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I'm Oksana Kondrashova, a librarian at Glen Oaks library. And today we have interview for Queens Memory Project, and the series that Glen Oaks library conducts is Home Away From Home- South Asians in Eastern Queens. And we have our guest. Could you please say your full name and spell it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Hasnat Minnat. First name Hasnat, H A S N A T. And last name Minnat, M I N N A T.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=38.0,51.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Thank you, Hasnat. But you mentioned before that you have a nickname that you would like me to refer to you. So that name, what is that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=51.0,66.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: My nickname is Vina.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=66.0,69.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Okay Vina, so we continue our recording and I also want 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/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=69.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=92.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Thank you. And so we are recording today with Vina on February 18th, 2021. So that's interesting moment that you mentioned about using your nickname. And you also said that, previously in pre-interviewing, that your grandma called you that and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=92.0,131.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=131.0,134.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Name associated with an instrument, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=134.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes. An Indian instrument.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=139.0,143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Do you play that instrument or anybody in your family played?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=143.0,148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: No, I did not. Actually my grandma, she loved music and maybe this was her favorite instrument and she gave me this name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=148.0,161.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Beautiful. I listened to some music of that instrument and it really does sound beautiful. And you said that your grandma loved to sing. Do you remember any songs? Do you remember a few lines, can you share with us?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=161.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: She used to sing every day. Every time. Yeah. And mostly some of the folk song in Bangladesh. Different time, different songs. We were sitting together and she will ask me something in a song, like this is a song,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=183.0,216.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Do you have a memory of her singing- any that was your favorite or stuck with you or sometimes it comes to you? Maybe when you were with your children or, you know, with other children that you want to share with them? Did you have those moments that you- like a few lines you would like to share? 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How it sounds [unclear]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=256.0,261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Grandma used to sing when my little cousins- they're younger, much younger than me- and when they are around, she used to sing in Bengali [speaks in Bangla]- that means \"come and see my little orange is dancing\"-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=261.0,291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Oh that's beautiful!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=291.0,291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: #NAME?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=291.0,296.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: It is, it is very nice. It is very nice. And, so what can you say about your childhood, was it a happy childhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=296.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: It was a happy childhood. When you mentioned that, it took me in that period. I can see myself playing in the playground. We are going to school. Now that time, when I grew up in Bangladesh, it was very safe. My dad was a chemistry professor at university, and we grew up in that campus, like university campus. We went for the school, only employee of that university, their children, they go to that school, but it was called [speaks in Bengali] University school, [but it's not an universities elementary school when we used to work. But now I don't think anybody work, be a company with parents now- unclear]. At that time it was safe and we used to walk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=306.0,371.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So you have happy memories from your childhood and the school years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=371.0,379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah, [unclear] after school we used to go to the playground. We used to play the tag, like badminton. I remember those things. Those are [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=379.0,393.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Any other games that you played with your friends, siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=393.0,401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: We liked to play lots of board games over there. I dunno you heard about that [unclear]? These are things we love to play, but we love to also badminton. Badminton. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=401.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: I love it too. I think it's a nice game. It's a nice game. So do you have any siblings that you were growing up with them also?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=421.0,433.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah. I have one younger sister and one younger brother. My brother is like 14 years younger than me and my sister is one year younger than me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=433.0,447.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Oh, okay. So you were very close with your sister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=447.0,453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=453.0,453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Practically the same age. So when you graduate school, then you went to the same university where your father was working?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=453.0,472.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: I went to the same university. Over there, the education system is like, first grade to 10th grade in one school. And then after that, we have to take exams, school final exam. It's like here, the student takes city-wide exam. It's called a secondary school certificate. That's [unclear]. And after that, we go to school in different school. That is two years, like 11th and 12th. After that high school, then university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=472.0,516.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Oh, okay. All right. So what prompt you to choose to go to university? Did your mom work? Did your mom work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=516.0,529.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes. She was a school teacher, my dad also in education. Yeah. And my dad is chemistry professor and I took major biochemistry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=529.0,547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Oh, wow. That's a difficult subject, I would say. Very complex, very complex. So I see that you mentioning it- I don't know this country well, I just know that it's very beautiful country with the lush nature and beautiful weather. So then it means that women were allowed to, you know, get the education and then work, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=547.0,589.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah. I know what they are to my family. Also, my mom did masters, my aunt, they're all educated. Yeah. So we came here like for higher education. We used to see my other cousin, they came here, but I came here with my husband and I didn't [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=589.0,621.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Okay. So, back in your country, when you finish your students years, how it was to be a student in Bangladesh when you were to college? 