“En mis dias”: In my days

Rosa and Lucio both grew up in Guaranda, but their parents are from further out in the region: Rosa’s family lived outside of Guaranda, while Lucio’s family comes from Chimborazo. Rosa and Lucio both grew up helping their families and farm duties: farming for them was not something that they described as taught, but something they just grew up with and naturally became part of them as they got older. Although gender roles dictated Lucio and Rosa’s roles in the home, with Rosa taking care of raising the children and househild work while Lucio was able to work as a bus driver for a few years, agriculture was where both shared responsibilities. All of Rosa and Lucio’s three children grew up in the farm in Santa Fe where Lucio grew up, since he gained the house after his parents passed away as part of his inheritance.

In the audio clip below, Doris describes some of her memories growing up in the family farm in Sanra Fe:

Transcript of audio:

Doris: Um, my first years, when I was little, I lived in Santa Fe, in the small town that is in the farm with my parents’ farm. Was a really nice place, I really, I liked it, I enjoyed a lot. Ah, the whole day we were playing in the farm, with the animals, with the, in the grass, in the plantations that my parents had, they used to plant corn, also, wheat. So I grew up in that place, and I remember being really, really happy. No concerns, no sadness, nothing. Um, I felt free, it’s like I felt free, ah we didn’t have people living around us, a few people but far away from my house, so we were free, because nobody was looking at us. We were doing whatever we want, because was our place.