Skip to main content

A Recollection of Stories from My Mom

Support Provided By
Ivan

By Ivan Wu

My dad works until 2 am so he's usually too tired when he's at home to want to do an interview. My mom is a seamstress and she works for about 12 hours, when she gets home she even cooks dinner, but she's always tired so I don't want to bother her with a trivial interview.

I will be telling you about my mom, from recollection of stories she has told me in the past. My mom immigrated from a small farming village by plane. She immigrated because most of her family was already in America. She thought it'd be a better life here in America. Life was hard in China, being the oldest sibling and such, she had to give up a lot. When her family immigrated, they didn't have enough money to send all of them there. My mother was left behind in China, while her parents, two younger sisters, and a younger brother went off the America. She always had to do more work on the farm and was expected to be more responsible because she was older. When she got older, she saved up the money and came to America.

As an early immigrant life was very hard. She moved in with her family that was already here and worked as a seamstress. She went to an adult school for a short while and tried to learn some English, but was never able to fully learn because she was always working to help out the family. Her younger siblings, however, learned English and other things much easier because they were younger.

Life in America now for her is fairly decent. She's happy that she raised her family pretty well. She does not regret immigrating to America. Even though life is hard now, she hopes for a better tomorrow. She hopes that her children will grow up to be successful and be able to support her well into old age.

Support Provided By
Read More
Gray industrial towers and stacks rise up from behind the pitched roofs of warehouse buildings against a gray-blue sky, with a row of yellow-gold barrels with black lids lined up in the foreground to the right of a portable toilet.

California Isn't on Track To Meet Its Climate Change Mandates. It's Not Even Close.

According to the annual California Green Innovation Index released by Next 10 last week, California is off track from meeting its climate goals for the year 2030, as well as reaching carbon neutrality by 2045.
A row of cows stands in individual cages along a line of light-colored enclosures, placed along a dirt path under a blue sky dotted with white puffy clouds.

A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market

California is considering changes to a program that has incentivized dairy biogas, to transform methane emissions into a source of natural gas. Neighbors are pushing for an end to the subsidies because of its impact on air quality and possible water pollution.
A Black woman with long, black brains wears a black Chicago Bulls windbreaker jacket with red and white stripes as she stands at the top of a short staircase in a housing complex and rests her left hand on the metal railing. She smiles slightly while looking directly at the camera.

Los Angeles County Is Testing AI's Ability To Prevent Homelessness

In order to prevent people from becoming homeless before it happens, Los Angeles County officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to predict who in the county is most likely to lose their housing. They would then step in to help those people with their rent, utility bills, car payments and more so they don't become unhoused.