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It is. And I don't know if it's ever going to get warm out, but you never know. We'll probably have a few 60 degree days out of nowhere. But yeah, so, thanks. I have to ask a few preliminary questions. One -- I have to ask you -- do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens Memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you over email?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah, it's fine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=44.0,45.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Great. Thank you. This is David Thill. I am with Jofeliny Franco. We are recording on December 4th, 2020, for the Queens memory COVID-19 project. Jofeliny, could you please say your full name and spell it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=45.0,65.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Sure. It's Jofeliny Franco. Jofeliny is spelled J O F E L I N Y. Franco is F R A N C O.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=65.0,77.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Great, thank you. We touched on a couple of these things, but I'll ask you just to have it on the record. What pronouns do you prefer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=77.0,89.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: We said she/her?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=89.0,93.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yes. Cool. Great. How old are you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=93.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: 29.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=96.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: 29. Great. And where in Queens do you live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=96.0,102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: East Elmhurst.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=102.0,102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: East Elmhurst, great. Thank you for saying that again. Okay. I'm just going to get started, but you don't have to answer anything you don't want to, of course. And like we talked about, you can of course ask me any questions. What I am interested to know is -- forgive me for not knowing -- what is the statue that I can see over your, over your shoulder?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=102.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Oh, it's a Buddha.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=138.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Is that a Buddha? Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=138.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=141.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Is there any significance to that in your life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=141.0,147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: [crosstalk] Yeah, about, I guess like seven years ago, I was in the middle of searching inner peace and I came across a few Buddhists and people that practice meditation. So I started some classes here in, well, it's actually in New York, in the city, or in Williamsburg -- I got to study some Buddhism and I fell in love with it and I got myself a few statues. They're around my house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=147.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=183.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=183.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Practicing meditation, has that helped you find, you said inner peace? That's a big concept. Do you feel like you have more of an inner peace now than you did when you started?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=183.0,203.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Absolutely. I guess at that time I was struggling with continuous running thoughts, and I needed a new perception to try to see things a little bit different, and meditation and Buddhism changed that perception, helped me slow down my thinking and become still with myself. I also learned mindfulness through Buddhism. It was at the very beginning of my soul searching journey for me, and I started with inner peace because I just didn't feel like I wasn't giving my full potential, and I was aware of it. So that was something that I really wanted to work on first as an artist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=203.0,256.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Okay. It's interesting you say that. I feel like meditation and inner peace, those are all things that I don't have that sense in myself yet, and I know that I have definitely racing thoughts. You just mentioned now that, and I had wanted to talk to you about your art, but did you say that this connects directly to your art, wanting to find that inner peace?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=256.0,287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It did, because it also helped with like anxiety and overthinking. And I did a lot of that as an artist. I wasn't always confident about who I was and I went through a whole bunch of ups and downs just being an artist. So it helped me with my thinking, it definitely helped me with my breathing and just feeling more confident.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=287.0,311.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Okay. So I'm actually going to ask you this now about your art. When did you start, or have you always thought of yourself as an artist? Or when did that become part of your life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=311.0,329.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I always knew I was an artist since I was a child. I was always very creative, and I guess I was also outgoing. I enjoyed things that other people didn't, and it kind of made me feel different. And that's when I discovered like, \"Okay, I'm definitely an artist.\" But it wasn't until, I guess my early teens and in high school that I picked up a camera. A camera was always part of my life 'cause my mom loves pictures and memories. So eventually I kind of picked up on it because I wanted to record memories in high school, but it became like a serious passion. And everything that I used to see before where I couldn't compare it to somebody else, I started photographing it for expression because I wasn't very much of a talker before or very verbal. So photography and having a camera as a tool allowed me to express myself differently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=329.0,397.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Wow. That's amazing. That's so fascinating. Do you remember what drew you to the camera? First of all, had you already been doing other different forms of art before then? I think you said that your mom also photographed, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=397.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=424.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What I would wonder is when you first picked up the camera, do you remember what your first photograph was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=424.0,436.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, but I do have the first film that I developed in a black room.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=436.0,444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh, wow [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=444.0,444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I took some photography classes in college and I got to learn some films. I did develop my own, and I still have it. I do remember that. Everything else, like I said, I've been shooting with my mom since I was a little girl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=444.0,460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. So something I would wonder then, when you first started getting into it -- I think you said you were a teenager when you really got into photography -- did you have something, like a certain area or kind of subject, that you were focused on, and was that influenced by your mom?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=460.0,491.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It wasn't influenced by my mom. Maybe it was more influenced by my upbringing. I'm the first generation here that was born. My parents are from Dominican Republic. Growing up, they kept their culture very tight and that's what they showed me. But as a teen, this was like the first time that I was able to do public transportations by myself and stuff like that. At that point, that's where there was a turnover and now I was on my own and exploring things that I didn't see before versus what I kind of grew up with. So I was fascinated by the city. I remember just riding the train. I used to go to school in Astoria, so I would have to take the N line. And overseeing bridges. So I would shoot random stuff like nature, bridges, buildings. The first picture that I developed in a black room was in SoHo, and SoHo's known for fashion and the trend. Anything that had to do with nature, city landscapes, fashion -- I think that was my thing at that time. And the first picture that I got to develop was — I don't remember exactly where in SoHo, but I was standing right underneath a whole building and all the windows happened to be open. So I got to photograph that from the street, up. And like I said, I got to develop it too, so I do have it still.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=491.0,588.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: That sounds mesmerizing. How tall [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=588.0,593.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I usually see things different, for sure. I don't know why I was fascinated by the weirdest things, and I still have moments where I'm like, \"Oh, do you see that?\" And people just look at me like, \"Okay. It is what it is.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=593.0,608.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: You're opening up a lot for me now that I want to ask you about. First of all, I want to ask you what brought you down to SoHo? Did you just end up there by taking the train wherever you wanted or did you know, I guess what I'm wondering is, did you just start riding the train sort of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=608.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Basically [crosswalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=631.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: —Aimlessly?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=631.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah, I remember just going into the city with my friends and we started as simple as Times Square. And within time, the other girls knew other parts, but we would end up, actually my best friend, he's very fashionable. He loves SoHo. He would be like, \"We're not shopping in Queens, we're going to SoHo.\" So he's my fashionable best friend, and that's how I got to learn more of what the trend was and what he would speak that was inspiring his culture. So I was like, okay, I get it now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=631.0,670.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: [laughs] That's so interesting. He said we're not shopping in Queens, we're shopping in SoHo. Is there a sort of a difference? Do you see those? I definitely see Queens as, from my limited experience -- Queens for me has been very different from Manhattan. And especially like this area of Queens down to SoHo would definitely be different. Does that strike you at all, or do you feel differently in Soho than you do here in Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=670.0,710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I feel like I do. There's a culture down there. You could see it in the clothing. I have a fashion eye, so you could definitely see it in the clothing. And you don't really run into high-end brands out here. You're not gonna stroll through Jackson Heights and see Prada or Zara. So the city allows us to see that. The more high-end brands and the fashion statement within the culture in SoHo is just completely different, I feel, from anyone out here. I felt that way then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=710.0,752.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. If I asked you -- which I am asking you -- about the culture here in Queens, and especially in your neighborhood, and this area of Queens, how would you describe the culture here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=752.0,765.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I can't really relate to everyone else, but I think part of the reason why I fell in love with the whole city culture and fashion, I went to Catholic school my whole life, so I pretty much lived in a uniform. And the minute that I would have a second to escape that uniform, it was all about fashion and where can I go with it. So I guess that's really where it came from for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=765.0,795.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Okay. Sid I just hear you say then that you had a harder time, or you felt harder to relate to people out here then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=795.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=806.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=806.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: There was another area, like I love Williamsburg. Now, I love Williamsburg. It's very trendy. It's artsy. It's a lot of who I am now. So that's another area that I have fell in love with. I feel like I belong there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=806.0,826.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Wow. So, but you've spent your whole life here in East Elmhurst.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=826.0,833.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. And I probably don't belong in New York either, but I spent my whole life in New York. Yes. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=833.