A little piece of me.

In 1990, I was born in beautiful sunny San Diego, California. I grew up learning the meaning of love through my parents hard work and my auntie's amazing cooking. From this, I came to realize that my way of giving back my love for them was to do well in school; for me, and for the people who pushed me so hard to do well. Education was always my top priority. Throughout elementary school I lived the life of a latch-key kid. My parents would work from morning until night, which meant that coming home from school, my sisters and I would take care of ourselves and each other until our parents came home from work right before dinner. Because of this, I spent a great portion of my life, being taken care of by my two older sisters, and my auntie and uncle who also lived with me.

By the age of 10, my family moved to another part of town that can only be described as cookie-cutter houses in the new developed suburbs of San Diego. A little confused, I was never able to fully understand why people in my schools never looked like me. In middle school, a student body that consisted of nearly 2000 student had around five Vietnamese American students. In high school, from around 3000 students, there were still only around five students. During this time, I had many conflicts with my identity and who I was. My only tie to being Vietnamese was with my family. During the last two years of high school, while working hard on my education, and holding down a part-time job, I began my journey towards finding my identity.

After getting into UC Berkeley, I was able to really begin to find who I was. Coming to Cal, I was able to start identifying myself as a strong independent womyn. But now, I'm on a new journey to understand and find my family hystory. So here I am in Viet Nam, trying re-plant myself to find my roots.

My goals for the next four months:

1. Learn Vietnamese :)

2. Education. I want to get good grades and really soak up the material!

3. Make new friends!

4. Visit Family!

5. Learn, laugh, live and have fun too!

btw, this was a very short glimpse into my life... please get to know me personally (: I don't bite!