Anh is not just a survivor (she and her father were among the "boat people" refugees), but a hard-working, grateful, kind, companionable, and accomplished individual. She and her friends (one Austrian and one Japanese, both new professors) represent one thing July 4 celebrates: our country's strength in diversity and freedom.Monday, July 6, 2009
A Lesson for the Fourth
In 1988, I taught eighth-grade English for the first time. One of my fifteen or so students was a Vietnamese girl who had arrived with her father in the U.S. only about 9 years earlier. She proved to be a fine student and a life-long friend. Now completing her Ph.D. in business, Anh and her friends Tina and Fumi, a couple who marry in a month, spent two nights and a day to celebrate the Fourth of July with me in Sewanee.
Anh is not just a survivor (she and her father were among the "boat people" refugees), but a hard-working, grateful, kind, companionable, and accomplished individual. She and her friends (one Austrian and one Japanese, both new professors) represent one thing July 4 celebrates: our country's strength in diversity and freedom.
Anh is not just a survivor (she and her father were among the "boat people" refugees), but a hard-working, grateful, kind, companionable, and accomplished individual. She and her friends (one Austrian and one Japanese, both new professors) represent one thing July 4 celebrates: our country's strength in diversity and freedom.
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