very mixed up meal here. >> yeah. >> did you speak english when you moved here? >> no. i couldn't even say hi. i learned it within a year because i had to. but by fifth grade, this one teacher made pea peel li teacher made me feel like i was the smartest girl in the world. >> you came over in '78 did you say? >> late '77. i was 10 years old. we literally left on, i wouldn't call it a boat. it was a raft. there was a hole in the boat. we sat in soaking water. think let us come in as refugees, and we lived in government projects. me, my sister and i were placed in the same, we were one of the first wave of boat people. >> how was it to take a tremendous risk? >> our parenting felt we ed
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