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[laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=0.0,2.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: No, it's okay. We're going to just save the audio. So [laughs] it'll be fine. And you look fine. So today's date is October 13th, 2020. My name is Obden Mondesir. I'm collecting this oral history for the Queens College, Special Collections and archives, as well as Queens Memory on the COVID 19, but as well as the SEEK Program I am with Tara, could you say your first and last name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2.0,31.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: My name is Tara Boodoo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=31.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Could you spell your first and last name please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=34.0,37.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure. First name Tara, T-A-R-A, last name do B-O-O-D-O-O.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=37.0,46.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: What year were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=46.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: 1974.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=47.0,50.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay. And could you tell me about the first neighborhood that you grew up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=50.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: The first neighborhood that I grew up in that I have memory memories of Hmm. Would have been Brooklyn. I lived there until I was about six. We rented an apartment in a private house with myself and my mom and spent a lot of time with my God brothers and God sister. And those are my first memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=57.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: What neighborhood in Brooklyn was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=94.0,98.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I don't remember. That's a good question. It was a down near Nostrand and I lived on Rogers Avenue. I remember that.[laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=98.0,109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: So, by Nostrand and Rogers, those streets are parallel to each other. So either in Crown Heights or Eastern Parkway? Sorry, Crown Heights or a Flatbush?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=109.0,119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I think near Flatbush.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=119.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay. And I guess you said you were there until six. What do you remember about that or what happened afterwards?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=120.0,129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I don't remember a whole lot, actually. The what I, okay. What the major memory I have there was my mom was at work and I was with my caretakers, my family, like my god brothers and my god sister. And there was a shooting like right up the block and my mother was panicked and she decided it was time to move. That was like a big kind of-- and that's really the main memory I have, aside from going to kindergarten there. And, it being a small school and, that's really all I remember there. And most of my memories are after that, when I moved to Corona. Cause I spent really from second grade-- I spent a short period of time after Brooklyn in College Point Queens for about one year. And then we moved to Corona and from second grade until I was married, close to 30 we lived in Corona.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=129.0,196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And what were your earlier memories of like living in Corona, and what was it like over there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=196.0,204.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Those are kind of your stereotypical memories, hanging out on the block and playing with the neighbors, stickball and eating lemon ices in the summer and staying out and playing until it was dark, when the street light came in and you had to come home. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=204.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And I guess you mentioned that you did second grade moving forward in Corona. And so could you tell me about the elementary school that you went to in Corona?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=228.0,242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure. I went to the local elementary school, P.S 14 and I went there from second grade to fifth grade. I remember a few of my teachers, and I remember being in plays, and I remember the programs that were offered at the school, and walking home with friends, and things along those lines. And really they were memories that I felt for the most part comfortable, safe in the environment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=242.0,289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: So you were in P.S 14, I guess. How would you describe the demographics of your neighborhood in the 1980s?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=289.0,299.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: It was actually pretty mixed. There was an Italian population, a large Hispanic population, and some Island and Asian population. Like the Caribbean Islands and some Asian. I think that was, that's sums that up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=299.0,326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And like, what do you remember your neighbors being like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=326.0,329.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Demographically or?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=329.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Like on a personal level?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=330.0,332.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: They were, they seemed nice enough. There was one neighbor that would kind of keep an eye on me cause I came home and I was alone because my mom was a single mom working. And they'd kind of check in on me or I'd stop in and see them and then go home. I had, I guess, there were a lot of school kids on the block, so it was kind of like that group that I would walk with and see, and kind of hang with a little bit and then go in and-- Oh and Greek there were a handful of Greek students also and neighbors. What else, what am I missing? Anything particular you were?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=332.0,382.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: I mean, I guess I just, I would love to hear more about what it was like going to school for you. I guess if you could tell me more about your mother and how she found herself in Brooklyn and just in New York, that would also be great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=382.0,400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So my mom's from Trinidad and my dad was in the U.S Navy and that's how they met. And at that time he had route here and that's how she landed in that area of Brooklyn. It was really just because she had left Trinidad and she didn't know anyone. So the next best thing was moving where his mom was and, a few of his friends, which were my God parents and their children. And that's really, what really brought her to Brooklyn. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=400.0,439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay. And then I guess after P.S 14, what school did you attend?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=439.0,444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I went to I.S 61, which is also in Corona. Actually right along the lines of LeFrak City. And that's where Miss Ukeles [laughter] was amongst a few others. And it's actually where I started, realizing the subjects I liked in school and the things that I had interest in because it hadn't really been greatly sparked yet. And the demographic was pretty similar. I had, friends that I would walk with from school and hang out with. Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=444.0,491.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. And so, and this is I.S 61, but like you mentioned Miss Ukeles and like we've had we just talked about her and like we had a conversation during the summer. Could you describe what we just discussed today? Like what's the significance of this person?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=491.0,514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So she was an English teacher and I honestly don't remember if she may have been a teacher I had previously, but I was really excited about English and writing and as I said, she was the teacher of 8A, which I was recommended for and she bumped me off to 8B because she just-- To my memory, I don't recall a reason for the change other than just kind of like, yeah, I don't think you really belong here. I don't think this is the right place for you. And not really understanding why and not really having anyone to advocate because there is actually a large African-American population in Corona and in LeFrak City. Which probably became more apparent, I think when I was in middle school maybe because we were in classes that mixed and moved as opposed to elementary school where you just stuck with one group all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=514.0,582.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And-- it felt like all my classes were really mixed demographically. I just felt like there was, cause I'm thinking of the friends that I had. It was myself, it was a Jewish girl, it was a Dominican girl, it was a Asian girl, it was two Spanish girls. And I want to say at least if I'm remembering right, three African-American girls. So we were a very mixed group and it just never-- like issues never came up, in terms of the racial inequality and all the things that are so obvious in our society now, and it was just such a different world because everybody was just together and everybody got along. And I don't know, maybe we were just young and naive that we never talked about it, or maybe we just hadn't experienced enough in life to understand what, our differences were that we didn't see them as weaknesses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=582.0,650.