The goal is not to win the Super Bowl next season. It's about laying a foundation.
Mills is not the end, nobody ever thought he was. He's the means.
When I first got here to the States (in Shreveport, Louisiana) I had had some schooling at the Vietnamese-American Cultural Center in Saigon m
The goal is not to win the Super Bowl next season. It's about laying a foundation.
Mills is not the end, nobody ever thought he was. He's the means.
My first English teacher in the US gave us an essay to write, kinda like what you did last summer.
And I wrote about the ordeal when the four of us siblings left the country on the floor of a cargo plane , a C-41.
I still has it somewhere in the garage.
Whether I got some slack from the teacher is not the point.
My classmates, my friends, couldn't believe that I was proficient in English.
Yes, I killed it in all the Math and Science classes, but it was in English that I really earned it.
I even had the audacity to sign up for the Speech class in the second semester. I just want to learn and to improve myself even though I was in a clear disadvantage.
It was not the grade that I was after.
I didn't want to prove anything either.
I just figured I wanted to be normal, just as if I was still back in Vietnam.
On that end, it really helped me with my English.
It helped me to adapt quickly to life in America.
I made a lot of friends.
Guys on the football team, basketball team, soccer team, speech team, science team, math team.
I had a chance to mingle with them on Friday nights, go to the town square after games, go to the hang out place afterward, got accepted.
To me, that was a highlight.
To be able to hang out with a lot of different friends in highschool.
I also worked through highschool.
My classmates would see me (among "white boys and colored boys") at the school cafeteria.
Rarely did any of them saw me working after class.
I loved it all and would not change it for the world.
I learned a good bit of things from Mr. Buford, who learned me how to use tools from the hammer on.
What the heck, I just thought I share it here.