My Life Of My Mom 's Life

I interviewed my mother about her middle adulthood and the major transitions she'd encountered during this stage until now. Her name is Jasvir Gill and she is 47 years old. At first, I asked her about the physical changes that she has experienced

My interviewee's name is Paula Anderson-Worts. She was born in Jamaica back in the 1960’s. However, Paula along with her parents relocated to Florida when she was two years old for an improved life, and in search of the American dream. When Paula started school, she was inspired to become a teacher, doctor, and a fashion designer. Although, all throughout her life people told her she can’t become all those things, she has to select one. Even though this may be true, she still insisted on her dreams. In addition, “she thought it would be unique to follow in her mother’s footsteps”.

For my oral history project, I decided to interview my mother. I am pretty close with my mom, as we talk daily, and I am comfortable often to seek advice from her. A challenge that I faced was trying to find an appropriate date and time for the interview. My mom works six days a week, and I am often preoccupied with classes and school work. Another challenge was my mom’s hesitation with going into too much detail about her experiences. In addition, it was difficult to interview another family member such as a relative because I was not particularly close with my uncles or aunts, nor were any of them easy to contact due to variations in time zones. Furthermore, arguably one of my largest reason why I choose to interview my mom was because I never had taken the time or initiative to ask about my mom’s past. I had only knew of some general aspects, but never asked too much into detail. The oral history project was a perfect opportunity to dwell deeper into my family’s history and how they came to America.

The interview with my mother about the 1960’s I chose because she worked and remembered the 1960’s and would occasionally talk about that time. This conference took place at home with my mother Dr. Mary T. Kincaid who is 72 plus years old. My mother operated in the accounting department at that time, and approximately in 1968 received a promotion to the position of controller. She also taught part time at a college in Chicago starting in the 1970’s. Before the interview commenced, my mother was kind of nervous. But soon relaxed when I explain it would not keep her too long.

The interview that I executed was about a classmate, Laura born in 1970. She, at first, talked about her family background, then her childhood, and last a fact in history that she will never forget. Laura is a native of Arizona, she lives in the house that her grandparents bought when they started a family together. She has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister. During Laura’s childhood, her favorite things to do were going to the race track with her father, and playing in the backyard with her friends. Her least favorite thing was not having a parent at home, since her mom was working a lot. The day her mom gave the notice that she was going to work, her little brother said: “Then who will be our mom?” I thought this was very sad, and made me

I start off the interview with questions about her childhood. I ask her where and when she was born. She responds “I was born on September 25, 1970 in Oak Brook, Illinois.” “I would usually go to the park, would go to a cabin for vacation a lot, and would go to Wisconsin to visit family at least once a year.” she replies as I ask her what it was like growing up there. After that I ask her what was one of the best and worst moments as a kid. She replies quickly with her best experience was getting her first car and her driver's license. My mom had to think for a while on the question of what was the worst experience. The room was quiet for several minutes-not a sound was heard.

In between the two world wars, America suffered from hunger and unemployment. This all happened because of the huge economic crisis, which struck the whole world in 1929. It is not unusual that this type of crisis can lead man into alcoholism and gambling, and quickly, a whole family can be on the edge of destruction.

I chose my mother as one of the two family members to Interview. One major value that meant a lot to her and her family growing up was making the most out of what you have. Based off of this statement alone, I could tell that she must not have had much growing up. My mother’s parents didn’t make much, and for her parents it was hard to feed and take care of her and all of her siblings. She lived a seemingly rough life, but she became a better person because of it. She talked about how she learned a lot from her mother, who worked extremely hard to keep her family safe and fed. An example of making the most out of what she had was both disgusting and sad. My mother always tells my siblings and I about how when she was a kid she would be forced

In between the two world wars, America suffered from hunger and unemployment. This all happened because of the huge economic crisis, which struck the whole world in 1929. It is not unusual that this type of crisis can lead man into alcoholism and gambling, and quickly, a whole family can be on the edge of destruction.

For the interview I conducted, I chose to talk to my mom. Her name is Teresa Stutts, and she is 56 years old. She was born and raised in Florence, AL. she is I actually grew up in the same house she did. She went to a private Christian school; my sister and I attended the same school as well. She started working at a bank when she was 19, and she completed 2 years of college but didn’t graduate. Her dad passed away in 1980, when she was still in school. He was the one encouraged her to finish, but she didn’t like school and got a promotion at the bank. She has two children, and she has been married to my dad for 25 years. Neither one of them had been married before, and neither one had previous children. My sister and I are their only children.

If someone asked me what I thought of my brother, the first thing to come out of my mouth would be; my brother is the most annoying, naïve, misguided person I know. I realize that might sound mean, but it’s completely true. What I don’t tell people often however, is my little brother, Tre’von, is one of the biggest contributions to help me become the person I want to be in life. Unfortunately, being aware of my life goals and striving to achieve them, doesn’t help me and brother’s relationship or his personal life problems.

There are many moments in our lives that we keep forever. We can easily remember them by talking with friends, family or even yourself. However, you will get more details about what were you thinking on a specific day when you see a photo. Important moments can be keep in a photograph, but what you think of them it is what change with time. My prom was and important day for me, however, there are a lot of things that I wish I could know after that night.

In the year of 2008, my grandma passed away. My family had a feeling she was gonna leave us one day but not so soon. She was the most caring and loving women that I ever met in my life. My whole life I called her “Grandma K” for her being my dad’s mom. Seeing her go was a lot for me take on with me being only eight years old. I couldn’t understand on why she had to leave. I would ask my parent’s “Why did she have to go so soon?” they would continue to tell me she’s in a better place now.

I have spent most of my life as an older brother. My little brother, Quinn, was born on July 26th in 2005. I don’t remember much about it though because I was only three. My parents tell me I was never jealous of Quinn, like most little children are once a sibling comes into the world. My brother and I have become great friends, we fight alot, but then again what brothers don’t. We share many things, Our Computer, PlayStation, Video games, and even some clothes. It sucks sometimes but It also makes us closer in an odd way. My brother and I look very similar despite the three year age gap. Whenever we go places we are always asked if we are twins. One time someone even mistook me for my brother and congratulated me for a speech he had just done.

At times, I see my life as being stupidly stressful. I’m young, I want time to myself. Time where I have nothing to do. Where I can take naps, eat a half-gallon of ice cream and become addicted to some new television series. As a matter of fact, I lived that lifestyle once. To be honest, I absolutely hated it. As stressful as days can be, with little to no pauses, I much prefer it than not keeping busy.Time is so scarce, I try to make the most of it. More specifically by playing time, or rather, playing drums.