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: We didn't, I think I, I don't know if I mentioned this, but like my mother never explained to me what my cultural background was. So we never really put labels on ourselves as children, not at that point at least. And I think when it started happening was probably in later middle school where it was kind of like, well, where are you from? And it's just like, what do you mean, where am I from? I'm from New York, I was born in New York. And what do you mean? You know? And it's like, well no, where's your family from? And Trinidad was not a very well-known place at that time. It was still a very unknown region, I guess. And they would say, well, what are you? And I'd say, well I'm American and Indian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=650.0,698.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And it's like, oh, you're American Indian, you know? And then you would get the teases and the people would make fun and things like that. And not really understanding, it was really what the bottom line was because now we were to be defined, I guess, by some. And it was kind of like, well, what are you? And it's like, I don't fit any boxes because I'm a minority, but I have a white father, but I'm not fitting into anybody's square peg, you know? And it was kind of like, well, I really didn't know what to do with that. And I really didn't understand how to respond to a lot of it. And, kids can be mean, I had some, some kids calling me Oreo and, Navajo and Pocahontas, but it was not being done in a very kind way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=698.0,751.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And I think that's when kids can be cruel at that age, you know? And I think that's when I started to realize I got some problems I need to figure out, and I came home and I had a conversation with my mom and I'm like, look I don't really, I don't understand. And she was like, what are you talking about? Like, it never occurred to her that she needed to define that to me, you know? It's like, why does it matter? And I have gone through life up until that point, obliviously thinking, it didn't matter, you know? And then it was like, well, I don't know what I am. I don't know who I am, and you need to help me figure this out. So that's when she sat me down and she kind of explained some stuff, but like, Trinidad country that is predominantly indian and black, I mean, you have some other mixtures in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=751.0,798.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: You have some Hispanic, you have some Asian, but again, growing up, it was like, I would go visit family and everybody got along. Like I have, cousins that are black and I appear Indian, and we all got along. We all spent time. We all hung out. We all went out and we never had issues, you know? And then it was just kind of like the slow awakening as we got older and realizing that there's more going on than we realize. The youth of, the innocence of youth, I guess you could say. And yeah, and then, I figured it out, okay. My father is European, he's Italian and my mother is West Indian. She's from Trinidad, and now I have a very clear understanding of who I am and where I'm, my roots come from. And I'm much more secure and comfortable with it because I guess I know. And I understand. But that also puts me in a hard position sometimes because again, still fit in anybody's boxes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=798.0,866.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Could you give an example of what do you mean by like being put in a hard position?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=866.0,875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: [laughs] So my dad's Italian, he's passed since but there are conversations that I would have with him. He just couldn't relate. It was kinda like we would have discussions, political discussions and, he'd give his opinion and I wouldn't agree with him and he would ask why, and I'd say, well, because, for me, it just seems inflammatory. For example, he was a Trump supporter. And I know politics, isn't the way to go, but it's a perfect example of it, of one of our conversations that we had through the years. And, he would say like, I think he's a great guy. He's going to do this and he's going to do that. And I was like, he's horrible, he's a racist, and he's a pig, and he's this and he's that. And he was like, how could you say that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=875.0,918.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And I'm like, \"how could you not, like what do you not see?\" Like I'm a woman. I can't support a candidate. Yes, he may stand for certain issues that I agree with religiously, but I can't support him blindly on one cause or two causes, you know? And I just don't know, you just don't understand, like, you don't know what it looks like to walk into a store and get looked up, cause your hair is not blonde or because your skin is darker than the people around you. You don't understand that, and while my interaction may be different from, let's say yours, it's not, we may not be exactly the same [unclear] viewed as quote unquote African-American, but I'm [unclear] because if I walk into, let's say a hair salon in Long Island, they take a step back and then they're just kind of not going on at first, and I felt a few times, so that's kind of what I mean, like just not really fitting the square peg in the round hole.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=918.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Hmm. Okay. And then I guess this is a very strong topic, but I like, it's something that we can continue with, but like moving forward in time. So you mentioned that, you have to talk to your mother about learning about your heritage and I guess, could you describe like your experiences from I.S 61 until you make it into college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=990.0,1026.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Let's see how, describe it in what way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1026.0,1029.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: I guess what high school did you go to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1029.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: To John Bowne--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1030.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Which is in Flushing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1030.0,1036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Flushing--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1036.0,1036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1036.0,1038.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Right behind Queens College, on Main.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1038.0,1039.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Oh okay yeah-- Yeah. What was, what was high school like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1039.0,1044.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: High school was a little bit of a challenge. Only because a few of those kids that gave me a hard time were there also, so that was a bit of a challenge and I pulled with that, but then I, still had a good group of friends and I managed to kind of stick with those friends and, make it through. It was, Hmm. I was in the co-op program there, which was where you worked one week and went to school one week for a period of time, which was kind of nice. Like I did, it's kind of like an internship program.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1044.0,1089.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: I guess this was a program that was active in the 1980s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1089.0,1091.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: 90's, Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1091.0,1095.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: In the 90's--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1095.0,1095.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Early 90's. I graduated in '92, so yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1095.0,1098.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1098.0,1099.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah. And it was, it was nice because it gave me a little bit of an insight into a business setting. It wasn't a good experience for me, but it was interesting. And actually ironically, the issue I had with the woman there was quite similar. She was an Italian woman and she was confused by me, by my exterior versus my, who I was as a person ethnically. So, I saw some challenges like that and, I guess you don't really realize you don't, until you sit and you unpack it you don't really realize how many experiences-- I've not realized how many experiences I've had like this until we're sitting and unpacking it, like looking back. And it was a challenge because I remember actually talking to my co-op supervisor and her saying that this woman had complaints on her because she didn't work well with other females, which was strange.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1099.0,1167.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: To me just as a person, I mean I just, I don't know. I couldn't understand that. I mean, I was, 16, 17 years old and here was this, what I thought was a great opportunity and it was just simply like she had a problem with the fact that I was, I don't know, a female and maybe it was a part of my background, my color of my skin, because again, I carried an Irish name from my father's side before I was married. So it was kind of like, why do you have this name? You don't look like you should have this name, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1167.0,1207.