When Jennifer announced in class that it was time to begin thinking about project ideas for our audio documentaries I knew immediately what I wanted to do. I've been working with a woman who's in her 80s on and off for the past five years to write her life story. I first heard her many stories about her life as a government accountant working overseas in such places as Japan and Vietnam when she was a client of a therapy studio I worked at in the early 1990s. There's one story she told me back then that we have not revisited since starting the documentary process.
It's one of the stories from the beginnings of her career when she was in Japan. She had to attend a dinner with government and Japanese officials. Let's just call this story, "the monkey that came to dinner" because it has a surprise ending.
I've already contacted her and explained the assignment and what story I want her to tell. She's excited to participate and retell the monkey story.
I've been trying to recruit one classmate to be my partner and she seems very interested. I'm not sure if this would be a good project for three people but I'm open to it.
Also, I have on loan a Zoom digital field voice recorder that makes high quality recordings even for MP3s. I'm set to do the interview on Saturday.
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