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The environment was like, on the same campus and over there, you know, I go- now is very expensive here to pay the tuition, it's very expensive. Over there is not. It's government funded. And based on my high school results, I got the scholarship. So it was not expensive at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=679.0,718.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So people could afford it. I mean, if you were a good student. What happened if, let's say like, I understand you were a good student, but what happened with those people, let's say that they were not really good students, but still wanted to have higher education. 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Was it like you were assigned to any place or you have to look for the job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=786.0,815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah, actually after I finished my college education, I went with my husband to Saudi Arabia because my husband was working in Saudi Arabia at that time, when I got married. Then I had to finish the exam and I moved there. Over there, I didn't work. It was like, you know, Saudi Arabia. It's not like here, you can't go out. And so after that, I went back to Bangladesh. My husband was still there, but my two sons, they born and there is no school for them. 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The picture, they introduce me and it's arranged marriage. So, I used to go to university for my bachelor degree and I used to take geology, also. Biochemistry was my major, but I have geology and my professor is- she was my husband's sister-in-law. [Unclear] colleague also. So [unclear] she liked me and then my head, they, she introduced me like my parents, and then they decided to go,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=875.0,949.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So those marriages are very strong. And you had the connection through the family and you never had an issue to fight the family, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=949.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah. We grew up like that is going on generation after generation. That your parents- they pick the guy for their daughter, then they introduce. 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Was she helping you with your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1022.0,1031.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: No. She used to live in a different city. When I went back, I used to live with my parents and my mother-in-law's in the same city. 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Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1052.0,1057.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: My older son, he speaks fluently in Bangla, but- we've been gone and we call in Bangladesh, Bangla- but my younger son, he came here when he was four+, even start kindergarten here. 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Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1122.0,1125.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So you were- sometime, you were like separated?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1125.0,1130.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes. But when there was summer vacation, we used to go [unclear] every year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1130.0,1142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: How was that for the family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1142.0,1146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah. So, well, in Saudi Arabia, he was working in a hospital. 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Um, what type of doctor?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1171.0,1181.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Internal medicine. He was the medical specialist. That was the designation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1181.0,1192.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So how long did this last, that you were, you know, traveling and seeing each other for vacation? 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[Unclear] them that it was foreign medical grads would have to take before they start the residency. Yeah. So in American embassy, I think they have a center over there in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. He went there to take the exam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1282.0,1306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So, um, it looks like your husband and you, when you were studying your going to undergraduate school, graduate school, you study languages as well. What languages did you study there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1306.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: The books were in English, but we have to- English was compulsory from the first grade. The language English- we to in Bangladesh, it's compulsory, Bangla and English, but all the other books in this school, elementary school, were in Bangla, only one subject English we have to take.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1324.0,1351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So you said that after finishing university, you didn't have a chance to work. Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1351.0,1366.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Right away, I went to Saudi Arabia. Um, in-between when I used to come to Bangladesh for like four months, I used to stay there and I used to work. And my mom was a principal in one school. 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Did you like it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1392.0,1395.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: I did. I liked it so much. Even though my subject was biochemistry, I never, never took that route. In lab, I never worked. 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First grade, second grade, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1414.0,1420.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: What especially you like about your job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1420.0,1426.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: I like to work with the little kids. They're so innocent and it's amazing to work with them. [Crosstalk] particularly here when I'm working with the Pre-K. 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Children, are very joyful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1449.0,1451.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah, every little things I enjoy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1451.0,1463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Vina, when you came to United States on the first trip in 1994, was there something that striked you, were you surprised or backward was something that you discover was for yourself- it wasn't the way you thought about this country. What was your impression, what you were feeling when you came to see this country first time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1463.0,1499.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Even though we started English from the first grade, but speaking is different. Reading and writing is different. So language barrier was also difficult for me because I was not fluent in English. I could read, write, but in term of English, it was very broken. That was the one thing. And the accent, it was harder for me to understood, but otherwise I liked it. My sister in law, she's in Chicago and two other brother-in-law. So we went there to visit them. My aunt was in Washington, DC. 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Before it was so safe you can- the children used to go to school by themselves. No worry at all, but, uh, now, no, it's not that safe. Nobody let the student, their children go by themselves. Everybody accompany they're a little scared. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1702.0,1727.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: That they were scared. So you packed and in 1998, and you said, here we come, where did you decide to come? 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There's so many people from our country and the way there also is very cold in Chicago, after his finishing the residency, he took a job here that time we fell in love with New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1750.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So, what hospital did- hospital he had the residency or was-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1799.0,1806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes, he got- hospital is in Brooklyn, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. 