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Just for clarity, your father had an Irish name, but he was Italian or he was Irish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1207.0,1213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: He was mixed, but there's a little bit of a story behind that because he was adopted by his stepdad. So there's a mixture in his background. But his stepdad who adopted him had an Irish last name. He would, my dad was French, Italian, we think Norwegian and possibly Jewish, [laughs] which I only found out because my daughter had to do a history like an ancestry project about two years ago for school. And we were tracing some stuff back to Ellis Island. And we found out my grandmother's last name was Levy, L-E-V-Y Clara Levy. Helen Levy and her grandma, her mother's name was Clara. So we don't know for certain, but that was my grandmother's side, my dad's mother. Okay. Yeah. So but my dad's dad was Italian and growing up, my father just considered himself Italian and that's it, that's, he didn't really listen to anything else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1213.0,1286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So yeah. So, going back to the whole name thing, I just got a lot of stares because my maiden name was McLaughlin. So, I had, I actually had one person say to me once in one of my jobs. Oh, you're not what I expected. I expected freckles and red hair, like, there, but it's not, I mean, I know a lot of people that have the name of McLaughlin that aren't Irish, what I mean? Like, so I don't really so you might, you meet characters everywhere you go. And like I said, you don't realize until you sit and try to unpack this, how many interactions you've had with people where you've been judged, because your skin's different or your name's different, or, just because you're a female for that matter, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1286.0,1338.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And you, so where this was, you were talking about your experiences with this core program at John Bowne. And I guess from John Bowne, how did you decide, what did you what college did you attend?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1338.0,1357.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Okay, so I had great teachers at Bowne, by the way, I must say for the most part, I really, I felt very supported by them. And there are a few that stick out in my mind that I still remember, and they're not there anymore, but transitioning to college was, I didn't feel like there were a lot of options. And I know this is something that Norka had brought up about in one of the discussions. Like I ended up at a community college because I really just didn't know I had another option.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1357.0,1394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Would you say Norka's full name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1394.0,1397.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Professor Blackman-Richards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1397.0,1398.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1398.0,1399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sorry. That's how I refer to her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1399.0,1400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: No, it's fine. It's just like interviews. If someone were to listen to that, I don't want to be like Norka? So no, no, keep going forward. So you mentioned that Norka mentioned that there weren't a lot of options. So you went in--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1400.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: No one really came into our high school and spoke with us about, what options were viable, what, it was just kinda like here's this application. And again, it was before the digital age. So it just like here, fill this out. There was really not much from what I recall. There was really not much guidance or suggestion or, opportunity in terms of programs. I didn't even know the SEEK program existed and it would've been a great option to me back then, otherwise, I would have probably gone to a four-year college. So I applied, I think to Queens College, I applied to LaGuardia Community College. And I forget where else, but I maybe Queensborough, but I know a lot of it had to do with proximity and money because coming from a single parent home, I had to pay for college myself. So I was working in putting myself through school. And LaGuardia was the only one that accepted me and that's where I went, you know? And I did finish my associates degree there and they had a really good requirement at that time where you had to work an internship in order to graduate. And that landed me my first real job in life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1413.0,1503.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And could you tell me what the internship was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1503.0,1509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure. It was at a publishing company, which is very well known for not, welcoming minorities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1509.0,1520.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: I-- do you mind, what was the name of the publishing company?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1520.0,1520.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I always, say that again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1520.0,1523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: What was the name of the publishing company?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1523.0,1525.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: It's not around anymore, but it was AMACOM-- A-M-A-C-O-M. So there's a training organization named American Management Association and they are still around. They had a very, they had a small publishing division and my advisor knew how I enjoyed reading and writing and just being around anything related to books and she's felt it was a great opportunity. And initially I said to her, I don't really want to do this because I had such a bad experience in the last office setting that I worked in. And she said, you should give this a try. I think it'd be a good fit for you. And I did, and I ended up getting a job there and I worked there for about 13 years until I got laid off. And I think it's probably next to education. The thing that I enjoyed most. [laughs] So I started as an Intern and I worked my way up to an Assistant Manager in marketing there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1525.0,1603.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And I guess you worked there until, from '96, until 2009?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1603.0,1610.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: About that. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1610.0,1611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Wow-- Okay. And I think could you tell me from there, how did you find yourself working at SEEK?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1611.0,1627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So I got laid off of this job that I really was in love with--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1627.0,1632.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And this is with AMACOM right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1632.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: This is up with AMACOM, yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1634.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1636.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And I found myself really broken because I never finished my degree. I had my associates, but I never went any further. And just to get the jobs that I had required, my bachelor's just to apply for the job that I was already holding with-- Another company would require my bachelor's and I decided, well you know what, if I'm going back to school, I'm going back to school for what I really love, which is education. And I did my bachelor's in psychology at Queens College. And then I did my masters, which I'm almost done with in elementary education, also at Queens College. And while I was there, I knew someone that worked for SEEK and she suggested I apply and that was it while I was I think it was around the time I started my master's was maybe a year or so later I started working for SEEK and I've been there since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1636.0,1707.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: So that means that brings you at SEEK in 2000 and--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1707.0,1712.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: What are we in 20, maybe 16. I went part-time [laughs] for quite a while. I went part-time yeah. Cause I do have two kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1712.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay, and yeah, and I guess like tell me what it was like joining SEEK in 2016?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1723.0,1729.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: It was amazing because it was a very different experience for me. It gave me a sense of purpose if you will to be in an environment where I was doing something for a greater good I was giving back. And that's ultimately what has been most important to me. I think when I look back at my life, it's just, I've done a lot of things that I've enjoyed, through the years, but I really, really, really, my heart is in education especially with children, but I'll tell you honestly, and I've told this to Professor Blackman-Richards as well. I did not expect to enjoy working with the college age population. I really didn't because I've always had a love for children. And that's always where my heart has been with younger kids in elementary school age, and coming into the program and interacting with the college students and just sharing with them, being around them, helping them really just made a difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1729.