Biographic Information: English, Female, 21yrs (6)
Themes: Biographical information (participant’s age, where participant is from, where participant lives currently), Participant’s friends, relationships, and family, Participant’s likes and interests (sports, music (artists), vacations, etc.), Participant’s education, Participant’s future plans, Ruidoso
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Interviewer: Hi, Xxxxx, um how, can you tell me how old you are please?
Participant: Um, twenty-one
I: And where are you from?
P: Hondo, New Mexico
I: And how far is that from Las Cruces?
P: Two hours
I: Okay, um could you tell me about your friends?
P: Yeah. Um they’re pretty cool. Um I don’t know, like?
I: Like what (inaudible)
P: Oh, like there’s a wide variety of them, I guess like. I guess my best friend is from my hometown, so I’ve known her forever. Um-
I: What’s her name?
P: Kate Cooper. Most of the people I hang out with I’ve known like from high school, showing and stuff.
I: Did you show animals?
P: Yes, since I was four.
I: (inaudible)
P: Um, a pig, I think yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: I don’t know I don’t really show pigs. (laughs)
I: You just said you showed pigs (laughs).
P: Well, I showed a pig once. So, I guess you just wash them and then walk ‘em in, but I show cattle I don’t show pigs.
I: (inaudible)
P: Okay, so you like, want to grow a lot of hair and you want them fat, and then, yeah, you, like, clip them, make them look good like a nice silhouette. And then you take them in the show ring and you show.
I: (inaudible)
P: Um, well, there’s like rations of feed that are specific for show animals and different supplements you add in to get a certain outcome.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. Multiple times.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yes.
I: (inaudible)
P: Um, growing up, we played sports together. So, we started like in Little League softball. And then um we had like little travel basketball teams since like first grade. And so, yeah, and uh, we have like older siblings that went to school together.
I: Mmm. So you were always together?
P: Yeah. Yeah, we did. We had traveled to games and stuff together like for our siblings.
I: What was your favorite memory as a kid and why?
P: Like as a kid kid? Like a little kid. Mmm. Hmm. Wasn’t prepared for this question. (12.0) One of my favorites it’s probably just like Eastern- Easter at my aunt’s house. When like all the cousins would come together. And yeah, we go look for eggs and we just play the Wii and stuff. Hang out.
I: (inaudible)
P: Um, yeah. Kind of. So like where my house was. I lived here and then my aunt lived here and my other aunt lived here. So then we’d all see each other like, yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: No. My dad’s family is from Santa Rosa.
I/P: (inaudible) (laughs)
P: My mom, she has one sibling and she had two, but one of them died. When he was in college.
I: (inaudible)
P: No, she was the youngest (laughs). My mom’s the youngest, my dad is the youngest. I’m the youngest. I’m the youngest cousin. Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: I’m the baby baby.
I: (inaudible)
P: Like intermediate cousins?
I: Like who you consider your cousin
P: Um. One, two, three, four. Like from my uncle. But like there’s a bunch of cousins like my mom’s cousins [5:00] that are passed down my cousins, but we’re like, oh, yeah, that’s my cousins, but not like my cousins cousins. Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: Oh shoot. Let me start on one side of the family. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine
I: Nine cousins, first cousins?
P: Yeah. Oh! Ten, elven. Eleven cousins
I: How many siblings does your dad have?
P: Yeah, my dad has three siblings. Almost four actually. Because my dad is a twin, but his twin died when he was a baby.
I: That’s very sad too.
P: Yeah.
I: Um, wait so how many siblings do you have?
P: Um two. Two boys
I: You’re the only girl?
P: Yeah, two older brothers.
I: (inaudible)
P: One lives in Hondo and one lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
I: (inaudible)
P: Uh, so my oldest brother, it- works at a AG bank and he’s a loan officer for like big ranches and stuff. And then my other brother is married, has a baby and another baby on the way. And he’s a athletic trainer for the college.
