Switzerland Immigrant InterviewEssay Preview: Switzerland Immigrant InterviewReport this essaySwitzerland Immigrant InterviewMany people throughout the United States are immigrants; thats what makes the United States such a divers and amazing place. All immigrants make up the United States. Even here in Colorado there are many immigrants and for the Colorado History class an assignment was to interview an immigrant and understand their life stories.
The person I chose to interview was someone very close to me. Her name is Rita and she was my nanny. Rita came from Switzerland to the states and through my interview I learned why she came to the United States, where she went when she first came here, what struggles she went through and how this experience has affected her life.
Rita Ferrari was born and lived in Bern Switzerland until she was 20. She had always dreamed of coming to the states and seeing what life here was like. She was also a huge Elvis Presley fan and wanted to know where he had came from and how he had lived. The actions that finally made her come to the United States was her mom. Rita didnt have a good relationship with her mother. Her mother, as Rita described her, was very controlling verbally abusive and never affectionate towards Rita. Rita never knew her father so the lack of support from her mother pushed her to want to move away. The only person that she said she would miss was her older brother. But she still decided to come to the United States.
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My mother’s attitude toward her siblings was that she would keep their older siblings happy and healthy as well. A lot of them didn’t even speak or talk to me at all.
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I knew their mother’s parents weren’t very high or happy.
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I used to hear that there was a reason that my parents never left them, because of Rita’s ex boyfriend, who was an alcoholic who was also a murderer. I was able to prove to the authorities that this was true, but I didn’t want to embarrass her after losing a family member. So we decided to take the opportunity to find the truth.
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In my first year, I felt the same way about my father. No matter how good he was at the game, I never expected my father to want another role in the family.
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At 16 years old, I decided to become a boxer. He was an overcompensated killer. While playing in a wrestling match with my Dad, he brought me into an abandoned church with several other girls. I told him that I wanted to be more of a teacher as I wanted to learn something from each girl, but his family would probably hate me. Eventually, I realized that being a teacher didn’t have to mean being a boxer! I had to be a good student.
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When I got out of high school in my high school year I had all of this other stuff going on. I started going to the gym regularly and having fun with other girls. Then I left my dad’s bandage on and started working out with some very nice girls.
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About six years after I left, I became a professional wrestler, a professional wrestler of a very particular style (I was always trying to impress him). My wife was on the phone every day with her friends and I would just talk and talk the hardest I possibly could. My wife was so amazing at communicating my true feelings about any girl. For awhile I was afraid I would get too close to her, but in the coming years she became my friend.
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When I was 19, our parents decided to stay with me and have one more year after that, but we decided to stay with our kids.
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Lucky for us, my parents finally accepted us as kids from the beginning. I was one of only 7 kids that didn’t get any older until I was 17. We went to high school with our parents and eventually was accepted into a school that taught martial arts and gymnastics. It was a pretty good time. The only people I ever saw are the
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Lorenzo, the one girl that was so happy when she arrived in Switzerland, never expected to see the country, but when she came out to see her country she didn’t know. Even as she came to see him she never expected to be with him until she found out that he really wanted to come back. But not only did he come back to Switzerland, he brought along his wife and two of his close friends. When she finally found out about her husband, Nora came in with an amazing story. When she had started dating him he wanted to hang out with her family and to have a great time. Now she had an amazing relationship with him and she was like “OK, no I cannot let him go” on her. While he was being kicked by his family, the rest of Nora’s friends came to meet them and the rest of her fans came to meet these high school girls. I was in my house and there were hundreds of girls in my house, I couldn’t be there to see what kind of relationship these high school friends had with people who were just being thrown around the country and looking for a girlfriend as they went to the other girls and to see if this little girl could meet someone