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: It made me feel like I was doing something worth while because our students are not the average student. They don't have things handed to them on a silver platter. They have to work harder for it. The SEEK population that comes in demographically. Right? They have to struggle more, they need a little more assistance. They lead a little more stepping up, helping up. Right? And that's what SEEK does for them. It's not just a handout, it's a help out, right. It's a help up. And I think that's been my greatest joy in being apart of SEEK is knowing that I'm giving back to communities that matter, because so many of these people that are in our program, wouldn't probably even go to college. If they didn't have the help from SEEK, it would be an opportunity for them. They wouldn't go and being a part of something which gives back to them is so something I enjoy, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1800.0,1864.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And before we continue, could you describe your role and position at SEEK?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1864.0,1870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure. So my title is Tutoring Specialist. My day-to-day role really is-- I'm going to ask you to hold on one second. Okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1870.0,1879.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Alright, no problem. I'll pause the recording.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1879.0,1881.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1881.0,1885.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: All right. Ready.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1885.0,1887.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So yeah, I manage the learning center, which is the SEEK Tutoring Center. And there's anywhere from, 10 right now we have 9 tutors, but we've had up to about 15 to 17 tutors. And it's just really managing day-to-day operations of it. But what that means is, well, prior to COVID, it meant students coming in and sitting and talking and, looking for assistance with their classes and, getting to know them because they come in every semester and every time they need something, they come in and they say, Hey, I can't make it. Or, I need to change or can I reschedule or whatever. And it was just a constant ongoing in and out with the students and with the tutors and you get to know them and you get to the tutors themselves in the Learning Center become like their own little family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1887.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: You see each other most days, you spend a lot of hours together, like any other job, right. You become your own little family unit. And yeah. So there's that element of it, which is the tutors, which are students at Queens College. Once in a while we have a student that's not a SEEK student working as a tutor, but the majority of the time they are SEEK students who do well and are able to come in and tutor. And then you have the second layer, which is the students that are coming in, that you get to know every semester that are coming in and, they'll chat and they'll tell you about their day or sometimes what's going on in their life. And sometimes it's tough, and, you learn about the different things that they go through culturally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1946.0,1995.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Because a lot of the students are first-generation or second-generation students coming from different countries. Right. So you hear a lot of stories about how difficult it is to assimilate to a new culture in a new country. A lot of them English is not their first language because of that. And sometimes the parents don't speak English and sometimes a lot of times the parents are not able to be as actively involved in their education because they don't understand the system.. or they don't speak the language and they don't know how so, what they'll tend to do is they'll tend to come in and just throw out whatever's going on at that time, whether it's with a class, or personally, or different things, that they may be dealing with, and sometimes you can help. And sometimes you have to say, okay, what? This is kind of out of my area. I have to really refer you to your counselor and things like that. But it's really a sense of family, working for SEEK. And I think that's the beauty of the program. Is there, is that kind of family? I don't know how else to describe it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=1995.0,2075.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: I guess, could you-- you mentioned that like before COVID that, like, this is what it was like on a day-to-day basis. I guess like, if we're thinking about you started there at 2016, we're now in 2020. And could you describe I guess I want to talk about leading up to COVID. So like if you can imagine or remember what it was like in the beginning of 2020 what do you remember hearing about the virus? In the beginning?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2075.0,2115.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Okay. Let's see. I just remember hearing that there was a sickness in China that they were concerned was going to be an issue in the United States, kind of along the lines of swine flu. If I'm not mistaken, it was compared to that in the beginning. I remember hearing and then just, the murmuring of, how this could potentially become an issue for us in this country and possibly having to control the borders and controlled what's important in the country. And, it was still pretty much business as usual, life as usual for the most part at the beginning of the year. And then it was just kind of like, Hmm, I wonder, what's really going to happen. And kind of saying, eh, it'll be fine. We made it through the other stuff. Whoever thought there'd be a pandemic right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2115.0,2172.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Forget about it. You say, okay, say not pandemic, maybe no, this is like you, we wouldn't have seen it coming. You know? And the irony is my husband and my mom were very, very ill in January, January, not knowing what was going on, not knowing what was coming. And looking back now, they have tested, we've all tested positive in our home, all the adults for the antibodies. So we know we had it. But we believe that we, that they had it in January and not knowing what it was because nobody knew at that point, what was really expected. And then, you fast forward a little bit, we got to March when everything was shut down. Right. And we talked about how we didn't know what was going on, but the students knew what was going on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2172.0,2236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: The tutors were coming in and saying, Hey, what's going on? We're closed. What's happening. You know? And it was like, no, we haven't gotten any word. We don't know anything yet. What are you talking about? The mayor? The governor said it in, it was on Twitter. And it was, the president said this and the governor said that, and the mayor said this, and it's like, okay, hold on. We gotta wait until we get the information from the right sources. But, you're trying to do things the right way by the book. And then, there's an online world out there that you have no control over, you know? And as, the tutors were, and the students were aware before administration was aware of what was going on, mainly because we're working. Right. And the students are probably always on their electronics and, they're checking what's happening in the world. Right. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2236.0,2288.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And what do you remember feeling at the moment that like this moment where you found out the CUNY would be shutting down?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2288.0,2303.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So, Hmm. That's a good question. We didn't, we could not have at all foreseen what this would be. We thought we were going to go home for a few days, maybe a few weeks. We actually, I left on, I think it was that Thursday. And then we got the message that Friday that we were-- there was talk about it on the Thursday. And I remember leaving work and telling the tutors, as soon as I know, I'll share the information with you. And then I believe, I don't know if was that Thursday evening, Professor Blackman-Richards held a meeting and I wasn't there because I had to leave. And it was later in the day. And then I think my mind is a little fuzzy if it was that evening or that Friday, we were told that's it we're staying home because we-- Oh that we were initially deemed essential employees and told that we were going to still have to come in, even though classes would be online.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2303.0,2376.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And that was a little bit concerning because if there were no students on campus, no teachers on campus, what were we going to do to service them if we were on campus. Right. And it was kind of like this gray area of, well, where do, what are we going to do? Where is it going to be? But then I believe Professor Blackman-Richards basically said, if it's not safe for others, it's not safe for us. And we were told that we would be working from home until further notice. And the unfortunate thing is we didn't get to go back and retrieve materials because everything was shut down because there was, I think I am, I know one, and I'm not sure if there were two cases that were in the building that we worked in Delaney Hall. And that was what the initial concern was. How are they going to clean this and have us back to work the next day? So, because I think that was part of the essential employee part of it, like, yes, we're essential, but she was saying, how are they going to get this cleaned up in time? And how can they guarantee our safety?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2376.0,2443.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And and this was during the time, very early on where we didn't know the, I guess this is the pathology of the disease, how it went from person to person and like, how long did it stay on items and all of that stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2443.0,2457.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Right--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2457.0,2458.