I: (inaudible)
P: Highlands. Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: Right now, he’s like the head trainer. So I don’t actually know he does. Uh. He does football and volleyball right now.
I: (inaudible)
P: Um she’s like the head nurse. Or something.
I: At the hospital?
P: She like-. No, she’s like the head nurse of like- so when there’s like little clinics, she is in charge of, like all those little clinics in there. So like she travels to those clinics. Makes sure they’re set up. Yeah, I don’t know she makes a lot of money. (laughs)
I: (inaudible)
P: Um so they’re both teachers. My dad retired and now runs the Rainmaker Golf course in Ruidoso, and my mom still teaching. She teaches Ag and she’s a coach. They’re both coaches.
I: (inaudible)
P: My dad coached everything. Track, volleyball, softball, baseball, football, basketball. And my mom coached volleyball, basketball, track.
I: (inaudible)
P: Well, when he coached volleyball and softball, he coached girls.
I: That was a dumb question (laughs).
P: (laughs)
I: (inaudible)
P: Girls. UM, I mean um she coached like my brothers teams when he was little but she likes to coach girls.
I: (inaudible)
P: Science and P.E.
I: (inaudible)
P: Very small. My graduating class was. Ten, I think.
I: That is small.
P: Yeah. It is Hondo is kind of like one of those weird towns. It’s kind of like. A bunch of little towns that make up one. Just like. Tinnie, Picacho, Hondo, San Patricio, Glencoe. But they’re. Like thirty miles.
I: Oh dang.
P: Yeah. No, but. It’s just like you just say, Hondo, like I’m from Hondo. I’m actually I I’m actually from Hondo though. ‘Cause like where you would consider Hondo, is like where my house is.
I: (inaudible)
P: Allsups. (laughs)
I: That’s all?
P: Literally we have the school and then we Allsups.
I: (inaudible)
P: Allsups (laughs). No, I’m just kidding. There’s a Ruidoso’s like twenty-five minutes and then Roswell is on the other side like forty minutes.
I: Is that were you go grocery shopping?
P: Yeah, but like, if you’re at home and you need something to eat go to Allsups and get like some hot dogs.
I: (inaudible)
P: It’s like one of those big Allsups with like a grocery store type thing. Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: Cruces doesn’t.
I: (inaudible)
P:Oh, and West Texas. Yeah. Hour and a half? Two hours? [10:00] Two hours.
I: Uh, tell me about (inaudible)
P: Like a family vacation or a trip I went on?
I: (inaudible)
P: We’ll do both. Okay. Um, probably when my whole family went to Vegas, Nevada for the first time. That was really cool. We went and we stayed at the Mandalay Bay and they have like this big like Lazy River and uh, wave, pool, and stuff. We went with my cousins, so it was fun.
I: (inaudible)
P: We walked the strip and like went to the M&M store ‘cause we were kids. So, yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: No. I did eventually but not on that trip. Yeah, my famiy didn’t take much vacations because obviously we had steers. So.
I: (inaudible)
P: Not like family vacations like we went on trips sometimes but. Yeah. But then my favorite trip was when I went with the college my Group ACT to Florida. Jacksonville. Last April.
I: (inaudible)
P: We went for a Farm Bureau convention thing.
I: (inaudible)
P: We sat in like sessions and got to do like little break breakout workshops and stuff.
I: (inaudible)
P: Huh?
I: (inaudible)
P: Because I went with like my best friend. And then what is one of my best friends now because of that trip I made really good friends.
I: What excursions did you guys go to?
P: Um, we went to. We got bused to Saint Augustine, which is like one of the oldest towns in America. It was really cool. Then we went to the beach. Even though we didn’t get to swim, but we went to the beach.
I: Why didn’t you get to swim?
