So, going through this project, you've interviewed some people in your community. What are some of the things they brought up to talk about?

Like, how safe the neighborhood is, and to other people, the neighborhood being City Heights, and what they would tell them about City Heights, and how is it in here, and diversity.

What are some things about how diverse City Heights is, like what kinds of people live there?

We have a lot of people, like all over the world, and country. Like, our place is diverse, the business is diverse, our culture is diverse, our food is diverse, and when you walk down the street you could see a lot of people that you don't even know, and they're from the other country you know? And that is very interesting, to learn culture and new people.

Through this project, have you learned anything about other people in your community?

Oh yes, I learned, about people I'd never heard of, and like, how they used to live in City Heights back in the day compared to now, and how the changes have been made.

What kinds of people, changes have there been?

Just like a lot of changes, like back then it was crazy, it was a lot of crazy, a lot of, you know, negativity going on, but now the city is improving the community, you know, helping each other out, improve the community by working together, and contacting, connection with other community.

What's been your favorite part of the project so far?

My favorite part of the project is getting answers, interesting answers from the person I've interviewed. Sometimes, I don't even know about their personal life, and how they live, and how their life impacted the city, and how fun it is.

How does it feel to have an interview that you've recorded be played back on something like a website?

Like, nervous, like I've never been on a website like that you know? But, it's kinda nervous, and kinda shy, but I'm excited.

Do you guys have any questions?

No.

Thanks.

Any last thoughts?

Any questions? Esther? 

What is the difference you feel moving from Oklahoma to here?

When I used to live in Oklahoma, it's not very diverse, most of the population is Caucasian, you know? And yeah, it's not very diverse like here. We have a lot of people, a lot of diversity, a lot of population, and a lot of languages, you know? Plus, we know about them. We know about the diversity. Over there, like, we don't know much, and the main language was English, and that's basically it.

As a second language student here in the United States, how was it to learn English? Like how quick did you learn it?

It was hard, I'm not going to lie, English is a very hard language. I didn't learn English until middle school, and high school. It was complicated when I first moved here. I didn't know how to speak English and I didn't know where to go and it's hard to communicate with each other when they don't know what you're speaking and what you're going through. It takes time, you know?

So now you're pretty much comfortable with English right now. When you go out from your school or your community to other,some most white populated society, do you feel comfortable speaking English over there or is the same thing?

I feel comfortable speaking English, you know, cause we gotta, we have to show them we can speak the language too, even though we're from other country, when we come to new country, we have to learn the language, learn how to get around. We have to be confident, like yeah, we can do this.

In City Heights it's such a diverse community. What do you learn from there? Like different people?

I learn a lot from like, different culture, and some of us, we have similar background, like refugee camp, you know? Some of us, we came from country in refugee, we're going through stuff right now. That means some of us have similar backgrounds, so even though we're not able to communicate with languages, we could know what they're going through, and their background and we could relate to that. That makes us part of their life.

So you ran into some missionaries yesterday, were you expecting that?

I didn't expect that, I didn't.

What are the different ethnicities that you hang out with in school?

I hang out with everybody, Mexican, African, other Asian, you know? I hang out with mostly everybody from other country cause it's good to be learning about new culture, you know, that you never know of. It's good to learn new things.

Can you tell specifically what are the other Asian people?

There's a lot of Asian, I'm not gonna lie, cause when I first came here, a lot of people thought I was Cambodian, because of my skin color, or I don't know. But I'm Karen, you know? There's a lot of Asian, there's South Asian, like North Korea, South Korea, China, and ,yeah,  all of them they're from the other side of Asia, you know? And the other Asia that we live in is Southeast Asia, that's where like, the war is going on, and where we're struggling. Not…well we could say it as like the poor Asia, you know, like the middle level Asia right there, yeah. A lot of Asian.

For people who may not know, where is Karen?

Karen is not a country yet, because right now my people are still going to war, since World War 2, between Burma and Thailand, it's in a river, and it's in between Burma and Thailand in a jungle.

We're almost out of battery here, so, thank you. Yes.