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2458.0,2458.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Right. Yeah. And I, and obviously we still don't know a lot. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2458.0,2464.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. Yeah. So there are those memories and in regards to preparing to stay at home what do you remember that experience being like? I guess an example I can provide is once I realized that things would be shutting down in a particular way, the biggest fear or the most important thing was I did a ton of shopping for food because there's this, like, it wasn't like, I didn't, it that I thought food was going to run out. It was just like, you wanted to mitigate how often you had to go shopping.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2464.0,2498.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2498.0,2498.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. Did you have the same experience?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2498.0,2502.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yes. Well, Hmm let's, should we talk about the work part of the personal part first?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2502.0,2512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Whichever you prefer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2512.0,2514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: The work part was a challenge because it was more like how are we going to service the students and get them what they need? Because we had that week where we were recalibrating and we had to get everything online and we did have some stuff online, but not everything. And it was like, okay, how are we going to do this without access to files, without access to certain documents and things along those lines, and, really working towards reaching the students, right? Because this was a stressful period for everybody. And we saw, people really go into some challenging places emotionally and mentally, right. Because a lot of students didn't want to come back. A lot of students didn't want to go into online tutoring. A lot of-- the tutors did really well. I must say they really jumped on board.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2514.0,2562.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: They were, ready to roll with helping the students, but it was a challenge. A lot of the students just didn't want to come to the online sessions. So it was kind of like, how do we reach them and let them know that they're going to still be supported? So that was that part-- along with getting everything online for them, the services prepared and ready to run, so there was that. And then there was the home element, right. I have two children, I have a mom and a stepfather who are seniors. My stepdad is a stroke patient and a heart patient. My mom is, she supports and helps me, with the kids. Well, when I say support, I mean like physical support, like with logistics and things like that. And then she also has her husband, so it was like, okay, how are we going to get everything done for everybody?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2562.0,2617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Because I'm the only one that drives. When is here, right. He's not always here cause he's also a military person. He's so that was a challenge too, because his job requires him to go. He goes, there's no negotiating that, that's what he does. That's his role. Right. Which means that I've got to kind of juggle it all home. And it was like, okay, so how are we going to do this? And then not wanting my mom outside because I don't want her to get sick. Not knowing that she had already had this. Yeah, because she actually, when they tested her for the antibodies, she had it, she had them, and being concerned for everybody's safety. And as you said, going to the store and there was no toilet paper and, all these things, you couldn't get water, you couldn't get toilet paper. You still can't get a lot of stuff. Right. So that was a challenge, staying on top of everything, making sure everybody has what they need. And then there was this big issue that I had. We got shut down that Friday. I think I was sick that next week. So that was another issue because I was, how am I supposed to do this? Take care of everybody. And I'm laid up in bed and I had it really bad. I was in bed for almost three weeks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2617.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And you, that, you're pretty sure that was COVID.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2700.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2704.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2704.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I went to, my doctor would not see me because they were only taking, they were doing tele, whatever--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2704.0,2714.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Commuting tele--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2714.0,2718.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: They were only seeing patients over the phone via kind of like this. Right. Okay. And I call my primary care and there were three different occasions. I had to call him. And on all three occasions, he said to me, if you're not well, and you can't breathe, you need to go to an emergency room. And I was not interested. So I went to Urgent Care and I had every classic symptom from beginning to end. And that was a challenge because now it was like, okay, well, how am I going to do what everybody needs me to do if I'm not well, and I will honestly tell you, the first week I managed, I worked, I stayed on top of all of my work responsibilities and what I had to do, but I stayed home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2718.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: We had to, we had to kind of really work on scheduling so that my husband could bring the things that he needed to, we needed while he was able time-wise with his job and, kind of really schedule everything. But that second week, was it? I just, by the end of the first week and into the second week, it was just getting progressively worse. I was having trouble breathing. I was having, I had high fever and, I couldn't smell, I couldn't taste, I wouldn't eat, I couldn't get out of bed. It was really real for me. It was really bad. I'm thankful that I didn't go to the hospital and I made it through. Thank God. But It was scary negotiating it all because it was like, well, what do you do? What is the right thing to do? Stay holed up in a room with, children and everybody around, but, you don't know what's going to happen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2764.0,2825.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. And I guess, what was the process that your family had to go through to make sure that you were like, well, quarantined and everyone will say, okay, do you remember that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2825.0,2838.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah, it was not an easy one, but I stayed in my room. We used whatever, sanitizing wipes we had. Cleaning everything, the bathroom, the door handles Lysol spray. Every time you turn around, we did our best with it, but my daughter still ended up sick. She missed about two weeks of school, which wasn't great. She lost smell and taste and she was very, very tired, but thank God. It didn't really go much more than further than that, a little bit of congestion. And it, I mean, our home is really more like set up like an apartment. So there's really one bathroom that we're sharing, so you can't really get away from it. My bedroom door while it was closed, my kid's door is right next to it. The way the layout is. So there's really not much space or separation. It's not like I can quarantine on a separate floor or anything like that. It just the layout, didn't, it wasn't a possibility. So even though I was quote unquote quarantined in my room, I mean, you open the door, it's airborne, right? So much Lysol can do, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2838.0,2932.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. And I guess after you were able to get on the brighter side of the virus what happened then? What was like--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2932.0,2946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: That had some challenges also because being in bed for that length of time really affected me physically. I will have some issues now with my back because I think just laying for that period of time and being ill and, probably, just not moving. I feel like my back got very stiff. I'm still going to the doctor and dealing with that. I have some issues with that. My breathing is still not a hundred percent. I can't exercise the way that I used to. I have to I still get winded going up and down the steps, a flight of steps which wasn't really the case before this. And of course I've put on weight because I'm not really exercising or, I can't move around the way I used to. I think those are probably the biggest carry overs from having the virus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=2946.0,3018.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay. And then that was you would say you got over the virus in April?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=3018.0,3026.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=3026.0,3026.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay. Well, okay. That, that's good to know. So Tara, I'm going to have to stop right there just because I have a meeting at 4:30, so I'm going to stop the recording.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=3026.0,3041.