Another April 30th passes
Apr. 30th, 2006 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greybetaWhat I wrote last year on April 30th.
I know how lucky I am to be in America. My senior project, which was a retelling of my parents' story coming from Vietnam to America, really helped me see why my parents pushed me so hard when I was growing up. And, you know, I realize that sometimes I don't appreciate my parents enough. They don't take things for granted like I do. They had to forge their own second and third and fourth chances.
But a part of them dies everytime I speak English with them. If only they didn't have to work so much to make ends meet when I was younger, they "could have raised me better." I know the more I study about "my" culture, it's not really mine at all. I left it behind on that April 30th thirty-one years ago.
I know how lucky I am to be in America. My senior project, which was a retelling of my parents' story coming from Vietnam to America, really helped me see why my parents pushed me so hard when I was growing up. And, you know, I realize that sometimes I don't appreciate my parents enough. They don't take things for granted like I do. They had to forge their own second and third and fourth chances.
But a part of them dies everytime I speak English with them. If only they didn't have to work so much to make ends meet when I was younger, they "could have raised me better." I know the more I study about "my" culture, it's not really mine at all. I left it behind on that April 30th thirty-one years ago.
