Interview with Sazan Shita
INTERVIEW WITH SAZAN SHITA Pristina | Date: January 10 and February 23, 2015 Duration: 152 minutes 1. Sazan Shita (Speaker) 2. Kaltrina Krasniqi (Interviewer) 3. Erëmirë Krasniqi (Interviewer) 4. Besarta Breznica (Camera) 5. Donjetë Berisha (Camera) Symbols in transcription, nonverbal communication: () - emotional communication { } - the interlocutor explains some gestures. Other rules of transcription: [] - addition to the text to help understand Footnotes are add-ons that provide information about places, names or expressions. Part One Kaltrina Krasniqi: Mrs. Sazan, can you tell us what kind of childhood you had, what kind of a child were you? Sazan Shita: I had a very good childhood, I was a quiet kid, I wasn’t… I attended school in ex-Yugoslavia in Serbian. We only spoke Albanian in our house… Kaltrina Krasniqi: Where did you live? Sazan Shita: In Mitrovica. We’re originally from Gjakova, but I was born in Mitrovica. It was hard, but I learned the language. In the third grade, elementary school, we had a teach… Not a teacher, she was an imam, Imam Mejrem, she taught us religion. She spoke only in Turkish, now Turkish, Serbian, it was hard. But when she started to make us memorize poems in Arabic, I couldn’t memorize them, I don’t know why. Maybe because I didn’t understand them. There was this case… She asked me to recite a poem and I didn’t know, she said, “Come here,” I did, she said, “Curl your fingers”. I did {curls her fingers}, she always came with a stick, and with a hijab, she would only show her face.
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