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031/transcript/48757/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204031#t=3041.0,3042.24"}]}]},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - Boodoo__Tara_PT2.mp4"]},"duration":1904.48,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/204/032/small/Boodoo_tara.png?1691520619","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-queenslibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/204/032/original/Boodoo__Tara_PT2.mp4?1691520531","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1904.48,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Full Transcript - October 29, 2020 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: It's computer recording. So today's date is October 29th 2020 it's, 11:33. My name is Obden Mondesir. I am with Tara Boodoo collecting this oral history for the SEEK Oral History Project, as well as COVID-19 project for Queens Memory. And when we last spoke on October 16th the last thing that you talked about was dealing with you actually contracting COVID and you mentioned that the first week was okay and you were able to work, but the second week you were very sick and I guess the last thing you talked about was your doubt, your daughter contracting the virus as well. So could you tell me what that experience was like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=0.0,51.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So that was obviously a challenge also because she's in high school and it meant that she was home and she was missing a lot of work. Well, no, I'm sorry. She was, they were online already at that point, I believe, but she wasn't able to physically do a lot of the things that she normally does. She her only her primary symptoms were loss of taste, loss of smell, but she was very, very exhausted, very tired, very lethargic. She really didn't have much of a fever. It was just hard for her to keep up with things. So she spent a lot of time in bed also. So that was a bit of a challenge because I was just coming around myself, and taking care of her. We were fortunate that our little one really, if he had it, he really didn't display much symptom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=51.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: We actually were thinking in February when they got sick right before the mid-winter recess that they may have had it because they had horrible fevers, horrible coughs. And at that time we really didn't know much, as of yet I did take him to the doctor because the fevers were still high and the doctor said, \"it's just the virus. It's gotta run its course, like every virus and just keep an eye on him,\" you know? So we're not really sure, but we can say for sure with her that she had lost smell, she had lost taste and she was very, very exhausted. So that impacted her school work that impacted her ability to just function. And once she came past it, she seems to be back to herself. We don't really seem to see anything residual with her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=110.0,162.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: But obviously as a parent, you worry, oh my gosh, make sure they're breathing. Okay. Make sure that, nothing else is going on with the lungs and constantly saying, how's your head, how's your chest, how's your throat? You know, do you feel anything in your chest? Are you feeling like you can't breathe? And I think more, the worry of that part was more stressful than anything else, you know? Cause it was kind of like, okay, I'm going on the back burner now I'll figure out my healing, but I need to know my kid is okay, more along those lines. So but, she managed to pull it together at the end and get her school work done and passed all her classes did well for the most part. And yeah, that's pretty much that chapter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=162.0,207.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Oh, I can't hear you're muted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=207.0,208.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: So, with that experience and so by the time she got better what month were we in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=208.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I think that was probably April. Was that April or May? Somewhere around there. April or May. I'm not sure off the top of my head. I'm sure if I think I can retrack it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=221.0,234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And with that experience as a parent did that like, did I empathy transferred to your experience working at SEEK, and like what were some of the things that you were experiencing around that time with the tutors and the students that you're working with?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=234.0,254.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah. Definitely, at the end of the day, I always feel that, I treat the students who are-- the tutors who are students, I will treat them the way I would want my child to be treated. And they always say, I'm kind of like the nurturing mom of the group there. But we had a student-- tutors, excuse me, that weren't feeling well, but we didn't have-- and to my knowledge, none of them actually stated that they actually had the virus. I think there was one who said, she thought she did. And we had two that were really getting anxious over it. And, we had to look for assistance for them in terms of their mental health. And that was a bit of a challenge just because, you worry at the end of the day, these-- and one of them actually was a student that was here on a student visa from another country and had no family with her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=254.0,324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So that was more of a concern because she was alone, making sure that, she knew that she wasn't truly alone. There were people that were here looking out for her and supporting her. And we were checking in on her. And she was very challenged by it because I don't think she got sick to my knowledge, but she was very worried. She had an experience walking from the grocery store one day where someone coughed and I think she kind of pulled back and they said something really nasty to her, very derogatory. And she was fearful after that to do things by herself. She didn't want to leave the house. [unclear] She rented a space with a group of girls from Queens College, and she was very fearful of doing things alone. She kind of holds up in the house because she didn't want to deal with going out in public and, being near anybody for fear of the virus, but also from fear of I guess anybody, potentially saying or doing something that would scare her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=324.0,393.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So that was a worry, making sure that, obviously there, we can only reach so far, right. Our scope of reaches, but so far, but making sure that she at least is pointed in the right direction to get the help she needs and making sure that, she feels supported and someone cares, that she's not alone even though her family is in another country. The other students, he just, the other tutor got a little bit withdrawn, but he managed to fulfill all his duties. He was responsible through it in spite of the fact that he was worrying a lot. He also had a death in the family, I think a week or two before we were shut down. So it was really kind of like a double hit for him. And he felt very isolated and alone and the same kind of thing, just checking in regularly, making sure that he was okay knowing that, who were there myself and the team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=393.0,448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And I have to say for the most part, we did a weekly check-in for the summit. Actually we did twice a week because we wanted to make sure the ones who could make one day could make the other, just to check in with them and make sure that they were okay, make sure that they showed their face, had a conversation. Hey, how are you? You know, what's going on? Do you need anything? Is there anything that SEEK or Queens College can do to assist, making sure that they knew about the services and the pantry and all the different things that were available to them? So definitely making sure that they were supported was a priority, and like I said, I treat those around. I treat everybody the way I would like to be treated, which they're young kids, they're all in their late teens, early twenties.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=448.0,500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And, there's a level of let's, how should I say it? Responsibility that goes with the role, I think because you have to have compassion and you have to care because, if they're not okay, emotionally, mentally, or they're struggling in some way overwhelmed, they can't do the job, they can't do the job, you know? And at the end of the day, the job is important because it supports the students, but the tutors are students too. And I always would tell them, your students, your people first, and, you do your best and, we make-- We figure it out. You know, if there's an issue that we need to figure out. But as I said for the most part, I think they all were pretty-- They dealt with it very well. You know, there was a lot of shifting. As we went, we had that recalibration period where we had to get everything online. So that was a lot, because we really just had one week to really just shift everything, and in areas that we hadn't been fully operating in, we had been online in terms of a lot of our documentation, which was great for working from home, but it was a challenge to get virtual tutoring setup because we, we had to visit a few platforms before we found something that really kind of flowed well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=500.0,593.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And what was the platform that you eventually chose?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=593.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: We went with Google Classroom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=596.0,598.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Okay--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=598.0,599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah. That's where we ended up. We had tried to do some stuff with some of the other systems we were working with prior and it just didn't have the capability that was necessary. So we ended up landing with Google Classroom and that's what we're still using at this point. We do use Zoom sometimes since it was approved. But I try to encourage the tutors to stick with Google Classroom because it's the safest. