April 25th

Monday, April 25th

Today I got a lot done on my project! I started off the day with an interview with Ati from Seprojoven. I had prepared my questions both in English and in Spanish for this interview, but upon speaking with Ati she insisted we spoke in English so she could practice speaking her 3rd language. Her English was a little broken, so there are some long pauses that I will need to edit out, but other than that, it was a great interview. Ati is very young, and her opinions and values are very strong. She explained to me that Seprojoven aims to educate and empower girls and women through soccer, and they want to teach girls to be confident with their gender and with their sexuality.

They mostly work with girls who live in very rural parts of Costa Rica and who have fairly unstable family lives. They want the soccer club to be a place of safety for the girls, where they can act and speak their minds. The soccer drills that they do center around certain values and characteristics such as teamwork, empowerment, and sportsmanship. Ati explained how girls in Costa Rica very very rarely have any access to recreational sports like soccer, and it all boils down to the sexism in the country. She told me about how since Costa Rica is a very patriarchal society, women are seen as the weaker sex who must stay at home and work in the kitchen. She believes that before the problem of gender inequality in soccer can be solved, the country as a whole needs to find a solution to the looming sexism.

After this interview, I worked on writing the introduction for Ati. After I wrote it, I recorded it like I did with the other introductions. Next, I wanted to start putting the entire interview together. I wasn't sure how this worked in audacity, so I watched a number of tutorial videos on Youtube. Once I figured it out, I combined all of the clips. Now I have one cohesive podcast with 3 different interviews in it, and I can't wait to add the others!