Young Adult Novel - Australian & Eastern European Female Narrator
Description
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Teen (13-17)Accents
Australian Croatian Eastern European (General)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
When I stepped out of my bedroom ready to leave, mom gasped, you can't go like that and pushed me back into the bedroom. We were going to a Zabawa, the Bosnian name for a party Zabawa were organized twice a year, once as a community meet and greet the second to celebrate Ramadan the Muslim religious month of fasting. This would be my first attendance. Why not? I demanded my hands on my hips as I twirled, I wore a little black dress. Mum bought for my 15th birthday. I'd grown in the year since and the dress molded to my body. I wore the dress a few months before when we attended a work barbecue for Dave. Mum's ex-boyfriend, mum complimented me. Then it's not suitable. Mum rifled through my wardrobe. Even though both my parents are from Bosnia, I didn't have anything to do with the community when I was six years old. Mum moved us to the inner city. Now when I was 16, we were back where we'd started in Saint Albans, even though Saint Albans was established in 18 87. At least that's what the plaque at Saint Albans train station said. You couldn't tell by walking through the bustling center. The buildings are two story plain block structures with tin roofs. The shop fronts are a mix of European who settled after the post World war two boom and Vietnamese who came in the 19 seventies, Saint Alban's only distinguishing feature was the streets formed into perfect rectangles, an absence of trees on nature strips. And the fact that every second shop is a pharmacy catering to the aging population. There were always Hugos in Saint Albans. And after the Balkan War in the early 19 nineties, the population exploded with refugees from all sides settling there. It wasn't a coincidence that mum and I moved away while everyone else moved into Saint Albans.