bit challenging in the beginning since I was unsure what direction our conversations/sessions would go with our extraordinary person, but in the end it all worked out. Hopefully once all our extraordinary people receive their memoirs, maybe our cohort can talk about our extraordinary people's reactions.
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Danny Yu
3/14/2021 06:55:30 pm
Hi Kiela! I also really enjoyed learning about your extraordinary person. It was amazing to learn about your extraordinary person's music career. I also find it kind of weird learning about what my extraordinary person (my dad) did when he was young as like what you said we have only been part of our parents' lives for ~20 years. For me it was really interesting learning about my dads upbringing and past career as I have only known him to be a chef my whole life.
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Ma Kiela OrtineroMa Kiela is a Global Health and Urban Studies & Planning double major from Corona, CA. A fun fact about her is that she has lived in 8 different cities (in 2 different continents) in the past 20 years! Archives
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