Milei: Hi. Thanks for sitting down for an interview with me. Tell me about your life on the Lower East Side.

Sarah: You’re welcome. This should be fun. First of all, as you know, my name is Sarah Marx. I am 14 years old and I am from Finland. I have a twin sister named Nikki Marx. I also have two older brothers named Jack and Maks. I have an older sister named Zoe and a younger sister named Esmay. I also have a younger brother named Bruce.

Milei: How is your relationship with your siblings?

Sarah: I get along with my twin and the rest of my sisters really well just not my brothers sometimes.

Milei: Do you have any parents who live with you or do your older sibling take care of you?

Sarah: I have a mom and a grandmother who lives with us but I don’t have a father. Our mom is named Lilly and our grandmothers name is Jane.

Milei: What is your personality like and what do you like?

Sarah: I am brave and I love animals. I also love adventure, my mom sends me outside sometimes to do some chores and thats like an adventure.

Milei: Where do you live, and how did you find a place to live when you came to the Lower East Side?

Sarah: I live in a tenement and our tenement is pretty small. I live on the third floor. When we first moved to America we were looking for a place to stay. Then me and my family remembered that we had a friend who lives here, her name was Talia and she lived in a tenement. She told us that there was a empty floor that nobody lived in. Me and my family moved in to that floor and we moved on the fourth floor.

Milei: After you settled in the tenement what kind of job did you find and get and when you finally settled in the Lower East Side did you ever miss your old home?

Sarah: Me and my sister Nikki found a job at a sweatshop. My job in the sweatshop was a clipper so was my sister Nikki. I sometimes missed finland but the reason why we came to America was because we needed jobs and we did not have a lot of money to buy food.

Milei: What were the conditions like at the sweatshop?

Sarah: In the sweatshop building there was a lot of people working. Later on the day like at lunch time we still had to work till night. When the sweatshop closed me and my sister went back home. When we went in to the tenement my mom looked worried, she said, “Where have you been it is almost bed time”. I said “We were working”, and my sister said “The forelady said we had to stay late at the sweatshop and work”.  I said “The sweatshop was horrible  and there was bad conditions.” My sister said “Everybody kept on getting hurt from the machines and the forelady always locked the doors”.

Milei: did you ever want to do something else and not work at a sweatshop?

Sarah: I wish I could go to school, sometimes I saw other kids getting ready and going to school with their friends. One time I asked my mom if I can go to school, she said no because we had to get more money and “thats” the reason why we came to america. My older brothers go to school which I think is no fair.The rest of my sisters think it’s no fair too but I can understand why they don’t work at a sweatshop. They don’t work at a sweatshop because the bosses of the sweatshop look for little girls that have nimble fingers which means small fingers. My older brothers don’t have nimble fingers they have big fingers.

Milei: What was it like at your job?

Sarah: Well I am a clipper and my sister is a clipper. My other siblings work somewhere else where I don’t know, but anyway I am a clipper who works in a clothes factory. During work me and my sister speak Finnish sometimes cause it’s the language we know best then english. At the factory we have a forelady she is really mean and strict. She only lets us have a 2 min break and we have to work till night time like at 7:00. After work is over we get home late and then our mom gets worried.

Milei: Were there any special events that happen in your life?

Sarah: Well one day we smelled smoke and it was coming from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Then After the fire was over some people were still talking about it but anyway it was over. Also after we have settled in the lower east side a lot of things have changed because of the fire. Like in the sweatshops our forelady does not lock the doors anymore so we have better conditions here. The reason why we now have better conditions because of the fire is because the forelady saw how the conditions were in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Milei: Thank you for your time and telling us about your life.

Sarah: your welcome I am glad you enjoyed my story bye.