Blog #3: I am a Boat Person

It was May of 1986, my dad got arrested again for trying to escape Vietnam. He was arrested a few years prior with a year and a half sentence. This time, my mom was pregnant with me at 3 months. Though she already had my 2 brothers, my mom stood by his side despite his…

Blog #2: All About That … Mark

“This is why I can’t have nice things,” said a happy camper in a skit attempting to mimic UVSA SoCal’s president. We were challenged to put together a music video using a given person, song, show genre and a Vietnamese word – one of the many activities my camp family and I did together that…