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Oh, wow. If not New York, where do you, I mean, New York is such a fashion, you don't consider yourself abroad to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=839.0,848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, I'm sure I still have to explore other states and other cultures and stuff, but something about New York, even though I grew up here and I know the fast pace, I guess as I've gotten older, I do like the more simple things. So I wouldn't mind being somewhere more closer to nature and if I really wanted the city vibe, just drive down and enjoy it for the day or whatever the case may be. I also do enjoy warmer weather. I wouldn't know where I would go either. So I don't know. I guess I still have to figure that side of me, right? [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=848.0,892.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: No but, you've been doing a lot of discovery, it sounds like. But even locally, I know that you said that you were born and raised in East Elmhurst. What's kept you in East Elmhurst versus Williamsburg or Manhattan? SoHo?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=892.0,914.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: That's a good question. Well I live with my parents, and I'm their only daughter, so I've kind of just been sticking around with them until I figure out what is the right thing for me. And I haven't figured it out yet. So I guess I've been here my whole life in this house, so this is home for me. The thought of change -- even though I love Williamsburg and stuff like that -- I have yet to come across a place where I could call home yet. I'm very picky with that. I guess eventually I will run into another place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=914.0,954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. So funny that you say that [laughs]. I think about home often. And I'm not from New York and I came to New York hoping that I would get a sense of home here and especially in Queens. You live with your parents now, you've lived in this same house your whole life, you said. When we talked first, you did tell me around what area. I think you said that you were around Astoria Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=954.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. Not too far.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=991.0,993.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=993.0,996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I live literally right by LaGuardia Airport.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=996.0,998.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=998.0,998.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I can take a walk over there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=998.0,1001.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Do you? Do you walk over there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1001.0,1003.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1003.0,1004.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1004.0,1004.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I've walked and took a flight or took a shuttle. It's like five minutes away. So I didn't look at it as a convenient thing growing up, but as I got older and I started traveling, I'm like, \"Holy crap, it's right there.\" You know? [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1004.0,1017.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. I could see both pros and cons of living near the airport.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1017.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's all right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1023.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What's your immediate surroundings like in the neighborhood? If you looked out your window right now, what would you see? Would you see just the airport or would you see stores or other houses or something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1023.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Other houses. I live in a street that's just houses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1043.0,1047.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Have you noticed it change since you've grown up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1047.0,1056.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. Like culture-wise. I think me and another family were like the only Hispanics here when we first moved. But there's a lot of diversity now. Compared to before, there's a lot of diversity in East Elmhurst, and more people are here. There used to be, like parking-wise -- I used to find a parking right away. And now it's like, I'm going around in circles. We do have a driveway, but sometimes I just don't want to put it in there. Definitely a lot more people and a lot more diversity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1056.0,1095.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: So that's interesting, both of those points. When you said that you were the only Hispanic family there at first, or you and the other family [background noise], were the other people white?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1095.0,1113.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was mostly Blacks and some Spanish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1113.0,1117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1117.0,1117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Or like Guyanese. I had some Guyanese friends, very few Spanish, and then the rest were Black, mixed, African American or from different states and stuff like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1117.0,1134.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. But now you said that it is, you said that it's more diverse overall?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1134.0,1139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. There's definitely more cultures here now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1139.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1143.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: A lot of a little bit of everyone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1143.0,1145.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. I would wonder if you have an opinion on that change. It sounds like, if it's more diverse now, are you happy to see that change?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1145.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: [Sound cut out] When I was younger and it hasn't affect me now. I guess I don't really pay attention to stuff like that. I like it 'cause I'm very diverse. I have friends that are Asian, Black, white, like from all over the world. So the fact that, I guess, we're getting a lot of that here is interesting, but it's never affected me, before or even now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1169.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. What about what you said about more people being here? I feel like a lot of cities have become more crowded, just in general, and it doesn't surprise me that there are more people here now. But do you have a sense of what, from your perspective, what's bringing people here to this neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1202.0,1227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think the airport is one. Like Airbnb-wise or even some pilots have at-home stay nearby.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1227.0,1238.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1238.0,1238.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And the neighborhood is pretty laid back, like I've never had an issue. Everybody knows me on my block, so I really consider myself to live in a neighborhood. The girls across the street know me since I was a baby and we kinda all grew up together, so it's very family-oriented. I feel safe. Like I said, I've never had any issues and I've lived here my whole life and it's very laid back. I don't know if everybody's as laid back as me. I have a brother, he lives in a building and the atmosphere is completely different. He doesn't have a backyard versus me, I could just walk right outside and I have a backyard. So I think depending on what the family is looking for and where they're coming from, it's why they may be interested in this area. 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Literally across the boulevard, there's buildings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1304.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1308.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And if you go a little bit more up, it's like a house and then if you go a little bit more it's like a whole bunch of buildings again and I'm like, \"okay.\" So depending on the avenue -- if you're in Astoria Boulevard versus like 34th Avenue -- the amount of people change.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1308.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1324.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And Roosevelt Avenue, it's so commercial.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1324.0,1327.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1327.0,1327.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I think depending on what atmosphere you like is kind of where you end up in. And my dad is very laid back and he doesn't like a lot of people, he doesn't like having a commercial area unless we have to go to it. So that's how we definitely ended up here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1327.0,1346.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Okay. So you said that you've known a lot of people around you your whole life. You said it's like a family atmosphere. And yet you also said, I think, that you also felt maybe some disconnect from people around you. Is that right? Do you feel both part of this neighborhood and part of this maybe family, community, but also apart from it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1346.0,1384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah. Everybody, you know, minds their own business. And like I said, I feel like it's more like a neighborhood where you know someone versus, well, I don't know, maybe this is just me, I'm speaking for myself. I'm sure there's a community because I've seen family days throughout the years. And we have a church nearby and it's like a huge pantry throughout the pandemic. So I know there is a sense of community here. I'll be the one to come and sleep here and then I'll go to Williamsburg or I'm traveling and stuff. So I don't really participate much in my community, but I know there is a sense of family and community here. I've seen it. Does that make sense? I can only speak for myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1384.0,1432.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: No, that's really interesting. And it does make sense. It sounded like, I think you mentioned your best friend, the one that you were talking about -- he is from here. He is from Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1432.0,1448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: He is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1448.0,1448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How did you find him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1448.0,1452.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I'm the youngest of five, but I'm the only daughter from my parents. They had a different marriage before, so they have children and they're older than me by like 10, 15 years. So one of my brothers, he's been dating his wife for, I don't know, like 20 years. And she had a little brother that's one year younger than me. And he has became my best friend. Like we practically grew up together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1452.0,1486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Also East Elmhurst?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1486.0,1489.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, actually I think it's Corona because it changes. He's on Northern Boulevard. I think that area in the hundreds is Corona, but he's like a seven minute walk for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1489.0,1503.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. You said that you've been friends with him for a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1503.0,1509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah, I think I must've been like, I don't know, seven-, eight-ish. 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I'm the youngest of five. Yeah. Well, like I said, they're my step-sister and brothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1534.0,1536.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1536.0,1536.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I'm my parents only child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1536.0,1547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay, right, right. So how would you describe your relationship with your siblings. Did you say there's a disconnect, like an age gap?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1547.0,1559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: [Crosstalk] Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1559.0,1559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What's your relationship with them like? Are they all in Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1559.0,1567.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: They're all in Queens. They're all married and have children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1567.0,1575.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1575.0,1575.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I guess my relationship with them was I've learned a lot really fast because everybody around me is older. And I'm pretty close to all of them. I mean, they have their own families and stuff, but I have 11 nieces and nephews put together out of all those, so that's interesting. I get to see kids all day long, so, it's pretty cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1575.0,1602.