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=599.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And so we're discussing, the experiences that the students are going through in regards to like the pandemic. And like there are transitions. And then, like you mentioned that your daughter may have been sick between the months of April and May. And like what happens on May 25th is that George Floyd is murdered by the police and like that sparks a ton of protests. And also like, there's a lot of reverberation among like academia, politics, and like multiple institutions. So like, what do you remember in regards to hearing about the death of George Floyd? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=631.0,685.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And like, yeah. So what were your emotions? And then also, how was that, how did I go into, work in regards to the students and like the people that you're working with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=685.0,698.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah. That was really, really a heartbreaking situation, for lack of a better way to describe it. Just hearing, it's not even coldness the lack of regard for a human life. It still makes me choke up to think about it. The image that was shown of that police officer's knee on that man's neck. I can't get that out of my head. When I think about it, I still choke up because it's a disregard for human life and it's just not okay at all. It actually happened when our semester was pretty close to over. So there wasn't a lot of interaction with the tutors, but we did have a few kind of, check-ins just, how are you all doing? You know, how are you all managing? And it really, there was very-- there was a little conversation about it, but there wasn't a lot. And I think a lot of it had to do with timing, unfortunately, because the center and the tutors don't really work after the semester ends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=698.0,788.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: But I do remember we did a few check-ins just to see how everybody was doing. And a lot of the, there wasn't a lot of conversation about it at that point. It was just kind of like, do you believe the madness that's going on in this day and age? You know, do you believe that this is still happening? And then it would just kind of like everybody would kind of say something and that was really it, there wasn't a long discussion, but we did. I know Mr.[phonetic], Marsha and I were reaching out just to say, Hey, are you okay? How are you doing? Do you need anything? But it really didn't get much further than that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=788.0,826.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: It's just, I mean, there are no words to describe, I mean, I found myself having conversations with my children that just hurt my heart, that we're still having these conversations, and I-- I do think that one thing that I'm glad for is the social media. This is the one time I can say I was happy about having such a quick handed social media, because like the sad reality is a lot of this is happening and people just don't know about it. But I think with social media, it's brought to the forefront instantly. There is no hiding. There is no pretending it's there. People see it, people are recording and people are sharing it, which may fan the flames. But at the same time, it has to bring it to the forefront so that people can acknowledge it. You can't acknowledge, you can't fix what you don't acknowledge is a problem. Right. [sigh] Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=826.0,885.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And what was it like? So you talked about the experience with the students and what was it like discussing it with other colleagues within SEEK?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=885.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Well, we started this conversation, right? That's hard to answer. I mean, I think I tried to listen more than I spoke because I think as you've known to these discussions, I feel like I'm a little bit stuck in the middle of a lot of things in terms of my background. Because even though I felt certain things, even those things have been said to me, names have been called I don't think my experience is going to be exactly the same as yours or an African-American person's right. It's still, it's not on the same level. Right. I might go in a store and I might get the looks if I'm in a certain kind of neighborhood, but then like, that may be all, it may be, whereas some fun with another friend of mine, they might walk with us through the store and kind of keep an eye on us, you know what I mean? Like I recognize that it's not across the board the same for all of us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=898.0,966.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So I did listen a lot. I think when I said things, I was trying to be careful because I didn't want to be insensitive in sharing my opinion, or offend anyone for that matter, because sometimes you don't realize how something may come across with someone until they respond to it. And you're like, wait a minute. That's I remember there was one person. I don't remember what I said, but I remember giving my opinion and one person kind of responding and I thought, oh, I hope that's not how she thought I meant it. You know? And it is a challenge because you want to be true to who you are, but I, at the end of the day, I never want to, offend or make anybody feel that their opinion or their feelings are invalid or less than mine.You're muted again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=966.0,1028.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Oh, I know. I said I was like, Hmm. Okay. And what I, like, there were also the protests that were happening around the same time, so which like hit like a fervid pitch during the summers. So do you have any firsthand experience with that or any thoughts around that as well?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1028.0,1054.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I was very surprised because I think we talked about it. I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Queens my entire life. And I only moved to the town that I'm in now in Long Island in the last, maybe few years, it hasn't even been five years. And it is predominantly a white demographic, but I was pleasantly surprised at how many people were taking part in the protests because they were having them locally in our neighborhood. I did not go because of COVID and everything that's going on, but I did kind of stand to the back of the park because there's actually a park about two blocks away from where I live that I don't, I think they started somewhere else. And they ended at this park near where we live and we just kind of stayed back and I thought, how beautiful it was that so many people were actually attending the protest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1054.0,1113.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And there were people of all colors. There weren't just, white, they weren't just black. You could see that it was a real mixture of people. And I thought that that was great because they had blocked off areas of the Southern State Parkway. They had blocked off areas of route 110, which are surrounding areas near me and I'm traffic couldn't get by, and it was nice. It was nice to see the involvement and that it was coming from all walks of life. It wasn't a one-sided kind of thing. And I think that was heartwarming in a way, because it meant that people did care. It meant that people were looking past just race, and looking past the fact of what it, not just what it was, but seeing this more as an issue of humanity, and that was something that I was glad to be able to witness. And like I said watching his Memorial on TV with my kids and, having those conversations because it was over the summer, it was more of a personal experience with them cause I wasn't working. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1113.0,1185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And what neighborhood do you live in within Long Island?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1185.0,1189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Now? I'm in Farmingdale.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1189.0,1195.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: And all right. Yeah, that was, I mean, that was like kind of the beginning of the summer and like I know that a lot happened, but we have like seven minutes and I do want to-- I guess get your experiences on two things which was, the first being, could you describe what's it been like having your kids returned to school at the time? Like yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1195.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1228.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah, now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1228.0,1229.