I also don't have a voice. Yes. Is that? Um, you want to do that? Okay.
That's good.
Okay. It's recording now. So it looks like it has 31% power In an hour and
45 minutes on the cart. Okay. So that should do. Okay. So that should work
a little bit closer to you.
Okay.
Okay. Great. So let's just start out. Well, first of all I'm James James
Garcia. Uh, you may know my wife, my wife teaches at Arizona state West
campus. And okay, I have a long background journalism. So I'm just helping
her with this project. Issue captures some of these oral histories. Um, so
, uh, let's start off just first of all with your full name and spelling
of your name. Okay. So um, my name is a terror. I wrote. How are you? It's
a T H E R. Well, pages usually it's yeah, just spell it food. How you
would write it at our last names are Okay. And your first name and a chair.
Yeah. Okay. And how old are you? I'm 30. 30. Yeah. Okay. Um, so let's
just uh, we'll begin just by um, the name that you use now. Because I know
that sometimes some of the folks that come as refugees to change their
name. Is this the name you were given at birth? Yes. The name was giving
me a birth. Uh, except in Arabic is just that it's a theater, you know, so
, but in my pronunciation time is a, you know, just basically a T E. R.
There's no asian. Okay. But it was the name that was given to you. Right
, okay. Great. And where exactly were you born? I was born in, throughout
which is, It's in the seven. I don't know much about lot about stop. As I
actually as I got older I started learning a little bit about South
southern because I was I was I spent all my life up north in the north of
the north for dad and then Egypt. You know that's where I actually grew up
in here. Okay. Okay. See you later in Egypt. So now you were and how old
did you say? I'm 30? 30. Okay. Now do you know your parents? Do you know
the names of your parents? So my dad is, his name is a rope ring duke. And
my mother is Yaron. Yeah. Why are. Okay? Could you spell both of their
names? So a rope is a R. O. P june business. Last name is J. U. K. Long is
A L. A N. G. Yeah. So that's your, that's your father's lost. My father's
your mother's name? My mother's Yar. Y. A. R. Her last name is Ring R. I.
N. G. Okay. Um now are your parents uh here in the States? So they still
live back in the Sudan. Well, unfortunately my father passed when I was a
kid. Uh
Fire is also the movie. Uh My mother still lived and your dad, she was in
north because she's been a city throughout her life. She was in North and
didn't move back this up until uh after the peace which is I believe he
went back the first time because
yeah finally was able to move back
three years ago. So now she's resigned in the southern part of Sudan.
She's now living in. Okay great.
And what about brothers and sisters? Do you have brothers and sisters? I
have a younger younger brother with me today. And then I am assembling
younger siblings. I have
I have three sisters and another brother back My three Sisters and another
brother back home was your mother. But you have a younger brother who
lives here. Yeah I have a brother with me. So okay well what is his name?
His name is a book A G. E. K. Okay same last name they are now. But even
though you grew up, you said a lot of the north and then later in Egypt
that your family was from South Sudan. Yes. My father and my mother both
from south. Yeah my father at the time was he was he went to school you
know in North and then later on he moved to England because his sister
older sister was actually in England for school there and her husband was
actually when the snow is still United at the time he was ambassador to
England Utopia. So he should travel that used to travel with him. I got
arrested. Okay so my father actually was stationed as a border patrol at
the time and he was working and wow. And that's where you know, I believe
as a kid, I have still have a life back memory uh to where we'll go to the
south where my dad was agent at. And he had there was kind of like a
farming land which I believe it was here was peanuts. So that my mother
used to work there on the field extended. Okay.
And so hold on, hold on. Just what's that test?
Never. All right, sure.
Yes. Should pick it up, but asked like, okay.
I mean, I definitely I'm getting the image recording.
Let's see. Yeah,
yeah.
Yeah, that's something you don't want the bar.
I tried to do that. I wouldn't be able to
because I say I am bilingual, you know too. Is that? Yeah, it means you
Yeah, you did you study in spanish high school day? I was I have to take a
second language, but I took french uh in high school. But then I realized
later on I should have but I want to always learn spanish. So yeah. Yeah.
So, I kind of picked up because I have a lot of spanish friends. Okay,
Okay. High school place at her. Yeah. Where did you go to high school? I
went to Washington Washington high school. That's right on productor.
Mhm.
Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah.
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