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. So growing up then with your parents as sort of the three of you though, it sounds like—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1602.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was five and then it became three. 'Cause my brothers -- my mom's kids -- were here with us for a while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1620.0,1627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. I see. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1627.0,1630.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: There were [crosstalk].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1630.0,1630.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How long has it been the three of you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1630.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: How long did that last? I'm gonna say around 10 to 12 years, something like that. I think I was like around 11 when the last one left. 11-ish, 12.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1634.0,1656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. How would you describe your relationship with your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1656.0,1658.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Um, they're okay, [laughs] no, let me stop. They're good. I definitely am closer to my mom. My dad, he's always been the working parent and [pause] I know I picked up a lot of his traits growing up, but we have different opinion about stuff, so I'm not really as connected or close to him, but both of my parents are good. They're good people and I appreciate them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1658.0,1696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: You said your dad, he works a lot, you said?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1696.0,1701.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: He used to in my upbringing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1701.0,1702.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. What kind of work did he do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1702.0,1702.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: He was the provider. He was some kind of a manager for this company, was like bookbinding company and he also did construction. So that was his thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1702.0,1720.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: And you said that you and him think differently on things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1720.0,1726.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. I mean, I'm the first generation here, so I don't expect him to get me all the time, but it's definitely hard to be an artist and try to speak to an old school Dominican. It just doesn't go. [laughs] It doesn't go. So I think that has, that definitely brought us our differences and maybe why we're not as close 'cause my opinion and his, but, he's a good person. It doesn't change who he is. It's just, we have different opinion, and I'm an artist, so imagine that one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1726.0,1759.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Well, so, can you give me an example of you -- a first-generation artist here talking to your old-school Dominican dad -- like what's the conversation like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1759.0,1777.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I pretty much had to go through every experience, school-wise, I felt like I was alone in it. They were very poor back in the island, so they barely probably got out of middle school or something like that. So everything was very new to me and I think it was very new to them at the same time. I'm also like the first graduate that went to college. But I guess one of the hardest things for me was being an artist with my dad. I guess he was very traditional when it came to a career, like, you know, teacher, medical, cop things that are, I guess, safe as a career. And I'm here telling him like, \"Yeah, well I'm a photographer and I love psychology.\" And he's just like, \"What does that even mean?\" So he wasn't as supportive when it came to photography because he wanted me to be, I guess, secure. And that was always my fight. I don't know if you know, but there's an image all around us, and, it's the old-school thing, like he didn't get to experience much, like how I've been exposed to this world. So I can't even blame him, but if he was slightly more open-minded, I think I would have been in a different place, but, here I am. [crosstalk] Still shooting, still a photographer, still love psychology.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1777.0,1870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1870.0,1870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And, yeah, it's pretty much—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1870.0,1877.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What brought your parents here? Were your other siblings -- your step and half siblings -- were they already born when your parents came here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1877.0,1889.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think that two were born back or one was born back in the island and the rest of them were born here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1889.0,1896.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Do you know what brought your parents here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1896.0,1900.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I believe they had family here already, so I guess it was like the safe place for them. Out of everywhere else, we ended up in New York, ironically, but, yeah, I think it was just more family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1900.0,1919.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. And -- I'm sorry you may have already said this -- how long before you were born did they come to the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1919.0,1932.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think my mom was like, I dunno, like 17, 18 years old. And I believe my dad was probably the same age around there. Maybe like early twenties.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1932.0,1953.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Okay. And sorry again, they did not come together, though.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1953.0,1959.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1959.0,1959.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: They came [crosstalk] separately.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1959.0,1959.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1959.0,1959.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: If you don't mind my asking, what was your first language then? Did you grow up in a house with different languages?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1959.0,1973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. That would have been a good example earlier too. That was also hard for me because they speak Spanish. And my mom, even though she may understand English and stuff like that, she speaks Spanish still. So I grew up with Spanish, and then I started learning English. So that was not too easy for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=1973.0,2006.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How did you learn English? Did you formally learn English or was it from going to school or something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2006.0,2014.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think it was like a mix of having my brothers, because they were born here and stuff like that, and then school. But it was tough for me because when it came down to needing the help, my mom, she was the person that was always around me, she didn't speak English. So I was confused for a long time. I definitely have been my own cheerleader and have pushed myself the whole way, because it wasn't easy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2014.0,2061.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: It sounds like you're describing like a disconnect. It sounds like you were operating in multiple worlds. You were living in multiple worlds. Is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2061.0,2073.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I feel that way. I've always said I was either born in the wrong identity or living, I don't know if I'm a old soul. I don't know exactly what it was -- but I definitely had different worlds, and I was one, home was another, school, and then like the culture itself, and then the languages, me versus who they think I am. So it wasn't easy. It definitely wasn't. And again, I just feel like they only knew so much, so they were just trying to do right by me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2073.0,2114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: If you can put a time on this, do you remember any either time or experience when you felt like you were establishing your identity to your parents, maybe? Like when you felt like you had to maybe, like you said, cheerlead yourself, like you felt like you had to establish yourself for them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2114.0,2147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think at a young age because of the different mentalities, I had to start developing a voice; go against them, it didn't always go well. But I know at a young age I definitely had to develop a voice. I gave myself until I was 21, because in their eyes, that's when we're an adult. That's basically when you are an adult. So I gave myself until I was 21. And then after that, I started definitely exploring a lot more of myself and trying new things and finding out other things that I'm probably interested in and never seen and just really exploring.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2147.0,2196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: By that point you had already found photography, am I correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2196.0,2204.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. Yeah. Right before high school, you have to pick a college. And the only two things that I really wanted to do was either psychology 'cause I love people and I have a thing for mental health and just understanding others, slash photography. And at that time -- because of the language difference and how I grew up and how much help and support emotionally I had -- psychology to me was extremely hard at that time. I didn't really believe in myself. So I went to the second best thing, which was photography.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2204.0,2246.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Did that help you establish your identity? Did that help you discover those parts of yourself?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2246.0,2254.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Which part?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2254.0,2261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I think you said that you had given yourself until you were 21, and then at that point you really started branching off and trying to discover new things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2261.0,2269.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think I've done a great job in the last, whoa, I'm 29 now, so eight years. I think I've done a great job and there's still a lot more inside of me that is very curious, and I want to run wild and explore and travel and do things that interest me. But I definitely think that in the last eight to nine years, I started building my identity, whether it was fashion, whether it was Buddhism, whether it was traveling, nature, I've done all kinds of stuff to just explore myself. Like I went to Thailand, I wanted to go see a monk. I fell in love with the whole practice. I got to see elephants. I'm very spontaneous, so I got to skydive. I'm also an athlete, so I've done marathons all over New York City.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2269.0,2330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2330.0,2330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I'm a black belt, so I got to discover different kinds of martial arts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2330.0,2336.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Black belt in karate?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2336.0,2337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's called Kyokushin. [crosstalk] So it's like a Japanese self-defense. I fell in love with self-development, so I started reading tons of book and meeting some artists and authors behind them. So anywhere that I felt my curiosity was leaning towards, I have literally took the leap of faith and went, whether it was a class, whether it was a travel, whether it was networking, a sport. I'm very fearless when it comes to just finding more of myself. I still feel like I'm soul-searching. This year specifically, I wanted to exercise voice. That was the word of the year for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2337.0,2381.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: When did you choose that word?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2381.0,2383.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Literally, probably like a few days right before New Year's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2383.0,2388.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. So how did you explore voice in January and February. Did that change then, in March and after March?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2388.0,2408.