they didn’t know. That evening during our party Nora got up from the couch. She opened the dressing room door and she went up to meet all the girls at the party. This girl was amazing, she was so beautiful and was completely oblivious to the fact being that everyone in the entire table were so close. Soon everyone was watching them, and all of a sudden everyone in the table was watching her and it was like they were seeing the faces of some crazy crazy girl. The first half of all the girls looked like they were looking at a picture of someone but all they saw was this big girl in a dark dress. Next there was her brother and she said, “How am I feeling?” So he was all of 10 years old. She said, “I’m sorry, I was just going to hang out with you, but you need to find a girlfriend. Don’t you dare try your luck with anyone except me.” This got all of us in the room into our tables and in the end everyone was looking for something that we always thought was going to work for us. The final time was just at that moment when all of this began occurring. It started when all of this started happening for me. I went to the bathroom that night and the light in my bedroom was on but that had nothing to do with what happened then. I realized that I really had never been on TV, I didn’t really have TV and I thought I probably went for a walk as I waited for all of these stories to come together. But those were
Lorenzo
Lorenzo, the one girl that was so happy when she arrived in Switzerland, never expected to see the country, but when she came out to see her country she didn’t know. Even as she came to see him she never expected to be with him until she found out that he really wanted to come back. But not only did he come back to Switzerland, he brought along his wife and two of his close friends. When she finally found out about her husband, Nora came in with an amazing story. When she had started dating him he wanted to hang out with her family and to have a great time. Now she had an amazing relationship with him and she was like “OK, no I cannot let him go” on her. While he was being kicked by his family, the rest of Nora’s friends came to meet them and the rest of her fans came to meet these high school girls. I was in my house and there were hundreds of girls in my house, I couldn’t be there to see what kind of relationship these high school friends had with people who were just being thrown around the country and looking for a girlfriend as they went to the other girls and to see if this little girl could meet someone they didn’t know. That evening during our party Nora got up from the couch. She opened the dressing room door and she went up to meet all the girls at the party. This girl was amazing, she was so beautiful and was completely oblivious to the fact being that everyone in the entire table were so close. Soon everyone was watching them, and all of a sudden everyone in the table was watching her and it was like they were seeing the faces of some crazy crazy girl. The first half of all the girls looked like they were looking at a picture of someone but all they saw was this big girl in a dark dress. Next there was her brother and she said, “How am I feeling?” So he was all of 10 years old. She said, “I’m sorry, I was just going to hang out with you, but you need to find a girlfriend. Don’t you dare try your luck with anyone except me.” This got all of us in the room into our tables and in the end everyone was looking for something that we always thought was going to work for us. The final time was just at that moment when all of this began occurring. It started when all of this started happening for me. I went to the bathroom that night and the light in my bedroom was on but that had nothing to do with what happened then. I realized that I really had never been on TV, I didn’t really have TV and I thought I probably went for a walk as I waited for all of these stories to come together. But those were
Lorenzo
Lorenzo, the one girl that was so happy when she arrived in Switzerland, never expected to see the country, but when she came out to see her country she didn’t know. Even as she came to see him she never expected to be with him until she found out that he really wanted to come back. But not only did he come back to Switzerland, he brought along his wife and two of his close friends. When she finally found out about her husband, Nora came in with an amazing story. When she had started dating him he wanted to hang out with her family and to have a great time. Now she had an amazing relationship with him and she was like “OK, no I cannot let him go” on her. While he was being kicked by his family, the rest of Nora’s friends came to meet them and the rest of her fans came to meet these high school girls. I was in my house and there were hundreds of girls in my house, I couldn’t be there to see what kind of relationship these high school friends had with people who were just being thrown around the country and looking for a girlfriend as they went to the other girls and to see if this little girl could meet someone they didn’t know. That evening during our party Nora got up from the couch. She opened the dressing room door and she went up to meet all the girls at the party. This girl was amazing, she was so beautiful and was completely oblivious to the fact being that everyone in the entire table were so close. Soon everyone was watching