Time transcripts of Matthew compressed

[00:00:00:00]	Interviewer: Please state your name.

[00:00:03:07]	Matthew: Matthew.

[00:00:04:05]	Interviewer: Is there anything you'd like  to say about yourself?

[00:00:06:18]	Matthew: I'm a freshman at OSU, obviously, 

[00:00:10:10]	in AEPI, an environmental engineering major. 

[00:00:15:02]	Interviewer: Please continue with your narrative.

[00:00:17:02]	Matthew: So, I started taking Spanish  in 7th grade, 

[00:00:22:01]	when everyone in my school picked a language.

[00:00:24:11]	I picked Spanish just because  it was the most popular one.

[00:00:28:19]	Also my sister did Spanish,

[00:00:29:25]	so that way if I needed any help 

[00:00:31:06]	I would have someone in the house  who could help me.

[00:00:33:03]	And you know I took Spanish until 11th grade. 

[00:00:37:03]	And I always used it in the classroom.

[00:00:39:15]	I always did well in the academic setting.

[00:00:42:09]	I did all the exercises in the workbook,

[00:00:44:07]	but I never really had an experience to use it 

[00:00:46:28]	where I actually need to speak Spanish.

[00:00:48:15]	I was always doing it for exercise.

[00:00:50:07]	And also in high school  I was in a youth group called BBYO,

[00:00:55:25]	which was an international Jewish youth group,

[00:00:58:15]	and they had all these international programs

[00:01:01:16]	just like within the country,

[00:01:02:24]	but from kids all over like leadership stuff,

[00:01:05:09]	and they also had trips  you could go on around the country.

[00:01:07:22]	And I had never done one  all through high school.

[00:01:09:28]	So the summer before senior year 

[00:01:12:04]	and I wanted to go on one of these trips,

[00:01:13:11]	and one of them was to Costa Rica.

[00:01:15:19]	I was really excited for it.

[00:01:17:28]	 It was two weeks.

[00:01:18:26]	It was an awesome time.

[00:01:19:21]	We did a lot of stuff with Judaism, 

[00:01:23:04]	but then also we did a lot of sight seeing.

[00:01:25:20]	Had a tour guide who was great,

[00:01:27:23]	and actually kind of motivated me  to do environmental engineering. 

[00:01:31:16]	Anyways.

[00:01:33:00]	So, about Spanish.

[00:01:34:23]	I was one of the few people on the trip 

[00:01:36:20]	who actually had a good understanding  of Spanish

[00:01:39:06]	since I had been taking it for four years.

[00:01:41:04]	I still was no where near fluent,

[00:01:42:13]	but I still could communicate  and get around with it.

[00:01:44:25]	And it was one of the first places,

[00:01:46:10]	like I said before 

[00:01:47:09]	when I could actually use it for practicality 

[00:01:49:24]	rather than just doing exercises.

[00:01:51:02]	So, in Costa Rica, the air is really humid.

[00:01:54:14]	And so, everyone's electronic devices

[00:01:56:14]	would like start freaking out  because of humidity.

[00:01:58:07]	And, one of the things that they did to fix that

[00:02:02:04]	was put it in a bag of rice.

[00:02:03:24]	 So, like, this girl's camera was broken,

[00:02:05:23]	so she wanted some dry rice  to put her camera in, 

[00:02:08:01]	so it would hopefully be fixed.

[00:02:09:08]	So, we were at this restaurant this one time,

[00:02:12:24]	and she's trying to talk to the waiter.

[00:02:15:28]	And she's like, "Can I have rice? Dry rice please? Can I have dry rice?"

[00:02:19:08]	And the waiter is looking at her like, que? Que? Que? What?	

[00:02:22:28]	And then she's like Matt come here.

[00:02:26:06]	I'm like ok.

[00:02:26:29]	And she's like ask him for dry rice.

[00:02:28:19]	 I'm like alright. 

[00:02:30:13]	And I was like,

[00:02:31:15]	Puedo tener arroz para no esta cocinado?

[00:02:34:05]	And then he's like oh yeah,

[00:02:36:09]	Claro que si.

[00:02:37:03]	And then he goes back in the kitchen,

[00:02:38:25]	and gets the rice for the girl.

[00:02:42:13]	And then two days later her camera was fixed.

[00:02:44:07]	But it was the first time when  I actually used Spanish at a time 

[00:02:49:03]	when it had a necessity to communicate.

[00:02:51:13]	So, I felt literate 

[00:02:53:22]	cause it was a skill that not many other people really had who I was with

[00:02:58:13]	and, like I said before  I wasn't just doing it for fun

[00:03:03:02]	or for a grade on a test,

[00:03:04:14]	but I was doing it to actually.

[00:03:06:29]	I was using it for a practical purpose,

[00:03:08:21]	which is really why  I learned Spanish in the first place.

[00:03:11:22]	I don't just learn Spanish to take tests.

[00:03:13:14]	I learn it to use,  which was the first time I did that.

[00:03:17:14]	Interviewer: Is there anything you'd like to add?

[00:03:20:11]	Matthew: Nope.

[00:03:22:18]	Interviewer: Alright, thank you.