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I came in strong because the pandemic wasn't happening yet. I mean, it was, but not here. So the first few things that I did, I remember for my birthday, I bought myself a vocal class. Keep in mind, I'm not a singer, but as an artist, I wanted to explore another side of me. And since I'm so visual, fashion is visual for me, photography is visual, creative directing is visual, and I'm very crafty with my hands, that's visual to me--to me, it was like an old story. Okay, I'm a visual artist. So I kind of wanted to try something completely different. So I picked voice. The first thing I think, I believe I did, was the vocal class. Then I also met a family friend that he was a comedian. He had hired me to do his headshot, and I got to interview him. I also like people in general, just knowing their stories and interviewing them. I found him to be perfect because I wanted to know the psychology behind his comedy, like, \"Why comedy? How do you stand on this stage? Where do you get this confidence? Where did this voice come from?\" So I got to exercise some with him. I didn't get to do any stand-up and I'm not interested in comedy. But because he gave me some kind of input on comedy and voice, I decided to interview him, but then the pandemic kind of happened, and a list of me exploring voice kinda shut down. And I went right back to my visuals. But this time I wanted to kind of give my photography a voice, which I don't think I've done it yet. I mean, I did submit, that's how I have you in front of me, I did submit some of my work to the Queens Library project or the Queens, what is it, the Queens College project? Or the Queens—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2408.0,2541.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: [crosstalk] It is the Queens Library, Queens Public Library, but the Queens College is also part of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2541.0,2546.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I came across that, I don't even remember how, and I was working till almost April because my job wasn't part of essential. So when everything was shutting down, when there was nobody in the trains, when stores were writing letters for their customers and soldiers were out in the city, I had to watch all of that. So I think I found purpose at that moment, like, \"Okay, let me shoot this. You know, this is history.\" We're still going through it, we're not kind of going through it, we're still going through it. So I started shooting again and I think I submitted my photography this time with a voice that everybody could relate to these pictures. These pictures already have their voice. We're all going through this pandemic and in between, I have done women's support groups and mental health support groups where I'm sharing my story or who I am. And because of that, it kinda inspired me even more to want to exercise it in 2021. And maybe this time something more formal and creative in a way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2546.0,2624.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Have you thought about what that might be?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2624.0,2627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I've done some interviews. You're not my only one [laughs]. This is gonna be the second interview now with like a museum or project. I did one for 9/11, and I've also done some podcasts. Something about being an artist, self-development mental health and my experience, I feel like I just want to share that. It might help somebody else. Maybe someone just needs it. I don't know, but I definitely want to continue to speak about myself. I feel like I have a lot to say, there's a lot of wisdom behind me, and experience, and hopefully it gets somewhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2627.0,2674.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Do you have a vision of whom you might want to serve? I don't expect you to know exactly, but are there groups or people that you you think, \"Oh, I can definitely relate to these people\"?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2674.0,2694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think anyone that is an artist I can relate to, definitely a woman, but I think mental health in general has became a thing. I mean, I think it's always been, but social media and visual media now is expressing more of that. So anything with self-development, encouragement and motivation, drive, how to get out of your head, like I said, I was lacking inner peace at some point. I definitely do appreciate them more and I think they appreciate me because I understand and can relate and can guide, versus me, I felt like I was just completely lost. And I mean, I was lucky enough to fall somehow into Buddhism and find classes, but some people aren't like me, I'm extremely curious. Some people get stuck in their feelings, and episodes can last weeks and months and years and patterns. So I feel like if I had an opportunity to speak to anyone, it would be in general mental health, women or kids or artists kind of crowd.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2694.0,2784.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Here's a question. I have a feeling this is different for different people -- How do you define \"artist\"?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2784.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Someone that sees color in black and white. There's no gray, it's either black or white. Not everybody's creative. Like while I'm sitting, I remember being somewhere and I'm like, \"Oh my God, look at that tree, it's beautiful.\" And everybody else was just like, \"It's just a tree, Jofi [phonetic].\" So I feel like I find beauty in things that other people may not even take a look at or envision. I'm very diverse. I think that could be an artist too. I feel like photography has made me an artist, in a way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2790.0,2814.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2814.0,2814.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I don't know how to answer that [crosstalk], but I guess that's a good answer. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2814.0,2844.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Well, first of all, I'm wondering, you just mentioned a tree. Do you remember that? Do you remember that specific experience?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2844.0,2856.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. Everybody was laughing at me [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2856.0,2857.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Where was this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2857.0,2857.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's actually here in East Elmhurst. My brother's best friend and his family lives a few minutes away. And we used to visit them very often and it was like a summer day and we were all sitting outside. They have a front porch area, and we're all sitting there casually drinking, and I spaced out. The tree is still there. I spaced out and I'm like, \"Oh my god guys. Look at that tree. It's absolutely beautiful.\" And they all were cracking up 'cause [laughs] they didn't understand where it came from. And I'm like, \"No, seriously look.\" And I loved it because how it grew, it spiraled up. It wasn't just like a straight trunk. It was spiraling up and they're all looking. And I guess after like 20 minutes of me speaking of this tree, they're like, \"You know what, Jofi, that really is a nice tree.\" I'm like, \"That is my tree.\" So I could literally probably go up to them and be like, \"You guys remember that tree?\" And they're like, \"Yes, we do.\" So I have my spaced-out moments where I feel like I'm connected to something or in tune with something that other people may not be present enough to see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2857.0,2912.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2912.0,2912.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And I think I have that very often.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2912.0,2912.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Is it usually nature, or is it other things too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2912.0,2947.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think it's nature and people. Like energy, souls. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm seeing people, I think I'm seeing past their exterior, and I'm really connecting to what they're feeling and what's inside of them emotionally, connected to people. And I think that's pretty much it. Like nature and souls, spirits, and emotions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2947.0,2980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: If you can, can you describe an experience of when you felt especially connected to someone and who that was, how you found that connection?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2980.0,2997.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Trying to think, I've met so many people. Okay. I've been doing photography for a long time. So at the age of like 18 and 19, I had a business card and, I dunno, I guess I thought I was a boss at that age, right? So I had a business card and a lot of people knew me from photography and I had a client for head shots, and the photo shoot went so well. I wasn't nervous. We were able to talk about anything, and it was just like all jokes and laughter. And this is a complete stranger. Fast-forward, this stranger is still my best friend. And I always remind him, I'm like, \"Yeah, you hired me. You were my client at some point.\" And I know his whole family, I know his wife. And he has definitely been a huge influence in my life, where we kinda came from the same culture, but he himself has always been different. He had a lot of ambition for success. And about five years ago, he randomly called me and hired me for the company that he was working in. And being with him for those, well, I wasn't with him for five, because he left after my third or fourth -- but being with him for those three years, he flipped my whole life around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=2997.0,3083.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3083.0,3085.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I went with him and his wife to Thailand. They showed me just a whole bunch of stuff, like culture, food, how to make a five-year plan, what do you want versus where you are, priorities. I guess more lifestyle and I don't want to say behavior, but like mindset. He gave me a different perception. Like if I had one, being around them gave me a whole different perception. They made it so much more simple, and when I struggled to understand it, were extremely patient and we're still very good friends today. So this is now a bond for almost a decade.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3085.0,3134.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3134.0,3134.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And that was off of a photo shoot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3134.0,3137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3137.0,3137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's like we were just never strangers. He was like a brother to me right away. And he's still my brother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3137.0,3146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How often do you get that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3146.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's rare. I know a lot of people, and I think I could connect with just about everyone. But to keep somebody close to me like that, where I feel like their mentality and perception is valuable to me, it's a very small circle. I feel like everybody could talk, but not a lot of people are executing and really following their goal and who they really want to be. And he happens to be one. Him and his family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3150.0,3189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Does ambition draw you to someone?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3189.0,3193.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Does ambition drive me to people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3193.0,3196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Does other people's ambition, is that something that—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3196.0,3200.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3200.0,3200.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: —you are drawn towards?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3200.0,3204.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think definitely yes. Reason being is because I'm extremely curious and wherever I am mentally, physically, or emotionally, I always remind myself that I want to keep succeeding. And I'm very hard on myself, but I've learned to embrace the journey. So if another person is there guiding me or they're successful or they see the good in me, I really do appreciate that because finding myself hasn't been easy. I've recently lost my job, so I'm doing more networking than ever. And when someone values you, to me, is a different feeling than somebody just knowing like, \"Oh yeah, she's a great girl.\" No. This person definitely knows more than what an average person can see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3204.0,3257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What was your job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3257.0,3267.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I worked in a electrical contractor in the city. And I started as their front desk, eventually became their administrative assistant and then service manager. So it was a small corporate company. But I love them. I was in the middle of operation and construction and the craziness of operation, it was fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3267.0,3301.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: So this was the company that your friend—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3301.0,3307.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: He was a project manager there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3307.0,3310.