State.
What's your name?
Raymond Hyde Borel the third.
And how old are you?
Seven.
And do you know when you were born?
September the 20th.
December.
December the 20th.
Right.
And you were born in Presbyterian Hospital.
And you where do you live now?
Gaston County.
Gaston.
In Belmont.
In Belmont.
Right.
Do you have any, do you have any sisters or brothers?
I have two sisters.
And how old are they?
My big sister is ten and my little sister is four.
Four, right.
Now you're in, in what grade?
First.
First Grade.
And what school do you go to?
Christian Academy.
Right.
And do you read a lot?
Do you read yet?
Are you reading things?
Yes.
What kind of stories do you read?
I read.
I read my books from K-five and I read my books from first grade.
What kind of stories?
Oh no.
You don't know.
Like Dr. Seuss.
Do you read Dr. Seuss?
Uh-hum.
No.
How about does um, your Dad read any stories to you?
He, he used to.
When was that?
When we were in the yellow house.
In the yellow house?
Um-huh.
Um-huh.
Do you remember what kind of stories they were?
There was a big book that has a lot of stories in it.
Um huh.
Now you watch a lot of television don't you?
Uh-huh!
Yeah, what's your favorite television shows?
Batman.
The cartoon.
Uh-huh.
Tell me about Batman.
What does Batman look like?
He has horns on his head on his mask and he has a cape and he wears a black suit and a orange belt.
Is he your favorite superhero?
Um-huh.
Do you ever watch Spider Man?
No, no.
No.
What other kinds of cartoons do you watch?
Batman Beyond and
I don't know.
Do you watch um, what is that new thing that everyone that all the kids are watching?
Pokemon?
Do you watch that?
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
What kind of, do you ever tell stories to your little sister?
No.
No.
What kind of things do you learn in school?
Reading, spelling, doing phonics.
Phonics?
Uh-huh.
And counting tens and hundreds to 200.
Really?
Uh-huh.
What, what's phonics?
What do you do for that?
I think we talk.
The tea, we read, we do numbers real fast.
You do numbers real fast?
Like one, two, three, four.
OK.
How about um, what you do for recess?
Do you have a playtime at school?
Yes.
What do you do then?
We play outside on the equipment.
And then when it's story day we bring in all kind of toys.
Really?
What's your favorite toy?
My football.
Do you play football a lot?
Uh-huh.
With who?
My daddy or my friends at school.
How about on your, do you have a playground at school?
Uh-huh.
What kind of playground equipment do you have?
Like slides, monkey bars.
On the monkey bars I used to swing up and get on top of it.
Really?
Uh-huh.
You used to?
Uh-huh, and I still do.
You still do.
Yeah, have you ever gotten hurt on the playground before?
Mmm.
Nothing I can remember that I got hurt.
Mmm.
How about do you have a bike?
Yes.
What how often.
Do you like riding your bike a lot?
Uh-huh.
Up and down the street?
Uh-huh.
Tell me about your bike.
What color is it?
It's red, silver and I got another bike that's all silver.
That's all silver.
Uh-huh.
Do you ever, do you have any stories that, do you remember any stories that Daddy used to tell you or that daddy tells you?
Sometimes I, I remember one story he told me in the yellow house.
What was that?
He told me that there was a ghost in it.
He did?
Did you ever see the ghost?
Ugh-ugh.
No.
Did he ever tell you any other stories?
A book he said he read.
The little pigs, The Three Little Pigs.
The Three Little Pigs.
Uh-huh.
Does Daddy do voices when he does Three Little Pigs?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How about I used to read you stories a lot.
Do you remember that?
Uh-huh.
Do you remember what kind of stories they were?
Mmm, uh-huh.
I think, I think your favorite was do you remember Maurice Sendak and we would read the about Pierre and the lion.
Yeah that's one that I like.
Do you remember little Pierre?
What did Pierre always say?
Do you remember?
Ugh-Ugh.
You don't?
Pierre.
Pierre he would always say, "I don't care."
Pierre, Pierre, "I don't care."
Uh-huh.
And the lion ate him.
Yeah he did, didn't he?
And they had to take him to a hospital right.
Yeah and the lion gave him a ride back home.
Um-huh.
That's right.
Um, Christmas is coming up pretty soon huh?
I heard that you were writing a Christmas list.
Uh-huh.
What kind of things are on your list?
I don't know.
You wrote this out all by yourself.
Look at this.
What?
This is in cursive.
I know.
Did you write this?
Um-huh.
That's really impressive.
I don't know if I can really read any of this though.
Space, space?
What is this?
Bazooka.
What is that?
What's a space bazooka?
It's this toy bazooka?
Is it like a gun?
Yeah, but it's not real.
It's not real.
Does it shoot things?
No.
It just goes boom, boom.
Oh, that sounds like fun.
What else is on this list here?
A snowboard --.
Um huh.
For North Carolina?
They say we're going up in the mountains to find some snow.
Really?
Uh-huh.
When are you going to that?
I think at Christmas and I'm getting a knife set.
A knife set?
Uh-huh.
That sounds dangerous.
But I'm never going to take the knives out.
Oh, OK.
That sounds like a good idea.
There's a survival kit that I'm getting.
Really.
Uh huh.
And.
I got, get me a microscope that goes to the TV and it hooks up to the TV so you can put a bug under there and you can see it and big.
Um-huh.
You can put a ladybug and see a ladybug about that big on the television.
Wow.
That sounds like fun.
Are you going to get gifts for anyone this year?
Are you going to buy any gifts for people or make anything?
Maybe.
Maybe.
But I do got a 100 dollars.
You do!
Are you sure you want to be telling people that?
No.
How about does Mommy ever tell you any stories?
I think so.
What kind of stories does she tell you?
Red Riding Hood I think.
Little Red Riding Hood.
How does that story go?
The big bad wolf ate the grandma then she, then the big bad wolf tried to, eat red riding hood.
Really.
Did the wolf ever eat her?
Nope.
No.
Any other stories that you can remember?
Uh-um.
No.
Daddy's, daddy's a builder right?
Uh-huh.
A carpenter.
A carpenter.
Have you ever helped your dad?
Uh-huh.
That's how I got them hundred dollars.
Oh really, what kind of jobs do you do for your, your dad?
I work with him like carry boards and do, and hammer boards--.
Do you do gopher work?
Does he ever let you hammer things in?
Um-huh.
Yeah.
Does he ever let you drive the car?
He let me back down the car once.
Really?
Down the driveway?
Um-huh.
Did you hit anything?
The crate.
Hmm?
The big crate.
The big?
Crate.
Crate.
Uh-huh.
I didn't hit nothing.
Wow.
That's good.
What other kind of things do you do for your dad?
Help him work and I help, help him clean up the big crate inside it.
Is that the big van?
Yeah, the one out there.
Oh, OK.
Well thank you so much for letting me interview you.
You did a really good job.
Thank you!
