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baby. But I'll give you another Halloween Halloween Halloween. Well I think that it happened to me why because I love Children. And over there we have us um well on the mexican Children they speak. It's the most spanish and I can get along better

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speaking the language than the other language and they are beautiful and so cute and so good. What about the some of the meeting Mexico And I was right there. Country Section 1950. Why do you feel more? Why I get together with the Mexicans? I feel more

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better there then with the american party. Because well we talk in spanish and Mhm. We have our culture, you know. Come on in. Mhm. My grandmother who was dying of cancer and I wanted to tell her what I thought about her, what I felt about her

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um remind her of some experiences that we've had and just talk with her and be with her. And every other word practically came out of my mouth in spanish I had to stop and ask my aunts and uncles, how do you say this? What's the word

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for? And I was really horrified because I lost my languages what had happened. And I didn't really and very sad. So I came back to Oakland signed up at Merritt College right away for a spanish class and began to study again. But what was interesting it

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was to chicano studies that I took the class. So half the class was devoted to spanish and half the class too well. Politics or Chikane is more if you will which was very exciting for me. Was very, I thought radical and and really far out at

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the time. But it was very interesting to me to find out what was happening in the world of chicanos. I I really had been living in a very anglicized kind of world. And so, okay. No. S. E noise. Do you live in Auckland? Mm hmm. Yeah.

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I live in open and that's something I had lost was beginning to be awakened again in me. And it was, it's a very important picture. I know where it is. My grandmother's very wide faced. She had a long, I envy real shock, I must admit, especially

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earlier in the marriage and sometimes even now, but this is not the problem now that it was earlier for instance, in my family, anybody new comes into the house. Well, you just welcomed in. You offered some food and if they're your friends, well, they're part of

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their, part of you and they're part of the family. Well, there's much more reticence I've noticed in many anglo families, there's a little bit more formal. Um, I was somewhat inhibited and perhaps it was my life is being a mother and having my Children and we'll

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be with them. And the most time I have I have to spend with them. What do you think? A woman? Well, oh boy. Mm hmm. Happy without Children. Okay. Thanks for Yeah, I talked to them like my grandfather. He was a revolutionary. Yeah. And we

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talked to them about that. And then my uncle he was with that. I don't know if you hear about that to Kordell when he got into the fields and plant some plants and that that uh cordelia come and then destroy it. And then my uncle, he

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was the side of the poor people. And I talked to my Children about that too second culture. Because if we speak them in in spanish in our house, they never lose their culture and the language. Mhm Yes, cultures is very interesting because your Children, well, they're

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doubly rich. You see, I don't tell my Children you're chicano and nothing else. And tell them you're chicano because of this. My family, my parents, my grandparents came from Mexico and they hear the music, they eat the food. They go to meetings with me. They're learning

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spanish. They didn't speak it when they were babies. I didn't speak it to them. And I'm sorry about that. But I didn't have the facility myself. But then There's a meeting at 4:00 PMclock rasa educated to find better and different ways of organizing parents. We just

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I think it would be one of our goals for this series to organize parents. And I think a lot of men in business say, oh yes, we'd love to have those bilingual girls. They're such nice secretaries. You know. And we're very valuable as secretaries. And it's

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time that people see our values as human beings and is capable of doing a lot of other things as being doctors and lawyers and anything else we want to be teachers, professional people I guess like like other women are in that we're trying to find ways

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to express ourselves other than just in the home where it has been a pretty traditional picture. Forget it since time in memorial. In fact, perhaps the chicano has worked outside of the home more than more than the anglo woman say. Because the financial reasons I have

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families who were Children is the best for them, you know, together ah good education and to learn learn the more they can't because it's the only for our poor people is the only thing that we can have education to get a better thanks to live. Mhm,

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mm hmm.