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Sorry, can you describe a little bit more; you said it's an electrical contractors what the company is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3310.0,3319.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3319.0,3319.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: So they do actual projects?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3319.0,3324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Electrical. Yes. So they're like a union-based company that we're either servicing electrical maintenance or bidding on projects that need the electrical trade within a project. They worked for the Hudson Yards, or they worked for the World Trade Center or the Freedom Tower or the Empire State Building, anything electrical maintenance or service-wise, we would be there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3324.0,3351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: And did you enjoy your work with them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3351.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I don't know why construction has picked me. For whatever reason, ever since I came out of high school, I've had multiple opportunities in different trade in construction, for the last like 10 years. And it wasn't until the electrical contractor that I became very fidgety being there because I was beating myself up about, you know, I'm an artist or I love psychology or I'm very creative and this is very black and white. For the first time I felt black and white. But it wasn't because of the people. They were amazing. But it was because, I guess for the first time, I'm sitting in an atmosphere where I'm not allowed to be myself, or I wasn't myself completely. And I felt like my light was dimmed. But I also had to find the beauty behind that darkness. And I started to love construction. As an artist, I was like, \"I have to find the beauty in construction.\" So I started finding the beauty in construction, trying to fit myself within operation or any department that I felt interested in. And I fell in love with operation in general, just project management and operation, the fast thinking, being involved, being in the field. If I had to adapt to that, that was what I was striking for.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3360.0,3454.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: You said you were a project manager?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3454.0,3457.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, I did administrative assistant for operations. So that entailed anywhere from the idea of a project, bidding, knowing certain other GCs, being awarded a job, opening the job, and then material, manpower, time, operations is everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3457.0,3481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3481.0,3481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: How long is it gonna take, speaking to the engineer, being onsite. What permits or insurances, everything that goes into the before and after of a project was operations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3481.0,3494.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Okay. Wow. That sounds almost daunting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3494.0,3502.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was weird being there, but I swear, I learned to love it. So it was exciting at the same time. At the end, it became exciting to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3502.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: At the end just recently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3510.0,3514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Recently, because I started thinking about more of my future, since I had all these years in construction and almost five years there. I went back to school throughout the pandemic, and I got my CPM in Pace University. So it's construction project manager. Then the project manager that was my friend -- he used to be there, his name was Jonathan -- he always used to tell me to get my PMP license, which is project manager professional. So I went back to school after my CPM. I started my PMP courses and I'm at the final stage. I'm supposed to take the globally [phonetic] state license. It's like a regional state license for project manager. And here I am. I took this pandemic and I was like, I am going to make something out of this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3514.0,3566.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3566.0,3566.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Even if it's not photography or my voice. I felt like I wasn't secure in my job because of the pandemic. So many people have lost their jobs. So why not enhance the skills that I already have while I'm not really doing much and locked down?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3566.0,3584.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. I want to first check in, because we've been talking now for an hour. Do you want to keep going? We can, I'm happy to keep going, I'm enjoying talking to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3584.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3600.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay, cool. And then we can figure out, I'm not gonna take your entire night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3600.0,3611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3611.0,3611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I have to do laundry tonight, just remembered.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3611.0,3613.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3613.0,3617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: [laughs] So, can you maybe take me back to like March. At what point do you remember being aware of it sort of here as something that could affect us here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3617.0,3641.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It didn't really hit me until I was in LaGuardia airport waiting for my flight to go to Arizona. And that was February 28th. And it seemed like a horror movie for me. Like I'm walking down to my terminal and every television was on and everything was about coronavirus, coronavirus. And I'm like, \"What the hell is going on?\" I guess I didn't hit me, or I didn't know what was coming. And that was the first time, I acknowledged it. By the time I came back from Arizona -- within 10 to 12 days-- everything shut down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3641.0,3686.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Yeah. When did you come back from Arizona?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3686.0,3688.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: March 4th.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3688.0,3694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Yup.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3694.0,3694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And I think by the 17 of March or the 19 of March, it was like 100% non-essentials locked down. I'm like, \"Okay...\" [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3694.0,3705.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Well, so what dates sort of stick out to you from March. You just said the 17th and 19th, I definitely remember those dates. Looking back on it -- as much as we can look back on it, even though it's not that long ago -- I would wonder at what point did it change? You just described going through the airport, but even at that point in late February, we were still not aware that it was going to be an emergency. When did it become sort of like that emergency feeling? Did it suddenly feel even more urgent and more imminent?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3705.0,3751.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Um, so on the airport was my first awareness of it, came back, then what we have about two weeks before the real shutdown. So I guess within the first two to three days shutdowns were happening. It was like 25%. And it was like 50%. And it was like 75%. And by the 17 or the 19, I believe it was like 100%. And that was weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3751.0,3783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3783.0,3783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: But I wasn't part of the nonessential. Construction wasn't part of that. So when the whole world is shut down and you're on the train still [laughs] on your way to work -- those two weeks or the most scariest things for me, because I went from a crowded train to maybe there's another person with me. I went from just really getting on a train. Now I need a mask and hand sanitizer. We actually lost a few -- I believe it was one family friend -- between April and June. We lost a family friend from it and my dad's brother and his wife. So it became real. As we were locked down, it was very real, but while I was working, it was horrible. I didn't want to take the train anymore. I didn't want to go to the city. I guess somebody in the construction field did get sick and that's when they revised nonessential and made construction part of that list. And then we shut down by April 1st.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3783.0,3855.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh, wow. Okay. By April 1st. So --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3855.0,3858.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Shut down completely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3858.0,3860.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. And is that when you then lost your job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3860.0,3863.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3863.0,3863.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3863.0,3867.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: They had just shut down and I went on unemployment and then they reopened, I believe in June, but it was only like half the office. So we did remote and we did some days in the office and then it was very slow. Service and maintenance didn't really exist because none of these tenants are in office. Everybody's working from home. So now the workload was very low and everything was just different. You know, everybody had to adapt to what was going on and it was just very different and it wasn't until the end of July that they had to start cutting staff because the workload wasn't coming in, everything was even slower. So a few of us got cut off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3867.0,3922.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Before then, I am interested to hear your experience on the train. Was it like a overnight thing? [snaps finger] Like suddenly there was no one on your train?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3922.0,3941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was. It was like within days. I think it was a wave. So at first it was 25, 50, 75. And then by the time it was 100, we were still open. So I think it took like two weeks, two to three weeks for real shut down. The -- I'm going to say -- two weeks in a shutdown and then the last two weeks of March, those were really weird days. There was nobody in the street, like I said, all these businesses are closed with letters in front of their doors apologizing, or like \"Everybody take care, wear your mask.\" There was signs everywhere. It was just weird. It was just really weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3941.0,3989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Where was the office that you worked at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3989.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: In Midtown.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3990.0,3991.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Midtown? What was it like in the office?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3991.0,3996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: How was it like in the office? It was a slow. Not everybody wanted to come in and we couldn't allow everyone to come in because there was older and this virus attacked older or weak immune system. So we had some sick, some older, so it was empty. Lunch didn't become fun anymore. It was like, \"Where do we go and eat?\" Because everything is closed. Everything became extremely limited. And it was just scary. Iit was just weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=3996.0,4036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: When I think back on that time, I think a lot about trying to keep distance from people, but also there was that at that point, we were very focused on like hand washing and sanitizing --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4036.0,4053.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Mhmm. [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4053.0,4056.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Was there a sense that you had to stay away from the other people around you in your office? Or was there any of that sense of -- I don't know -- danger or fear?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4056.0,4067.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Not in the office, but I definitely felt that outside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4067.0,4071.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4071.0,4074.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: The streets, you could tell everybody was scared. Some people weren't in tune with it. I guess they didn't want to acknowledge it, but most were scared and it was different. It was definitely different for everyone. Nobody really knew what was going on. So at the same time, they were trying to take care of each other, but, at the same time, nervous about not knowing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4074.0,4109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: How was it with your parents at this point? How were they reacting? How were you and your parents reacting at home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4109.0,4119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: They were extremely nervous. I think we all were, but mostly my dad. He has health conditions and he's older. So then backing him up as my mom. And then I try to be like the cool calm and collected one and the brave one. I was taking care of some of the runs, making sure everything was washed down. Since at that point, they were also like \"It can live in your clothes. It can live on a surface.