WEBVTT 00:00:00.430 --> 00:00:03.490 [Music] 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:10.349 My mom came here when she was seven years old to New York. 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:14.080 My grandfather, my maternal grandfather 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:15.319 worked for the embassy. 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.680 So he was posted in New York, So they all came to New York 00:00:18.740 --> 00:00:20.250 and she's been here ever since. 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:23.700 So 40 something years, I think. 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:27.670 And my dad, he came here for college, 00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:29.950 an engineer in San Jose. 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:33.990 So he came, he studied and he just decided to live here. 00:00:34.339 --> 00:00:36.370 And that's my story. 00:00:37.830 --> 00:00:40.880 It starts off with my dad moving here for his job 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:43.320 back in 2003 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:47.660 and that just left me and my mom back in the Philippines 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:51.500 um for about two years before we moved 00:00:51.829 --> 00:00:55.660 to join suit with him and just join I mean just like live 00:00:56.160 --> 00:00:58.640 with him and my grandpa was already here prior, 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.880 but I don't really know what year he moved. 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:02.540 And yeah, 00:01:02.540 --> 00:01:05.750 We just been here since 2005. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.711 Back in Philippines we were taught English as a second language, right? 00:01:09.711 --> 00:01:11.170 And I thought that 00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:12.610 coming here to the US 00:01:12.610 --> 00:01:14.680 I wouldn't really have a problem with that. 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.834 However, it was really hard because like 00:01:16.834 --> 00:01:19.040 all everybody around me, like literally, 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.060 everybody spoke fluent English and I'm 00:01:22.470 --> 00:01:24.320 still just like I know some words that 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:26.660 they're saying but it's really like 00:01:27.570 --> 00:01:30.159 more complex just trying to like 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.360 decipher what they're saying and all that 00:01:32.540 --> 00:01:35.700 and it's um, it was hard going through that process, 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:37.010 but eventually I 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.439 I like learn to get along with it to 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.050 like conform myself to the society. 00:01:44.350 --> 00:01:47.580 So my family comes from Mexico both my mom and my dad. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.399 And they came over in the 90s and 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:51.900 they met each other like 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:55.519 uh four years after they came over, and 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.799 they met each other at work, and then 00:01:59.279 --> 00:02:02.539 they got together, and they had me and yeah. 00:02:03.189 --> 00:02:05.076 Both of my parents were born in Egypt 00:02:05.076 --> 00:02:09.500 and lived there most of their lives all the way until college. 00:02:09.530 --> 00:02:10.844 They got married in Egypt 00:02:10.850 --> 00:02:14.260 and then my father decided that he wanted to come to America because 00:02:14.420 --> 00:02:17.170 it was the land of opportunity and dreaming and all that. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.520 My mother, they were both obviously like 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.760 very torn to leave their family but they, 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.140 left everything to come here so that me and my 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.350 siblings could have a better life. 00:02:27.430 --> 00:02:29.680 My parents immigrated from 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.959 Vietnam to here during the Vietnam war. 00:02:32.959 --> 00:02:36.480 So my dad, he came originally from China 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:39.760 in Guangdong near Hong Kong and 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.319 during the Vietnam war, he escaped from 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:46.720 China through Vietnam and all the way 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:48.640 through Malaysia as a vote person. 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:51.680 So he went through a lot with his family 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.390 and his four older sisters and his two parents. 00:02:55.519 --> 00:02:57.519 My dad and the rest of his sisters 00:02:57.519 --> 00:02:59.840 decided they wanted to go to America 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.939 and really let their kids live the American dream 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:08.069 and he was very adamant about wanting to stay in America 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:11.319 seeing it as this wonderful country full of opportunities. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.865 So he went here when he was 21 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.820 and he had to lie about his age to be able to go to an American high school. 00:03:21.079 --> 00:03:23.860 He went to San Jose high school which is very close by 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.529 and he also graduated from San Jose state 00:03:27.090 --> 00:03:29.860 and he really took his education seriously, 00:03:29.860 --> 00:03:32.492 because he really wanted to provide for his family. 00:03:32.799 --> 00:03:36.109 And after everything was great he had a good job. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.260 He went back to Vietnam and that's where he met my mom. 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:43.008 And my mom immigrated here left everything she knew 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:49.580 back in Vietnam and here we are with three kids and a happy family.