No more tears...
Jun. 7th, 2007 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13For the past two days, I've been doing some pretty emotional interviews.
I'm currently working on a piece about Filipina nannies who come to Canada on the live in caregiver program. These women have to speak English or French and have a university degree, and work 24 months in order to get permanent residency and eventually a visa. They often have to work two or three jobs, to send a lot of money back home and then have to get a Canadian degree in order to get a professional job in this country. I interviewed about 5 of them last night and one started talking about how her first employer cheated her and how she had to go to Human resources Canada to get things straightened out. She got teary just talking about it.
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I'm doing another piece on skateboarders and today I interviewed the owner of a skateshop here. He's been so successful that he's opened up three branches of his store. He had spent time living in Vancouver and was friends with Lee Matasi, the skateboarder/skate artist who was shot on Richards in 2005. I told him that I'd heard the story, and had seen their poster in the window about Lee and was wondering about the connection. So we talked about it for a long time, and he talked about how hard it had been to lose his best friend, and how there were constant reminders of him around, until he actually started bawling. It was hard and I could tell that I sounded and was acting exactly like my mom when I was trying to comfort him. Anyway, it was a good interview and both these stories have been extremely fulfilling to work on. It's just been a bit of an emotional ride.
I'm currently working on a piece about Filipina nannies who come to Canada on the live in caregiver program. These women have to speak English or French and have a university degree, and work 24 months in order to get permanent residency and eventually a visa. They often have to work two or three jobs, to send a lot of money back home and then have to get a Canadian degree in order to get a professional job in this country. I interviewed about 5 of them last night and one started talking about how her first employer cheated her and how she had to go to Human resources Canada to get things straightened out. She got teary just talking about it.
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I'm doing another piece on skateboarders and today I interviewed the owner of a skateshop here. He's been so successful that he's opened up three branches of his store. He had spent time living in Vancouver and was friends with Lee Matasi, the skateboarder/skate artist who was shot on Richards in 2005. I told him that I'd heard the story, and had seen their poster in the window about Lee and was wondering about the connection. So we talked about it for a long time, and he talked about how hard it had been to lose his best friend, and how there were constant reminders of him around, until he actually started bawling. It was hard and I could tell that I sounded and was acting exactly like my mom when I was trying to comfort him. Anyway, it was a good interview and both these stories have been extremely fulfilling to work on. It's just been a bit of an emotional ride.