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4119.0,4149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Right, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4149.0,4149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So it was like, \"What are we washing? Bags and everything, everything is washed now.\" [laughs] It was definitely taking over my dad's mental health. And he lost a few family members. I think the unknown, losing some family, not being able to see them and being stuck at home for him, it was just like, I know he was nervous. I know he didn't want to get sick. I know he was emotionally broken in a way. He did lose his brother and a sister. And it was just, it was just really sad time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4149.0,4194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: In this area of Queens and East Elmhurst, it was especially rough. Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4194.0,4202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4202.0,4203.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: And I wasn't living in this neighborhood at that point. But I've definitely heard. Where I was living -- I was in Astoria at that point -- and there were definitely be the ambulance sirens -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4203.0,4218.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Mhmm [in agreement]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4218.0,4220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: - all the time. Was that something that struck you by any chance? I always wondered [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4220.0,4224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: We didn't really have that. Like I said, the neighborhood is very laid back. We did see some ambulance, actually. One of my neighbors right next door, he passed from the virus. So we did hear that, but because it's not really like a commercial area and there's not a hospital in this area, I didn't hear all of the sirens, but we did hear a few.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4224.0,4251.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Did you go outside much during that time? Did you walk at all outside during that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4251.0,4261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I did. I did some walking to keep my sanity, some jogging, go grab coffee, come right back, or just hang out in the backyard. Anything to keep my sanity up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4261.0,4276.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: And how, how was it walking through the neighborhood? When you walked through during those months in March and April, how would you describe the atmosphere? Was it different? Was it the same? Did it change at all? Maybe it didn't change at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4276.0,4306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was emptier. I mean, like I said, it's a quiet neighborhood, but there wasn't really a lot of people out on site. And if you did see them, they're wearing a mask. So at that time, for me, it was new. And it's still something that we have to wear now. To me, it was extremely new and I'm like, \"I can't believe to take a walk I have to wear a mask or to go grab my coffee I have to wear a mask.\" So I think I was affected by that mostly. And how empty public transportations were because that's my life. My life was on a bus or a train. And if it wasn't that, I would see people and I wouldn't see people with a mask. So those were the like four things that hit me, I guess, differently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4306.0,4358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: After you, office shut down on at the very beginning of April, did you still continue going on public transit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4358.0,4367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I did. I think I did it a few times for a doctor's appointment or like errands and the fairs were free. The buses were free.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4367.0,4385.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4385.0,4385.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And the bus, uh, was extremely empty. Like I said, the trains were empty and even the roads -- like some of the highways,usually there's like traffic going down Astoria Boulevard into the Grand Central or into the Whitestone Highway -- you didn't really see a lot of people out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4385.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: What did you feel during that time? Are you able to describe it? Did you have any, I don't know, any, anything constant?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4410.0,4432.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think I felt lost in a way. I think that was really it: lost. I went from -- I mean, not only me, but New York -- went from the city that never slept or sleeps to now we're just completely shut down. So adapting to everything, to me, it was very foreign. It was confusing. I definitely felt lost. Social distancing became lonely. Everything is now virtually. It's not the same for someone like me that loves connection souls and people and photography and networking. I felt alone and I'm still struggling with it, but now it's a little bit better and I do see my family more. Before I couldn't see them. I don't think I saw them for like two, three months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4432.0,4496.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4496.0,4496.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So it was just me and my parents and whoever I saw outside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4496.0,4503.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. You said that your dad lost a few family members.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4503.0,4512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes, he did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4512.0,4517.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Can I ask how many?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4517.0,4522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I believe it was one cousin, a brother and his wife and a sister. I think it was like four or five of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4522.0,4537.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. But it was two of his siblings, it sounds like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4537.0,4541.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. So one was like an unfortunate event and then the other one was COVID.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4541.0,4547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Did this affect him and or you at all? I don't know. I guess, these things affect everyone differently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4547.0,4568.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I do recall thinking, like, \"How can this happen?\" I know we were losing family members and friends, and I think he was aware of it, but it hit him different when it was his brother. He was extremely close to him and the fact that he couldn't go and see him was like something that he couldn't do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4568.0,4599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And he was very close to him. So I know that one definitely had a more emotionally drained than the other, and his wife passed away too. So that was terrible for that family. They lost a mother and father or grandfather and grandmother or sister and brother. It was just horrible within like a week apart or something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4599.0,4622.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Uh, yes. I should ask. Did you lose anyone that you were particularly close?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4622.0,4638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4638.0,4640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4640.0,4640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I mean, I knew everyone, but it wasn't close, close, close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4640.0,4652.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. I did want to ask you if there's any -- especially the first few months of the pandemic -- was there any one experience -- again, you've already described the train -- but was there any one experience or moment or specific thing that happened that to you like defined that period of time for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4652.0,4683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I guess other than the train was seeing New York city streets empty. And now the people that I was walking with were soldiers in the city. And I dunno, it was just very empty, strange. That was my routine: work and home, work, home, work, home. So those are the things I had to experience. [crosstalk] Being glued to the TV and watching the rates go up, that was horrible. At some point, I'm like, \"Okay, I have to stop watching this.\" The toilet paper was running out. Like it was crazy stuff. So I don't know. There's definitely like messing up people's minds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4683.0,4749.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh yeah. Yeah. That's for sure. When you said that the people you were walking with were soldiers, what did you mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4749.0,4757.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Literally, there were a whole bunch of soldiers in the city. So when everything's shut down, my morning route, or commute was people, regular people, or the people that I saw every morning. And now, as I'm buying a coffee, there's like two or three soldiers there, or they were in the nearby hotels all coming out doing their job because now everything is shut down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4757.0,4783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4783.0,4783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So I went from, like I said, being a New Yorker to feeling like I was in a war zone in a way, or in a pandemic -- is the actual word. Was very different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4783.0,4805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: You said that at the end of July -- I think it was at the end of July -- that you lost your job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4805.0,4811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4811.0,4811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. And that must've been a pretty quick pivot around to go get your CPM though.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4811.0,4820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I did that while the pandemic was happening. So I got my CPM by June 29th, and then I got my project management certificate by July, and then I've kind of been in and out of studying for the state exam until now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4820.0,4836.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. I have to ask, how did it feel to lose your job? Did you have a sense that that was going to come or was it surprising?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4836.0,4848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It was a little bit surprising because of how it was done. I feel like communication is key and I literally blinked and I was let go. So I wasn't too happy about that. I mean, after being with a company for almost five years, you would expect some kind of better communication, at least a week heads up or two -- we are in a pandemic, you know, I am human. So I was slightly upset about that, but I understood what was going on. I wasn't upset about losing my job because of the pandemic, it was just how they let me go. I guess I'm way more compassionate than an average person. I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but it was okay for August cause it was still the summer, but September was really hard for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4848.0,4913.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I guess that's when it started sinking in and then I started losing a sense of who I was. You go to work, you get your coffee, you have a routine, you go get your salads or whatever. And now it's like, I don't have a routine. I don't have somewhere to go to. And what should I do next? Should I just focus on school? Should I try to find a job? Do I really need one right now? Is things going to get better? But should I get the first thing that I need because we're in a pan-- [trails off] It's just been a tug of war with me. So I decided to not take a job until 2021, which is around the corner, because I really wanted to study and take this time for myself so that I can take this license and pass it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4913.0,4964.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: We're now here, literally, to the last stage of that. And I do hope that I pass. I don't want to take that more than once. I really don't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4964.0,4973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Which license is that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4973.0,4974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's called PMP. It's a project management professional license.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4974.0,4979.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. So you took the course now you're going to get the license.