Neista

Interviewed by Faith T

The young women that I interviewed for my junior beader bead was my waitress at The Pizza Pie in the town of Talkeetna. I noticed she had an accent when she waited on my table at the restaurant and I found her to be quite interesting. I wanted to learn more about her and where she was from, and also why she was in Alaska and not in her home country. What I found out about the young woman was that her name is Neista and that she came to Alaska from Bulgaria. This is her second year in Alaska at The Pizza Pie for the summer. When I asked Neista what brought her to Alaska she said “In Bulgaria there are a lot of agencies which offer a job for summer and I came here for just two months.” She plans on coming back to Alaska for the summers to come for her waitress job at The Pizza Pie in Talkeetna, Alaska. Her home country of Bulgaria is “Five times warmer than Alaska.” Neista’s favorite thing about Alaska is Alaska’s weather and how the weather is so different all over the state. She likes how Alaska’s weather can change quickly and can change “twice in an hour” unlike Bulgaria’s hot and dry weather. Out of the fifty states Neista has traveled to Los Angeles and Alaska.