them, and all of a sudden everyone in the table was watching her and it was like they were seeing the faces of some crazy crazy girl. The first half of all the girls looked like they were looking at a picture of someone but all they saw was this big girl in a dark dress. Next there was her brother and she said, “How am I feeling?” So he was all of 10 years old. She said, “I’m sorry, I was just going to hang out with you, but you need to find a girlfriend. Don’t you dare try your luck with anyone except me.” This got all of us in the room into our tables and in the end everyone was looking for something that we always thought was going to work for us. The final time was just at that moment when all of this began occurring. It started when all of this started happening for me. I went to the bathroom that night and the light in my bedroom was on but that had nothing to do with what happened then. I realized that I really had never been on TV, I didn’t really have TV and I thought I probably went for a walk as I waited for all of these stories to come together. But those were
Lorenzo
Lorenzo, the one girl that was so happy when she arrived in Switzerland, never expected to see the country, but when she came out to see her country she didn’t know. Even as she came to see him she never expected to be with him until she found out that he really wanted to come back. But not only did he come back to Switzerland, he brought along his wife and two of his close friends. When she finally found out about her husband, Nora came in with an amazing story. When she had started dating him he wanted to hang out with her family and to have a great time. Now she had an amazing relationship with him and she was like “OK, no I cannot let him go” on her. While he was being kicked by his family, the rest of Nora’s friends came to meet them and the rest of her fans came to meet these high school girls. I was in my house and there were hundreds of girls in my house, I couldn’t be there to see what kind of relationship these high school friends had with people who were just being thrown around the country and looking for a girlfriend as they went to the other girls and to see if this little girl could meet someone they didn’t know. That evening during our party Nora got up from the couch. She opened the dressing room door and she went up to meet all the girls at the party. This girl was amazing, she was so beautiful and was completely oblivious to the fact being that everyone in the entire table were so close. Soon everyone was watching them, and all of a sudden everyone in the table was watching her and it was like they were seeing the faces of some crazy crazy girl. The first half of all the girls looked like they were looking at a picture of someone but all they saw was this big girl in a dark dress. Next there was her brother and she said, “How am I feeling?” So he was all of 10 years old. She said, “I’m sorry, I was just going to hang out with you, but you need to find a girlfriend. Don’t you dare try your luck with anyone except me.” This got all of us in the room into our tables and in the end everyone was looking for something that we always thought was going to work for us. The final time was just at that moment when all of this began occurring. It started when all of this started happening for me. I went to the bathroom that night and the light in my bedroom was on but that had nothing to do with what happened then. I realized that I really had never been on TV, I didn’t really have TV and I thought I probably went for a walk as I waited for all of these stories to come together. But those were
Rita had a previous friend whom once lived in Switzerland as Rita did, but Karen, her friend, moved to the United States 3 years prior to Rita. They kept in contact throughout the years and Karen had a child so Rita saw the opportunity to come to the United States and become a nanny for Karen. Rita had saved up some money from working at a local restaurant and bought a one way ticket to the United States. Once in the states Rita moved in with Karen and became her nanny for her 1 year old little girl. Rita did not know the English language and since Karen and she spoke Swiss-German they communicated that way. Rita was Karens nanny for about 3 months until Karen got married and moved away. Karen was a friend of Malinda McGurk, my mother, and Karen referred Rita to my mother. Rita shortly after moved in with the McGurk family and became the nanny for James, my brother, and myself. Rita has stayed with my family for many years and has helped raise my brother and myself. She has become more my family than a nanny.
Though she found jobs quite quickly through being a nanny for Karen and then for the McGurk family; Rita still had many struggles and hardships that she had to go through. The language barrier was the hardest to conquer. Rita didnt speak the English language and
McGurk 2this made it very difficult to communicate with Malinda and figure out what Malinda needed to get done. Rita decided she needed a translation dictionary, pocket size, and she started looking up the words that she needed to communicate and showed them to Malinda and thats who Rita began to communicate with the family. Rita took the translation book every where she went so she could always have a way to address what she needed. It took Rita 6 months to learn the English language and she began