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4979.0,4982.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4982.0,4982.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Is CPM also a license?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4982.0,4986.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, it's like a certificate. A certain amount of hours that you take and it's credited. And then the second half was another accredited certification that I needed to take in order to even apply for the state exam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=4986.0,5007.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay. Have you applied for the state exam?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5007.0,5013.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes, it got approved back in the beginning of October. Then I had to pay for it, so being unemployed and paying like $600 for this license is not fun. So I had to pay for it. Then I just gave myself time slowly to just study and keep trying to get in tune with this. And at some point this month, I am going to take the leap of faith and hopefully get it out of my way and start a new year with some more stuff under my resume and hope for the best.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5013.0,5054.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Do you know what you want to do once you get that license?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5054.0,5060.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It would be nice to apply it. So the license is very general. It's just project management for anything versus the CPM. If I stay in construction because of all the knowledge that I have and stuff I thought about doing project management for interior design, since it kind of goes hand in hand with the whole construction experience. If not, then I would like to use it for something more creative, like photography. Project coordinating, or project management and directing. But honestly, I don't know what the future holds for me, I don't know what's next. So I think I am just going with the flow, keeping my eye out for opportunity and stay positive and adaptable, flexible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5060.0,5119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: No, I know that you've just said that you don't know what the future holds for you, so you can disregard any of my next questions, but I would wonder if you think the future holds Queens or not Queens at some point?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5119.0,5137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Not Queens at some point. Eventually I want to find home and start my own belief system and my own thing apart from everything that I already know. I don't know where that is yet. I seriously still feel like I'm soul searching and figuring some stuff out. And the setback without a job is not helping that mentality either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5137.0,5196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: If you had not grown up here -- if you had grown up with your parents elsewhere -- do you think that Queens, could have been a destination then or is it definitely not? It would never have been on the table?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5196.0,5214.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I think it would have. I like New York, you know? I don't mind Queens. I just happened to live here for the last 29 years of my life. [laughs] So yeah, I like it. I don't really have a problem with it. It could have been an option, but I guess since I'm trying to start something new in the near future, I would venture off and find home somewhere else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5214.0,5247.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: This is a hard question, I know, but when you think of finding home, what is home? Are you able to define home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5247.0,5257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I only know bits and pieces of it. I definitely want to be closer to nature and that I can drive to a city. I do like warmer weather. I don't mind the winter, so if I end up in like Jersey or like somewhere that is a little cold, it's not a problem -- or like another state. But home to me is somewhere where I could be more of myself apart from my parents and start my own beliefs in a modern way. I guess it's very Hispanic and Dominican here, so I guess just a place that allows me to be more of myself by nature.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5257.0,5314.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: And it is a place though? When you think of home, is it possible -- I wonder this because I wonder it for myself -- that you might find the place before you find home? Like you might end up in a place that could be home, but it's not home when you get there. But it becomes—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5314.0,5335.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah. When I originally wanted to go to Arizona was because I felt like Arizona was picking me. I've never been to Arizona before, but something about Sedona and Phoenix, I just kind of wanted to go. I actually went to explore it to see if I liked it. And I also went to San Francisco to explore that to see if I liked because I was looking outwards, I guess, to see if another state would have been it for me. I also have a cousin in North Carolina and I'm very close to her. So I also kind of want to go explore where she is. And I think home to me also is what I see, it's also like a feeling, a vision, a visual thing for me. So it's not only a place or a state or a town. It's also who I hear what I see, how it smells. I'm one of those. If it's not like where I want it to be, I have to make it back because it will make me mentally comfortable. I think I'm looking for a place where I feel more whole and it's like a perception of something that I feel like it's me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5335.0,5423.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Do you think that once you find that place you'll stay there or do you think that you'll always be moving?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5423.0,5428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I don't know. Maybe I'll stay there. Maybe I don't. I guess it'll depend on my circumstances or what are my priorities at that time. I don't know. I really don't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5428.0,5448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I wanted to ask you one other thing. Actually I want to ask you two more things. Is that okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5448.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: That's fine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5460.0,5461.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Cool. Thanks. Something you just said a few minutes ago, I think you said you wanted to start your own life in a modern way. And then you said it's very Hispanic and Dominican here. And I wondered what did you mean when you said that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5461.0,5480.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: You have to be Dominican to understand. I'm always gonna love being here, obviously. This is my home. Right? But I feel like I need a space to think for myself. So like having like my mom and her traditional ways getting into my believes or my way of thinking or how -- it's not a bad thing. What I'm trying to say is not a bad thing, like being Dominican or being Hispanic or being in this home. It's just that it's not me, it's them. I feel like I still need to explore me apart from them. So if that makes any sense. I guess the music, the Spanish speaking, the loudish -- my mom's so loud. She's so funny. Like her dialect of speaking is just, she's hilarious. She's a special one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5480.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: When you do depart then, is there going to be some kind of, I don't know, almost renegotiation of your history and your life. Like that part of your identity, is it going to, are you going to consciously hold on to things and let other things go or do you expect, are you going to let everything go? Do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5550.0,5581.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I know I'll hold on to some stuff. But there's a lot of things that I would let go of too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5581.0,5590.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Do you know what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5590.0,5591.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I got to think right now. I guess if I'm really thinking right now, it might not be a Dominican thing. I think it's just my family. I can't speak for everyone. Everybody has different family traditions and way of being or how family traditions are built and stuff. I feel like here, like Christmas isn't a huge thing here, but it became a big thing because my brother's family is huge on it and I love that. Or like, I don't recall ever having like a huge Thanksgiving dinner here, but I will go to my friend's house and have it there. So I think just like certain events have unfortunately shaped my parents in a certain way. And I'm very social and I like memory and I like friends and families come over and they're very, just like to themselves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5591.0,5666.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Ah, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5666.0,5669.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I was like, \"Maybe it's not as a Mexican thing. Maybe it's just my family.\" Like if it was up to me, it would be joy and happiness and memories all day long but because of their tradition and how they operate, they do things extremely differently. So I just think that our interests are different. Maybe their definition of happiness is different from mine. Maybe what I'm missing, they don't even think about. I can keep going on and on and on. I think that's why I was telling you earlier, I think it's more of like a visual thing or what I'm hearing daily, or what am I seeing daily. While I'm here meditating and putting sound waves and trying to keep Zen, but then within my four walls, two rooms down, I hear Spanish music and I'm like, \"Oh my God, I just kind of want to be Zen. Like today, I just want to put a candle on.\" So it's like, it's two different worlds. It really is. It has nothing to do, I don't hate them or like anything like that, but we're just two different people. That's really it. I admire painting and having like two other friends paint and let's talk about life and they're okay just sitting there watching soap opera, and I'm like, \"What the hell we can relate.\" [phone going off in background] So I think it's just my interest versus them and how they have a perception of their life versus how I see mine. I want to do yoga in the middle of my living room, but they're watching soap opera. I can't do these things. So this is what I'm saying. I don't think that's a Dominican thing. I think it's just like, \"Oh my family.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5669.0,5778.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. You said they're watching soap opera and you wanted to put -- what was the music? You said [unclear]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5778.0,5785.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: No, I had like meditation or vibrational sounds, or like, I want to turn on a candle and put some Sage and just cleanse my air and open up a window and water my plants. And like two rooms down is soap opera, Dominican food, Dominican music. And my mom's on the phone and it's a whole other world out there. So I think that's what home is to me. Just being able to take what I have built in his room and put it apart and then start my own tradition. Okay. I want to come in home and put a candle on and I'm right in the middle of my living room meditating today. Fantastic. Nobody's going to tell me anything. [laughs] It's more like just being in my own space, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5785.0,5836.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Well, I am happy to hear about it. Do you think that once you -- I promise this is my last of it -- but I just want to know if you were to move to Sedona or something or San Francisco [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5836.0,5852.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I love Sedona. Sedona is so spiritual. I connect with so many people. They're known for like energy Vertex. You can hike. It's by nature. It's beautiful. I know this is not an excuse where I try to give you like a definition of being an artist, but it really helps me mentally to see something completely different in front of me. Because when I'm in a dark place, looking at the same wall, it's just not going to help. But when you change scenery and your mind now is looking at something new, when you're hearing something new, and you're smelling something new, or you're in a different atmosphere. I'm huge on energy, so I feel like certain environments can affect you. Certain tones can affect you, lighting. Some people like being in dim light. Some people love the city and all that noise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5852.0,5911.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Me, I'd rather just be in a farm somewhere running, walking my dog or something. I don't know. So I think that that's huge for me. Setting myself up for balance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5911.0,5924.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5924.0,5924.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: And the pandemic hasn't helped because while I'm trying to study, it became very hard to be between four walls, the same four walls when versus prepandemic, I could've went to a library or I could have went to a coffee shop. I missed that. Like changing environments to be able to concentrate has became such a huge issue for me. I can't concentrate right now in this room.