P: I don’t know. We went on that tour to Saint Augustine, and then our professors made us walk eight miles. No three miles. (laughs) Three miles to this lighthouse. Then we had to walk all the way up the lighthouse and take a picture. And then they’re like, “You guys want to go to the beach?” We’re. Like, “Yeah!”, but we’re all wearing jeans. So we’re on the beach and jeans. It was fun.
I: (inaudible)
P: No, for sure. Yeah, but that was really fun.
I: (inaudible)
P: Oh gosh yes. It was gross. Mmm yeah for sure.
I: (inaudible)
P: Exactly. We walked out and I thought there was going to be like a hurricane. It was like storming, but it was so hot and like the air was so thick.
I: (inaudible)
P: It was gross, and but that was like the worst it ever was. But it wasn’t the bad after. Oh and we saw dolphins. In the river.
I: In the river?
P: In the river. But then we went to like the beach? Well, not like the beach beach but kinda. I don’t know where we were, but there were dolphins and then we saw dolphins.
I: Wait what part of Florida were you in?
P: Jacksonville
I: (inaudible)
P: It’s like- (3.0) I don’t think it was far.
I: (inaudible)
P: (inaudible)
P: Where is, oh Tampa? Tampa is kinda far. Orlando was like maybe two hours.
I: What is your favorite thing to do?
P: Uh (laughs) um I just like to hang out with my friends.
I: What do you and your friends do?
P: Party, I’m just kidding. Um, we just hangout and talk. No. My favorite thing is intramurals for sure.
I: Volleyball or Football?
P: Football’s pretty fun. Yeah, football probably.
I: How are you guys doing right now?
P: Good
I: Are you sure you’re good?
P: We’re good. I mean we would have won last week if our team didn’t get kicked out but.
I: Why did your team get kicked out?
P: ‘Cause we had alcohol. (laughs)
I: Well, (inaudible) [15:00]
P: Yeah. It wasn’t me though. It was this girl called Dakota Woodbury.
I: Mhm.
P: They jumped the fence too. (5.0) They literally just sent out an e-mail. Don’t jump the fence and don’t bring alcohol that was because of us.
I: Oh actually?
P: Yeah. Or actually, did it say alcohol? And about the zippers and the shorts having pockets.
I: (inaudible)
P: Mhm.
I: (inaudible)
P: For sure, for sure, they hate us.
I: (inaudible)
P: Laughs. For sure, for sure, they hate us. We just came from the tailgate after we supported our Aggies.
I: (inaudible)
P: We just came from the tailgate after we supported our Aggies.
I: (Inaudible)
P: Yeah. It’s fun.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. I do actually.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. I was there. and almost passed out of a heat stroke yeah.
I: Are you talking to anyone?
P: Okay. (laughs). Next question (laughs)
I: Who do you listen to?
P: Miranda Lambert. (laughs)
I: Who else?
P: Who else? I can’t even pick. (4.0)n How good she is. (5.0) Miranda Lambert. Yeah. No. I’m just kidding. I like really girly music. I listen to like Miranda Lambert, Lanny Wilson, Carly Pierce, Kelsey Ballerini.
I: Do you listen to any boy country?
P: Oh yeah.
I: For real?
P: For real (7.0) Like, (inaudible). No. She’s the exception. Yeah, unless like, there’s a song that’s catchy and it pops in my head, then I (inaudible) *I said what I said, I’d rather be famous instead* (sung) (laughs) Yeah well duh. Uhhh, like Zach Bryan. (5.0) I remember everything. (6.0). Oh. Oh yeah. ‘cause (inaudible).
I: (inaudible)
P: (inaudible), I like flatland. Oh I really like (inaudible) that’s it.
I: I’ve never heard of them.
P: You need to look them up they are really good. Yeah it’s good.
I: What are they like?
P: I like, like um like Texas country. Like the country music of the guys I listen to you won’t hear on the radio.
I: They are coming up though
P: (inaudible) No
I: No
P: They will never be on the radio.
