Debra Introduces Herself

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Where did the speaker grow up?
Bristol
Philadelphia
Princeton
New York
What does the speaker do?
She works for a publishing company.
She works for a university.
She goes to graduate school.
She helps her parents.
What does the speaker want to do after about a year or so?
She wants to go to Bristol.
She wants to get a new job.
She wants to live with her parents.
She wants to go to graduate school.
What is the speaker's main purpose?
To describe her home
To discuss her daily life
To introduce herself
To tell about her family
Hi. My name is Debra Liese.
I am from Bristol Pennsylvania originally. And right now, I'm living in Princeton, New Jersey.
I am twenty-three years old.
I come from a small family.
I have one sister.
I lived at home with my sister and both of my parents until recently.

Right now I am working at a publishing company.
I plan to work there for, the rest of the year at least, or at least until I can pay my bills.
And, once I am finished doing that, I hope to go to onto a graduate school.
And I am hoping it won't take me more than about a year to get to that point.