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| ahh... i didn't know my heritage in the United States went
back so far. I've always wondered why it's my relatives who are
always in the United States. Most Chinese people I know still
have most or all of their relatives in China. Well, I found
out that my mom actually grew up in Toysan (Taishan). It turns
out that the Chinese who worked on the railroads in the United States
in the 1800s are mostly from there, and so that's why my grandparents
had relatives here in the United States for so long. Most people
in Chinatown in Boston speak toysanese, and same in San Francisco.
My mom's cousins are coming over to the US today; she hasn't seen them for 26 years!
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| Wow... summer session is so diverse, probably more so than during the school year.
Just at lunch I met someone from Korea who knew someone I know from PA since their childhood. In my English class alone, there are two people from Tokyo, one person from Germany, one from Paris, one from Venezuela, and one from Spain (who has an English accent). In the US, one person's from Florida, two from Boston, and one from Malden... pretty diverse. So that makes me the only day student in my class.
If you walk outside for just a few minutes, you'll hear at least three languages within a few minutes. Spanish is usually one of them, and then there's Cantonese and Mandarin and Japanese and Korean.
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| Back on PA campus again... for an English class!!! bah
This is all so hopefully, I won't get crushed by next year's supposedly much harder English and History classes.
If there's one thing I miss about summer, it's the summer itself. This year, since the music program won't be running, it's going to be literally 2 hours of English class every day from now until August 3rd. :(
bah
Last summer was so much fun, can't wait to do something like that again. Everytime I walk around campus this time of year, I always remember some familiar faces with me walking from Graves to Commons and back again, and hear familiar tunes.
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