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5924.0,5954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh Gosh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5954.0,5954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yes. So I've like literally took my book and laptop and went to my brother's house. Took headphones and I try to study there and they think I'm crazy. They're like, \"How you studying with all this noise?\" Cause like I said, my family is loud and I'm just like, \"I just needed a change of atmosphere.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5954.0,5971.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5971.0,5973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I can't even go to like Starbucks and sit down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5973.0,5977.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Totally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5977.0,5977.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It's sad, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5977.0,5978.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: It is sad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5978.0,5978.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: It is very sad. I can't even go to a library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5978.0,5986.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I miss the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5986.0,5988.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Me too! You know, how many times throughout the summer, I just wanted to go to a library and study? And instead I had to go to my backyard or let me try to go to a park and sit on the grass. But then, I don't know, should I sit next to these people? I'm were wearing a mask. It was just, it's just a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=5988.0,6010.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: The library is special because it can be so -- there are so many distractions there, but they all add up into a nice, comfortable place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6010.0,6019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah. Because you're there to be in silence and be inside a book. That's what the library is showing you and this is where I say, like \"Your environment and what you hear and what you see can help you adapt to what you're trying to do in front of you.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6019.0,6036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah, totally. And it'd be why I walk so much. 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And I think it's why I love psychology. Apart from being an artist, psychology, huge. Everything that has to do with my mind, my mental health is huge. If I'm not happy up there, we're not going to do fine anywhere else. So for me, before anything, I have like a checklist [crosstalk]. And before it used to be huge. My instructions, like, \"what am I going to do today to keep me balanced?\" Whether it was like --I think I told -- you like a class or I used to go to meditation every Sunday morning. I miss that. I would wake up. I would drive to Williamsburg. I'd go to my favorite coffee place that shut down. I'll go to my meditation class, for like an hour and a half. And then I'll take a stroll by the water. I can't get the coffee. I can't take the class. My sanity is broken. 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I took my little cousin the other day --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6102.0,6106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6106.0,6108.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: -- to see Domino Park. Have you been?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6108.0,6111.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I haven't been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6111.0,6112.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/357","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: You need to go. It's nice. But it is getting cold now. So yeah, it's just been interesting. I definitely could say that I lost a lot of motivation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6112.0,6123.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/358","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6123.0,6126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Like I used to go to the gym five times a week or take some kind of boxing class. And it was like, I don't know if I can even go in the gym or there's a line outside of the gym, or like, I don't know what to do anymore. [laughs] I really don't. I really don't. So—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6126.0,6144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: It's a different world that we may be in for a long time. 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I did want to ask you: if you were to move to Sedona, would your parents visit you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6158.0,6176.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: [laughs] They think I'm crazy. Would they visit me? Just the fact that it was like a six hour flight, they might lose their noodles because they only fly to like two to three hour flights from here. I think they would, but they will be in complete shock because that will be so left for me to do or anyone in my family. We're all very close, but something inside of me is yelling, \"Explore, run, go find yourself!\" And the pandemic said, \"No, we're going to stick to your family like glue right now, girl.\" So it's a weird place right now for me. I feel like, between losing my career path and not knowing what's next and like wanting to move out, but then stuck and not being able to continue to explore or plan to throw me off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6176.0,6238.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/364","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. You know I often think to myself, I moved to New York about a year, --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6238.0,6247.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Oh wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6247.0,6247.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/366","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: -- in like November of 2019.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6247.0,6250.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/367","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Where were you from before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6250.0,6251.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/368","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Chicago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6251.0,6253.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Ooh, I pass by Chicago. I had a layover. That's all I did","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6253.0,6258.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Fly over city. So I came here like four or five months before the pandemic. If I had waited, I would have been stuck at home and back there -- I don't know if that's home, but where I was from -- and I often think that I was lucky to get here when I did, because I don't know where I'd be. 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We're just in a weird place right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6292.0,6337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/372","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6337.0,6337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/373","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: But Zoom 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Yeah, life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6359.0,6361.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I do too. I really do. I go back and forth here, [laughs] but I hope that something happens for the better. Terrified though. Always terrified.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6361.0,6376.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/387","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Don't be! Meditate. [laughs] Let it go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6376.0,6379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/388","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: I meditate. I feel like I'm just glued to like, \"Oh my God, is it going to shut down? What's the hospital, what's going on at the numbers now? Where are we? Like, what's going to happen next? Why aren't we shutting down? Just so—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6379.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/389","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Yeah. I kinda disconnected from all of that. 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And at some point after my 21st birthday, I decided to take a whole year and try different foods everywhere, all over New York, all over and not repeat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6443.0,6483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6483.0,6483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/399","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I got to learn so much culture. So this is the place of culture. If it takes one restaurant a week or one takeout, whatever you want to do, you could do that too. I did that for a whole year. [crosstalk] Unfortunately, some of them are not open right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6483.0,6502.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/400","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh God. What was your favorite?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6502.0,6509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/401","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I don't have a favorite [crosstalk] I don't have a favorite. I just like food, but, I do recall going to a lot of them because of their interior work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6509.0,6522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Oh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6522.0,6523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/403","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: How they design, even if I did 10 Mexican restaurants, each one was designed differently and I was intrigued by that. And I was like, \"Oh, look at this one.\" Or I went to this Indian restaurant and in the city and they decorated with Christmas lights all year round.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6523.0,6544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/404","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6544.0,6544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/405","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: So that was pretty cool. You know? And just like the culture behind that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6544.0,6549.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah. Yeah. I feel like the experience is -- and that's of course something that's missing in a way right now -- but the experience really is almost to me actually more important than, like the food is only one part of this bigger experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6549.0,6569.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: I mean, you could literally go a few blocks down and you run into a whole different culture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6569.0,6573.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6573.0,6573.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Like 70 something street compared to like Jackson Heights, like 80 something street is like two different cultures. [crosstalk] You go a little bit more down. Now I go to Flushing and I was like, you're in China. So it's like, if you really want to know culture, I think this is the time. Not everything is open, like I said, but even in the city, there's so many beautiful water views. I have crossed every bridge in New York. I love bridges and I follow certain sculptures around New York city or different water views. I like water. So anything next to the water, it makes me happy. I even had a picnic like a month ago. It was freezing by the beach. So it's like, you have to find -- I know this is crazy -- but you have to find like beauty within other stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6573.0,6626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6626.0,6626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Do you need some help? I'll make a whole list for you. I will give you a bucket list. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6626.0,6633.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Hey, I wouldn't mind the bucket list. I mean, I just discover, so I feel like there's so much to discover everywhere just in this borough and this neighborhood, but also everywhere here. Yeah, there's a lot to see. And a lot of people. I like the people here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6633.0,6656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/413","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: That's good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6656.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: But I also [laughs] can't just be like standing on the outside. I can't, you know, just be a gawker like, \"Oh my God, I just love the people here.\" and just stay out of everything. No, I need to be part of the community. Um, yeah, I'm going to let you go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6660.0,6682.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jofeliny Franco: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6682.0,6682.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729/transcript/49572/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Thill: Thank you for so much fo your time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/106902/file/207729#t=6682.0,6682.6449"}]}]}]}