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Bridgid Ryan
Translator/Chaperone, Philadelphia
Shot at Columbus Circle
What are you doing today?
I’m taking twenty Japanese kids to Soho. I’m a translator for them while they study at Fordham and at Harvard.
It’s basically like Camp America, and I’m in charge.
How did you learn Japanese?
I was lucky enough to go
to a school that taught
Spanish from kindergarten on. I like to talk so much that in college I just decided I’d learn another language, and I lived in Tokyo for four months. It’s very useful knowing Japanese. I don’t know where I’m going
with this, but it makes me
realize what makes me me.
Where are you from?
Philadelphia. I just graduated from Penn State, and I’m sort of trying to get a job in New York. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Craigslist, and I’m reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
A good friend has offered to take me all around the villages or boroughs or whatever you call them in New York because I have this dream of finding
an apartment with the sun coming in where
I can grow plants.
And then I’ll get my
library card and go to
the grocery store.
How do you describe your style?
My grandmother told me once that I’m splashy.
I don’t know how to take that. Living in Japan taught me a lot about mixing and matching and layering. I do like to act out in my dressing, you know, the pink hair and stuff.
So I guess, to answer your question with
one grandma-esque
word, I’m splashy.

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