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Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=1820.0,1835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Even though his hospital, it was in Brooklyn, but he had other friends in, we have friends in Queens, Astoria, so we decided to live in that area because we know them and nobody would have any idea, just complete stranger we knew nobody! So at least we knew our friends, so we just decided to stay near them. So we rented a house in Astoria from '98 to 2004, we were there. 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And even though you are still away from home, you don't miss that much. And in Saudi Arabia also, there's so many employees in the hospital. They are from India and Pakistan. I go, I make friends with them and I learned their language, like Hindi and Urdu. So now here, so many Indian and Pakistani and I can speak their language. So it was good for me to talk to them. So I was not, I didn't feel that, like, lonely. [Crosstalk] Saudi Arabia when all over there, I can't go out by myself. Yeah. I have [unclear] in the house, like all day long. When my husband came home, then we used to go out, but I can'y go out. But here I can go out shopping and library, everything. I can go by myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2007.0,2138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So you- that's wonderful. And do you- so you can say that the neighborhood that you, and that feeling, being home, that you felt in your country, because it was your home, this, this is now you feel the same in your new, in your new home, which has been quite [crosstalk]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2138.0,2171.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: I miss my country. Of course, I miss my family. Yeah. But [unclear] in a environment, where's nobody from that, I don't know anybody. That would be difficult for me. Like, now I go out and I can buy foods that I like, [unclear]. 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It is hard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2212.0,2224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: What was especially hard for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2224.0,2227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Language was the difficult part for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2227.0,2231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Still language.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2231.0,2231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah. Now, no, but that time, when I first came here, the accent, I didn't understand [laughs]. And I couldn't speak that fluently that time, so it was harder for me. 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And with two young children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2249.0,2255.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: How did children assimilated? How did they feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2255.0,2261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: In the beginning, it was harder for them also. They used to ask me why we are here, why we came here. When everybody's there, why we are here? And their cousins were in Chicago. Sometimes they come to visit. We used to talk over phone, but no friends. Gradually, they made friends in the neighborhood with other children. I used to take them to the playground. They would make friends over there, in school. They started school. When we came here, it was month of May. June, July. Then they started school in September. So June, July, August three months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2261.0,2316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Excellent. And during these years, how would you say that community, where you living in Bellerose, how did it change? 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Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2392.0,2395.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So, now, when you came, when did you decide or thought about going back to work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2395.0,2404.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: When we came here in '98 and I think 2000, I used to start working as a translator. One of my friend, she helped me to get the interview and it was in Manhattan, early intervention program- an agency, city agency. So I used to work as a translator and assistant to a service coordinator who was working with Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu speaking parents, families. I used to help them with translation and their work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2404.0,2450.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: What was the name of that company?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2450.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: It was Functional Life Achievement in Madison Avenue, 32 street. I think it was there. And then we came, moved here. At that time, Astoria, the subway was very close to our house, like two blocks or three blocks. But when it's- it's not easier, subway is not here. I have to take bus and train. Then I didn't go back to work again. My son was in sixth grade when we came here in 2004. He started in September 6th grade, I think next year, 2005 or '06. I started like substitute, as a substitute paraprofession. And then, from 2007, I got permanent in this area, school. Yeah. PS 115.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2453.0,2521.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: What make you think about going back to school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2521.0,2526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: When I came here in Astoria, I used to, like, voluntary tutoring for my neighbors, my friends' children because I love to teach them. I still remember, they also love to come to my house and get help. And, when I came here, then I thought about that, that I can work as a- teaching will be harder for me, to get teacher, but, I have to take the test and, but paraprofessional will be easier for me. So, I was talking to one of my friend. I met her here in the park and she told me that, I will introduce you with my friend. She is working as a paraprofessional, maybe she will help you. And she introduced me and now she's a very good friend of mine. She helped me to get the interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2526.0,2595.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So what school do you work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2595.0,2597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Now I am working with PS. 115 is in 261 street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2597.0,2606.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: It's in your neighborhood, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2606.0,2611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yeah, it's not far, only five minutes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2611.0,2614.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: So do you see sometimes kids from your school and then they wave to you? How does it feel? [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2614.0,2622.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: I see them sometimes in the store, I went for grocery, I see it's one of my students, they're with their parents. It happens. Sometimes I met them in the doctor's office, sometimes in the library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2622.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Oh so, you live in a community and you work in community and that seems like it became your, like you said, another home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2640.0,2654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Yes, it is another home. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2654.0,2663.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: Um, Vina. I wanted to thank you for sharing with us your story and it was very interesting and I very much also like your grandma's beautiful songs that you translated for us, and I hope that you will have chance and reason to continue dancing and feeling like you were dancing through your life. Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2663.0,2711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hasnat Minnat: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2711.0,2711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845/transcript/48963/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oksana Kondrashova: I'm going to stop this video.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/64186/file/148845#t=2711.0,2716.63019"}]}]}]}