VAOHP0047 1 Vietnamese American Oral
VAOHP0047 1 Vietnamese American Oral History Project, UC Irvine Narrator: DANH NHUT QUACH Interviewer: Michelle Pham Date: May 6, 2012 Location: Huntington Beach, California Sub-collection: Community Interviewers Length: 01:17:28 Transcriber: Khanh Bui Translator: Diane Tran DQ: My name is Quach Nhut Danh and I am a pharmacist, I was born in May 27th, 1939. MP: Where were you born? DQ: I was born in Sóc Trăng, Vietnam. MP: What is the city? DQ: The city is Sóc Trăng. MP: Ok, Can you tell a little bit about the memory of your childhood? DQ: How is the childhood memory? What do you want to know? MP: Like when you were young, your daily activities like waking up in the morning, having breakfast, go to school, what is your regular day? DQ: During that time as you know the time I lived in Việt Nam when I was young we lived under the French, so my parents sent me to school and our condition was very poor, very limited. My childhood was not like young people here…That time was before the war, after 1945 which was war time, I still went to school with the same poor condition and nothing compared here like I walked to school or if I rode my bike it did not even have a break, it was very hard. During the war time and after the war time with France, French people were exhausted, so our country Việt Nam went to a very hard and difficult condition during that period of time. I remembered when I was 9,10 years old, my father bought for me a bike as I said earlier that bike did not have a break, I had to ride until I wanted to stop then I put both my feet down to stop it.
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