My Story

     My name is Pichkeorasmei Thong! The meaning of my first name is the brightest light from the sun and an original diamond. My last name means the power of the dragon. I am Cambodian, Chinese, and Vietnamese. But my family don't follow Vietnamese's tradition, we only follow Cambodian's and Chinese's traditions. When I have free time in my country, I like to play with my dolls and I like to eat junk foods. While I'm reading, I like to use my own imagination to imagine things that's going on in the story. I started to know how to read English better from reading the books everyday. Now since I'm not in my country anymore, I life changed! I especially spend my free time on reading and eating ice-creams. I never choose to come to Philadelphia, but my parents choose to come here because all of my dad family are here. Sometimes I feel like I didn't take the right decision to come here, but on the other hand, I think I did took the right decision.
     My parents' opinion on living in Philadelphia is just to be near my dad's family and let my sister and I get educated. I always wish to become a rich person one day after I finished educating. And if it happen for real, I would like to visit north pole and if I have enough money, I would to go to the moon to check out the gravity out there. The most wonderful memory that I can't forget from my native country is when my sister and my aunt tried to scared me whenever the power went out. I can't never ever going to forget about this because I miss that fun memory so much, even though they scared but I still want it to happen again somehow!
     The most perfect of my life whenever I hang out with my Cambodians' friends at china town, because we all like to eat all the times. I learn a lot of things when I moved to America. I learn how to speak English better than I learn English in me country. I always wished to go back to the past, and the most recently thing that I wished I can do it over is to learn my native language better and get good grades in school. I life means happiness and full of hopes to me.

     What surprised me when I moved to America the most is, my parents always stayed with me at home when I'm in my country, but when we moved to America, they both go to work and I don't often see them at home. This is kind of a hard situation for me and my sister, because we never stay at home alone like this. When they got home every evening, we were so happy together and we eat dinner together. Pichchanboramei Thong, my sister, she sometimes cook for me if my parents go to work on the weekend. I do not like the foods that my sister cook, because she's not a good cooker, but even though I don't like it, but I don't know how to cook. So the choice is to not complain anything to her or else she will not cook for me again. My parents actually let me lived in Seattle with my aunt and grandma for the last two years. They never leave from us like this before, and when they did that, we were shocked, but then we forget about the sadness and everything. But this is a helpful this for us too to live in Seattle for two years, because we actually learned how to speak English better.

     When there're any celebrations from the Cambodia's traditions and/or Chinese's tradition, we didn't celebrate it the way we used to do in Cambodia. I always see my friends posted the pictures of them when there're some celebrations going on, I was kind of jealous too, but I don't know what to do. In America, we only buy some fruits and our native desserts that our native people made for sells. The dessert doesn't taste the same like the one that made in our country, and it's because of the ingredients are different.
     The thing that I do not like about America is that I can't play with the rains when it's raining, because of the smokes from the factories that made the rain turn into the dirty rains. And this can make us sick if we play with them. In our country, we always play with the rains, because the rain is fresh and the weather is hot which make us feel better afterward. During the last two years, I used to play with the rain once, and my body turned hot. So after that, I never ever play with the rain that's in America again.
     I always wish to visit my country, I want to play with what I always play with, I want to feel what I always feel back then. I always hope these will happen at least one in my life. I am happy to come to America, but still, I do not like it that much as much as my own country. When I walked to America's school for the first time, I don't know what to do, I just do want everyone is doing, but after a week, I started to make more friends. My mom always says that if we do something a little bit wrong, we should say "sorry", instead of just walk away from them.
     These are some obstacles that happens to me and my family. I'm glad to go throw all of these things...