I: (laughs)
P: (laughs)
I: You have no faith in them (laughs)
P: No they won’t like that’s just the kind of music. Like that West Texas Country music. Like, I’m surprised they play Zack Bryan.
I: Really? No, Zack Bryans good.
P: Yeah but
I: But what?
P: It’s still kind of a different country.
I: Its different exactly.
P: Like Parker McCollum
I: Parker McCollum is good.
P: Koel Wetzel.
I: If you could go to any concert. What concert would you go to?
P: Uh. Miranda Lambert but I already saw her. The next concert I want to see is Laney Wilson.
I: (inaudible)
P: You should.
I: Wait what does she sing? (inaudible)
P: *I’ve got a heart like a truck. * [*like a truck*]. Sung together.
P: Yeah. Carly Pierce, I want to see that one to.
I: Oh what does she sing? Give me uh, give me uh short a short concert.
P: I’m trying to think of a song you would know. She sings that song with Chris Stapelton that’s on the radio. [20:00] I don’t- we don’t fight anymore.
I: hmm.
P: *We don’t yell, cause what the hell difference would it make? We don’t cuss,* (sung) Yeah.
I: I haven’t heard that song.
P: *And if he wanted to be that girl mm mm* (Sung) Nope? Okay.
I: No (laughs) Umm. What wait what are- you’re studying AxEd, right?
P: Yes.
I: You want to be an Ag teacher?
P: Yes.
I: Do you want to go to like a specific uh state?
P: Um here in New Mexico.
I: You wanna stay in New Mexico?
P: Or I can like live in Texas but if it was like. Probably like outside Lubbock area. I would live there like, not too far from home.
I: Are you like really really close to your family?
P: Yeah, pretty close with my mom. Not really like my brothers.
I: You don’t like your brothers? (laughs)
P: No, like, we’re not that close like we’re not.
I: How far in age?
P: Pretty far. Five and seven, I think.
I: Who do you talk to more, the younger one or no?
P: I don’t know, I don’t really talk to either of them.
I: Really?
P: Not like in a bad way but like.
I: You don’t talk to them?
P: I mean, I do, but not like. When I see them.
I: You don’t call them?
P: No, like sometimes I’ll call my brother, if I wanna see my nephew. Or something I just don’t have anything to talk to him about? I’m not like. I don’t have that relationship with my brothers where it’s like. “Hey bro, just got a new boyfriend. So wanted to let you know.”, but I’d be like I’d call him and be like, “Hey. you need call Mom she’s mad at you.”, or something like that.
I: Oh, so you call when you need to?
P: Yeah, what I need to do. Yeah.
I: Are you talking to anyone?
P: Ummm its complicated (laughs).
I: (inaudible)
P: Hi. (13.0) (inaudible) (8.0) Uh, almost every weekend. (3.0) But I go home and I’m like, not really home.
I: (inaudible)
P: No, like. I like have to go somewhere or something.
I: To run errands or what?
P: I don’t know like we’ll, we’ll, go- I don’t know I go home and we have to go get feed. So we go to Roswell or get hay so we go like- but now I go home because I am selling steers, so I have to go home when people want to go see the steers.
I: (inaudible)
P: I have two left.
I: How many did you have?
P: I had four and I was selling em but then I have to go buy three more like good ones after I sell these ones.
I: (inaudible)
P: I- no, they are for show like but I’m too old to show. So now I sell them to kids who do show and then I help them.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. Mhm.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah, mmm one kid got Grand at their county and then won a class at State Fair. And all the other ones did good and made the sale.
I: (inaudible)
P: Won a class.
I: (inaudible)
P: The heavyweight shorthorn.
I: (inaudible)
P: Breeds at state fair and weight everywhere else.
I: (inaudible)
P: Steers. Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: I mean, you want to show something that’ll win. Like a breed that win. Like you don’t want to go grab a roping steer and show it.
