Tag: Hmong American
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My Father’s Story
I have a passion for learning. If I can keep going to school and not worry about student loans, I will keep attending school. As weird as it sounds school is fun for me. However, I didn’t always have a passion for learning. I hated school. I hated it so much that I never did […]
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My Parents and their Sacrifices
Everyone that came to America had the American Dream; however, the American Dream didn’t come that easily. There were many sacrifices that our parents had to make. And yet, the American Dream seem to be even further away just like how we’re always walking towards the sun but can never reach it. Many Hmong families […]
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Chronicles of Reach for The Stars
Part 1: School, Hate It or Love It Born in California and raised in Hickory, North Carolina there have always been two worlds that I know of. One, being raised as a Hmong daughter inside my house and two, being taught and adapting into the American culture at school. My world is always a collision of […]
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Almost Love???
I remember one day, I was sitting in my dorm with my roommate and some friends. They were talking about boys, and yes of course one of them have to said to me, “You know what Mai, you never talk about boy.” I laughed and answer, “Yeah I know, and FYI I’m not a lesbian […]
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