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Interviewee: Sonum Nawaz
Interviewer: Stacey Bains

Track 1
Born 4 Feb1988 in Coventry. Two older sisters. Get on well. Always there for her. Fight sometimes. Fight about keeping things from parents. Talk about her problems. Help and advise her. Advantage to be youngest. Get everything you want. Not treated maturely. Live with mum and dad. Sisters live in Birmingham. Has to phone them to help with homework. Visit a lot. Sister just had baby so there every weekend. Mum/Dad not strict. Allowed to do what they think is good. Gets away with things because youngest. Closer to mum.

Track 2
Mum is honest with her. Don't like her hanging around with wrong people. Late for secondary school on first day. Called the 'late one' until two boys turned up hours later. Girl was good until came to secondary school. Now violent and abusive to teachers. Nursery school. Didn't want to leave her mum. Gave her a lollypop and she was happy. Park Gate Primary. Nice. A lot of friends. Had to leave them. Different schools. Best friend moved to America. Liked work and long playtime. Likes to go on computers together. Too cold to go outside. Played in sandpits.

Track 3
Girl pinched chip. Hit her with fork. Blood. Told off. Teacher nice to her. Favourite pupil. Likes Art, painting, sketching. Likes painting colourful things. Hated assembly. Cried on last day as didn't want to leave each other. Secondary School scary as only one going there. Made a lot more friends than thought she would. Foxford, OK. Ups and downs. Missed two weeks as on holiday. Easy work at first then got harder. Parents evening more often. Dark.

Track 4
Didn't enjoy it at first. Liked it after a while. Likes lunchtime. Go on field or out of school together. Youth club. Likes creative arts and humanities. Gets highe marks. Dislikes Algebra. Teachers vary. Worse thing is homework. Exams easy. If tries hard will pass SAT's. Will be nervous. Mum takes her to school. Chats to friends before bell. Registration, lessons, break/lunch. Goes home on bus. Bus is funny sometimes.

Track 5
People mess around. Sometimes boring. Gets changed. Watches TV (television) until dinner ready. Watches things to help her with homework. MTV, Sky One. Reads. Likes reading. In competition to read 10 books in 10 weeks. Read 9 so far. Likes Harry Potter. Teenage fiction/novels. Jacqueline Wilson. Reading 'Goblet of Fire'. Boy learning to be wizard. Popular because thick and adventurous. Likes swimming. Creative Arts after school. Goes shopping, sports centre and weekends. Sometimes stays at home. Coventry nice, quiet, small. Birmingham too big. A lot to do. Youth centre.

Track 6
Activities in summer holidays. Likes to go to park if hot. Goes to library to do work. Likes shopping. New Look, Top Shop. £50 a week pocket money. Saves it. Going to buy a laptop. Can work on long journeys. Goes on Net. Does homework. Chats and finds out things. Magazines, clothes, stationary. Likes Bliss magazine. Music depends on her mood. Likes Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Likes songs that effect her. Christmas Eid, Births, birthdays family occasions. During Eid parents cook. Children get dressed up and go out. Get presents.

Track 7
Get money. Go on day trips. When people come from abroad collect them and have family meal. Go on holiday in summer and if have too. Liked Tunisia best. Hot, nice hotel, enjoyed shopping. Would like to be music composer. Interested in music. Plays guitar, flute and keyboard. Would like other children to have a centre as well. Would like to do well at school. Will stay on if does well. Would like to go to Uni. Sister done 2 degrees and is independent. Would like to be independent. Thinks Coventry will be bigger and nicer. If people work together can make it nicer. Likes shops, parks and libraries.

Track 8
Dislikes the noise. Would like less traffic and more people to walk. Not frightened of anything. Would like to have residential trips so children can learn to be independent. Went to Pakistan for 9 months without mum. Happy but sad when mum not there. Helped her to be independent. Will try to organise things at school. Could organise trips. She wants everything to be equal. Shoulder to cry on.

Track 9
Shy. Quiet.

Coventry Lives Oral History Project, date of birth: 04/02/1988