I: So a steer is just (inaudible)
P: Boy without his balls (laughs). (3.0) It’s not a bull anymore.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah pretty much. But you want it like a cross with like main or something. Like the show breeds.
I: (inaudible)
P: Maine, Shorthorn, limousine, canina. Like you don’t want to go get a roping, steer and show it ‘cause it’s not going to have what you want.
I: (inaudible)
P: Nothing. Like no fat, [25:00] no muscle, no nothing.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. I work with him in the summers so.
I: (inaudible)
P: Golf course.
I: (inaudible)
P: Mm Ruidoso.
I: (inaudible)
P: I did.
I: (inaudible)
P: Mm maybe this is his second year. Yes.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah, I guess. He wanted a job and that’s the job he got.
I: Does he work there or does he golf a lot to?
P: Yeah he golfs. My whole family pretty much golfs, I think.
I: Like on both sides?
P: No
I: Just your dads?
P: Well I mean like my-
I: Oh like your
P: My mom can golf my brother’s really good at golf, my other brother- brothers is not very athletic, but he tries (laughs).
I: Are you good at golf?
P: Yeah. I played growing up, obviously. ‘Cause my dad played college golf.
I: Oh, where at?
P: Highlands
I: Huh I didn’t know Highlands had a golf team.
P: They did, they don’t.
I: Oh they don’t know anymore. I see and where did your- your parents both graduate from Highlands?
P: No my mom graduated from NMSU.
I: So where did they meet?
P: Um, Santa Rosa. My mom had a cousin that was a principal there, so she got her a job there. So she moved there and that’s how she met my dad.
I: Oooo
P: And fun fact, my uncle actually liked my mom, but my mom liked my dad, so yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. Yeah. Until going into my eighth grade year.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. Daniel? Yeah. Danea? Are you related to them?
I: (inaudible)
P: Ohh I was going to say you look like them. You do (laughs). Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. They were.
I: (inaudible)
P: Nope.
I: (inaudible)
P: All the cool kids, I’m just kidding (laughs). I was cool I just didn’t- I think I ran for it like my seventh grade year.
I: (inaudible)
P: And my sixth grade year. I don’t know. I just wasn’t really.
I: (inaudible)
P: What? Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: That’s funny, you look like the type. You look like them actually. You look like the Esquibels. Like you look like Danea kind of.
I: (inaudible)
P: Elysia and Ashley, Elyse Chavez, Darren Chavez.
I: I think they are older. I remember Darren. He was in Student Council.
P: Yeah. Yeah. And his sister Elyse she was in my grade she was my best friend and Ashley Lucero.
I: I am thinking of who else I remember from there. Oh um what’s his-
P: Krista Garnard
I: Kris- I I just new of her like I knew of her- them only one that I was really really close with was Jacob because he was my age. And then whats his name? One of them goes to school here now, but he moved to La Cueva.
P: Ohh uh Lucas.
I: Yeah.
P: Lucas.
I: Yeah, yup,
P: Yeah, they’re all related.
I: Yeah no literally that’s what I remember them telling me, like literally all Santa Rosa like
P: No, for sure. That’s like Hondo too. Like the old families from Hondo, like you. Like all of our parents went to school together. So like they uh my mom was from Hondo, so we moved back. Because my mom got a job there. And my grandparents are. Still living there, so we moved to live with my grandparents and take care of them but they’re old. But there’s like some families, like, it’s really hard for them to date because they’re like siblings.
I: (inaudible)
P: Cut the tape (laugh). (inaudible) know Nicola. [30:00] Big, tall redhead. She’s in the same grade. (inaudible) Yeah. They- her sister shows for me. Yeah, she’s the one that got grand the first year.
I: (inaudible)
P: Not at all.
I: (inaudible)
P: It was like me and then my best friend Sean. They showed pigs. So we had like a really small County Fair, but me and Sean we would like us and their family would go. Um like to state fair and stuff. But that’s it. So nobody really understand what we did and like why would we go (inaudible).
