Termite TV - Life Stories

Hello, my name is Chiem K.. I originally from, came from Vietnam, and I have lived in America since 1960. In 1960 after I finished high school, I went straight to America, Utah. I attended college there for four years, and in 1964 after I graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, I moved to, I got a job in _____ teaching Vietnamese students and American troops. At that time Johnson was sending 25, 25th division to Vietnam to fight the American war. Anyway, so, I’d like to tell you a little bit about my life from then on. When I was in Hawaii, in Honolulu, I met my husband right away and we fell in love. When I first met him, I was on the way home to Vietnam, and then I know when I first met him he’s the one I wanted to marry. And then we were married three months after we met, and my husband at that time was a graduate student at the Manoa campus, and we lived there for three years, 1964 to ‘68, four years, I’m sorry. At that time, ’68, he got his PhD and he got a job at Penn in Philadelphia. So we moved there, so our live was very stable, I mean, nothing... I mean, well, nothing unusual happened. Our two sons were born, and we lived there for eight years. In 1972 and ’73, we moved to Seoul, Korea for one year where my husband taught at _____University, political science, and we lived there because.... he got actually at Fulbright a scholarship to teach there, and on the way back my husband got a chance to stop in Vietnam and met with my family and the two children, and then we went back to Philadelphia. In 1978, no six, we moved to the big island. Hawaii is a special place for me because that’s where I met my husband and our first son was born in Honolulu, and then in 1976 we moved to the big island, and we lived here until, I live here until now 19... 2000, but in 1992, my husband became ill with cancer and three months later he passed away. My life revolved around my husband and my children. His death was very devastating to my, and I survived. First three years was very difficult for me to live without him, but right now he’s been gone for seven and a half years. I felt I could move on with my life, but sometimes it’s very difficult, but I have my two children for emotional support, and I became a grandmother second time, and right now I still live in Hawaii, in big island, but I hope someday to sell my house and move to be with my children, close to them. For now, my time is divided between visiting them and traveling, because I found traveling is very exciting. So that’s the story of my life, and I hope you couldn’t understand me, because after forty years living in Hawaii, in America, I still have my terrible Vietnamese accent. I hope you understand me. Aloha.