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yes, okay. So we didn't really know what the game plan was going to be until the last minute, like the rest of New York. I think for the most part, we had some idea of what the proposed plans would be, but we really didn't know until it really at the end. So my son is in fifth grade and initially he went back every other day. He alternated days and the days he was home, he was remote learning for two weeks because they were waiting for dividers, some kind of dividers plexiglass to come in and be installed. But I'm not really sure how that works because now they're fully in class five days a week. I know some students are remote, but my son goes every day. We felt it was important for the social part of it, and the academic part of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1229.0,1293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I just really think it's important for them to be in the presence of others. I think that it's a challenge with this virus because even though we have had it in our household, we don't know if it can be, it said that it can be contracted again and spread again, but we don't, nobody knows right? But he's happy to be back. He's happy to be around his friends. And so much of academia is a social experience because of the interaction on every level from the youngest to the eldest, in my opinion. My high schooler is in 11th grade, she has been remote-- oh, I should back up, there was a confirmed case in my son's class. And he had to quarantine for two weeks at home and he was on remote learning as well. Which was a challenge because who can sit in front of a computer for seven hours straight right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1293.0,1351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: So that was challenging for him to focus and he was getting headaches and things like that. But, he did his time, the Health Department checked in every day. We got a a phone call initially, and then we were given the option to check in daily, either via text or via phone call, which I did text. And every day we got, excuse me, a text. And it was just a one question, are you experiencing any symptoms? And I want to say about a third of the way through, he started to get congested and running. And we were like, uh-oh, what's happening? So we monitored, he had no fever, he had no other symptoms. And then I realized it might be as allergies and we treated his allergies and he was fine. So thank God that was that. And then, but I did report those symptoms just because I didn't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1351.0,1405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Someone did reach out to me and he did his time. He was fine. And we got a letter from the Health Department releasing him, and then he was able to go back to school. He couldn't go back to school without that. And that was his experience with back to school. So he doesn't like being home. He's very happy to be back. Okay. My high schooler in 11th grade, she has been remote. There've been, I think, three cases in her school so far. And I think they've only shut down for one day. They've been able to trace it and treat it, I guess I don't fully know how, but they were able to take care of what they had to do and have them back the next day. Today is Thursday. So Tuesday night we got a phone call from the district saying that there's one high school, there's one middle school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1405.0,1460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: And I think there are four elementary schools in our school district. And they said that the high school, the middle school, and one of the elementary schools were shut and that they would reach out to us and give us more information the next day, which was yesterday. So we were told that a bus was infected and I guess someone tested positive, maybe the bus driver. They didn't say I'm guessing that only because they took the bus out of service and then they were treating surrounding areas. I'm not sure what that meant. There's a lot of trust that we have to allow in these situations--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1460.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1500.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: We're hoping that it's being dealt with the way it's supposed to. Because she happened to be home. They happened to be closed on the day that she was supposed to be physically in school. So she was remote the day before. She was home with the, waiting for the information yesterday. And then today she's remote again and she goes back tomorrow. So they alternate every other day. She's not happy. She doesn't like it. Especially at this age, teenagers want to be with their friends. They don't want to be with there family as much. So she's missing that, this year is supposed to be junior prom and, all these fun things that they're just not getting to do, there are no afterschool activities to participate in. So in that sense everybody's doing what they have to do, but everybody's not thrilled.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1500.0,1554.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. And as we have just about like five minutes left--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1554.0,1559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1559.0,1559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: So in the beginning of this conversation, before we started recording, we talked about the election, considering that November 3rd is when that's Election Day. I guess this is a really good segue of one, I guess. How, what do you see in the next few months for, and sorry for this being a double-barreled question, but for like one for the country and then two for like, SEEK moving forward, like what are the things that you're thinking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1559.0,1597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: That is a very, very difficult question. I see that there's going to be a lot of unrest, whichever way it goes. It seems as if Trump is going to be a shoo-in. And I'm not honestly fond of either candidate. I found myself very, very challenged as I have in the past, but never as challenged as this on voting. And part of it is because I have my personal religious views, but then I also have my human views and it's like-- I don't even have words for it, honestly, I don't, because I don't, I feel very, very stuck on the decision and it's, and as I said, a part of it is because of my religious views. I feel like whichever candidate I choose, I'm not going to be happy with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1597.0,1660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Now in terms of how that's going to affect us. I don't know. I don't think any of them really do what they say they're going to do. I think they say what they think people want to hear to get their foot in the door, and then they do, as they see fit once they're there. A lot of things are I don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but a lot of things are up now, with Roe vs. Wade and what's going on with the country and the unrest. I think that we need healing-- I think that we need someone who is going to encourage healing and not more division. I think that this is so large of an issue, and it's good that it's in the forefront and in front of everybody's face where they can't deny it, they have to address it. I think it's really, really sad that we're still having these conversations in this day and age, honestly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1660.0,1718.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: I just don't understand the lack of humanity that we're seeing from people, and I'll just leave that there. In terms of SEEK, I'm worried because we have such an amazing program that has so much to offer the community. And we don't know what our budget is. You know, education is always one of the first things to get cut. I hope that SEEK is going to be around for a very long time. I think that, like I said, we offer so much support because we don't just bring kids in and just sit them down and just, teach them and they leave. You know, it's really, really such a holistic approach to them as people. They have their counselors, they have the financial support, they have tutoring support, they have writing support, they have a computer lab, they have all these things dedicated specifically to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1718.0,1775.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: What's beautiful about the SEEK program is even if you're not a SEEK student, you're not turned away from the SEEK services in terms of academic support, right. You obviously have to meet the criteria to get into the seek program itself. Financially speaking, there has to be a need. And I think, the program is changing. The demographic is changing. But what people I hope will always understand is that, when the program started coming out of the Civil Rights Movement, it's those voices, those people that paved the way for everybody else, it's not, and this is why I think I was saying earlier, like, it's so unfair that people make this a race issue. It is a race issue. Yes. But at the end of the day, we're human beings. Right. And just, this is something that I have to be careful how I say, because I don't want it to be misconstrued. It is important that black lives matter. It is important that we are human beings and that we see each other that way. But we can't forget that, that movement is what paved the way for all minorities. No, not one color, right. Not one race. And I think everybody of color benefits from that, and I think that's so important to never lose sight of as a program. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure there's a few other things in my mind, but I know we're running low on time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1775.0,1878.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Yeah. I mean I think that's a good place to stop off. And then we can start schedule maybe 30 more minutes to continue talking--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1878.0,1887.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1887.0,1888.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: About this. Like we did run through a lot between May and November. So--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1888.0,1891.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Yeah--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1891.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: We can definitely schedule 30 more minutes--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1893.0,1897.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Sure--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1897.0,1897.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: To continue this, but it is 12:05. Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1897.0,1901.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tara Boodoo: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1901.0,1902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032/transcript/48755/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Obden Mondesir: Let me stop the recording.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/103906/file/204032#t=1902.0,1904.48"}]}]}]}