I: I didn’t realize you were from Santa Rosa or you grew up there.
P: Yeah, I did.
I: (inaudible) in Hondo for like, most of your life.
P: Like when people ask me where I’m from, I say Hondo. ‘Cause I used to be like, “Well, I’m from Santa Rosa, but I went-“ Now, I’ll be like, “Where I’m from? I live in Hondo. But I’m. From Santa Rosa, it’s complicated.” I’ve lived in Honda for seven years. I say.
I: What is there to do in Hondo?
P: Nothing.
I: You can’t even go to Sonic but you can go to Allsups.
P: You could go to Ruidoso but that’s sketch.
I: Ruidoso? really?
P: Yeah, like the Ruidoso people are sketch but we would just sometimes we go like to the arena. Go ride horses till it got dark. Yeah, just hang out at people’s houses. Fun fact, my best friend Kate lived in the same town, but we weren’t really friends at school.
I: Really?
P: Like we’d be friends ‘cause we showed together. So we’d see each other but like Kate lives like thirty minutes from my house but even now, like we go home and we don’t see each other. But then, like when I graduated, and she was a senior that’s when we started becoming friends.
I: Oh so she’s younger than you?
P: Yeah. (5.0) And now we’re like best friends ‘cause we came to college together.
I: (inaudible)
P: Ohh yeah, I used to go to El Paso every weekend for AAU basketball.
I: (inaudible)
P: Tha- that’s where we would practiced.
I: (inaudible)
P: No, we would go to like Kansas, San Antonio, Waco, to play tournaments.
I: Wait so why would you go there to practice?
P: Because our coach was from El Paso. We had a bunch of girls from El Paso, Texas, Midland, Snyder.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. There’s like only like two New Mexico girls though. Me and someone else.
I: (inaudible)
P: I think, I started my sophomore year. And I think somebody was like, “You need to get an AU team.” and was like here call this person. So then we called them and they were like, “Yeah, send us film.” So we sent them film and they were like “Yeah, be on our team.”
I: Oh, nice. (inaudible)
P: Two and a half? three hours? Three hours.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: Mm mm I was on B team. Yeah. Yeah. But we had like a younger team and an older team. Well, we had like a younger team and an older team. Even my senior year I was still on B team. (laughs).
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. Yeah. We did AAU, I did it like during my volleyball season and then, ‘cause the month of June is all basketball in high school.
I: (inaudible)
P: I was baller. Just kidding. We, we were really good actually. We um we got state runner up my junior year, we should have won.
I: (inaudible) [35:00]
P: Pecos.
I: (inaudible)
P: I know. And uh, and then the next year we won it. And I was 2A player of the year twice, offensive player of the year once.
I: Did you player after?
P: Yeah I went to college to play.
I: Oh yeah
P: Yes
I: (inaudible)
P: No I went to Highlands.
I: Wait actually?
P: Actually, yeah.
I: (inaudible)
P: ‘Cause I transferred. ‘Cause it was like COVID so we didn’t have a season anyways. And then I was like ugh I’m done and then I hurt myself.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yes.
I: You’re lying
P: No I’m not. It was like miserable, though, because I was like in the dorm by myself and I couldn’t, like, talk to, like, go to other dorms ‘cause of COVID stuff. So yeah, I was like, I want to leave.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. So, like, I was in practice and I dove for a ball and I pulled my quads, like, almost tore both my quads and, like, I couldn’t walk. And I was like, yeah, that’s it.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yeah. But I can’t hear my sophomore year.
I: (inaudible)
P: Yup.
I: (inaudible)
P: I don’t know. We were the only ones on campus. It was COVID.
I: (inaudible)
P: I mean probably over here. I mean they do like if you miss you get an extension. And now, they get money.
I: (inaudible)
P: Like you get sponsorships from around town.
I: (inaudible)
P: Nope.
I: Thank you for doing this.
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