Show Vietnamese refugees tell their stories Hughes bvGrr life of 1H typical dav in the Tha Ho began with a bread and breakfast of fried eggs a two-milbicycle tot ti follow) bv Khoa high school rjj to Dang Ifa five hours of cla sswork Tha rode back home stopping on the of fixsball av to ploy a few games with his friends When he got home he would help Hi! family I lot of But He was sponsored by the hirst Baptist Church and has I teen in laigan for over three vears When I first got here Iaigan seemed s range and I would sav hello and nobody responded After I started school I made friends and now I like to have a conversation with an Americ an Hen Aoa rmer 1 resident of have ns a letter from home sister wrote a letter some months ago She said the Com munists made her leave Saigon and go to a new economic nine where Mv she would work on a farm he said Song Ha an 1H year old refugee from Saigon didn t have a change to complete high sc head when Saigon fell to t he ( 'ommumsts alxiul life around Saigon thev would put mines in buildings and they would collapse she said Song Ha attended laigan High for three months and now works as a seamstress When asked what they hked alxiut the U S the refugees un mediate resjmnse was ' freedom " W hat don t they like’ ' It a loo around the house and do stud) ing he said that was f fore his high graduation military service esc ape from Vietnam marriage and In April luikv reallv I was hometown in central 1975 mV thhanh Hoal fell to the Vietnam I looked for mv Communists famih m the west of Saigon where thev would have moved to escape ’ school s Communists "lmet my friend who was in the he told me to navy at Rach Gia and One morning we sta) with him heard on the radio the president the will give said we our ountrv to the c Communists in order to save blood and we knew Saigon fell 'We were on a navv ship which w here we took us to the I’hillipines for Guam We boarded a freighter lived for Guam in and months ” atxiut four monev earned spearfishing "Then we flew to ( amp Pen California where we staved for about two weeks There was I nothing to do there W hen got to Logan I got a job the dav I got here it Del Monte cannerv Today Tha Ho is one of 34 Vietnamese refugees living in dellon Cache Valley student The is at majonng in auto mechanics US U as well as working full time u a janitor tion movies and the F fi talavision show’ Ban said Ban and Tha like sjMirts sue h aa swimming aoc car and volley Iwll "I like to welch traakethall I want to one fnolliall game last year but didn t like it at all Irecause didn I understand the rules “ Tha said 1ha said that he thinks the U S aduc al lonal system IS vary gmd Its easy to learn in sc htsd over hare Icacausa they have enough lac hmc al equipment The iet names have their own version of Hallowrrn which ta called Trung Thu (autumn frsuvaJ) (n this holiday tha rhddcan make hamlioo lanterns in ddferer ' such is a fish Mister of a shaja-star Thev put a candle m tha lantern I he children cion I wear costumes but thev wear new clothes Thev usually go to actnoj and have a party and sing song- Tha said (hristmat in Vietnam la crlehratesj bv only tha I'i of tha pnjniUtirm that is ( hrislcan ami at NawV ear a the people atav home fie I wo of thrrw days Iha iet namase eat tha same kinds of food in tha US that they used to eat at home We rat a lot of rice and meal and a lot of seafood Wa like craft and lobster" they said Thev do some of their shopping al an oriental food store in laigan where they can buy rue paper rice sticks arid canned oysters and clams All four of tha Vietnamese aia In the process of attaining U S cit izenship Song Ha is planning on staving in Ixigan Ben and h wd may move to San Jose and ’I ha said t hat he may eventually mciv to California ietnamese refugees (from leftl Ben Ho Onion Thrh Tha Ho and Song U alley say what they like best about Ihrt'S la "freedom " now living in ( ache vi as hv a Saigim nponnored California businessman and moved to Iogan two vears ago He married Chuong Thath a refugee from the Bac Lieu province of Vietnam province of Vietnam last year and works futl time as a welder Ben is one of few refugees to ‘Sometime I heard the cannon shoot in the cit v and we were Related story on page 8 scared During tha war I kept going to school but sometimes worried fr f h W wtnmeae cold tha girls said Movias and talavision ara popular with tha four Viatnamasa TV is good I hka it because you learn English' Choung said I go to any t)pa of movias I don t cara But my favorita movias ara about war" '1 ha said I like cowboy and science fic allet West the Nutcracker presents allet Monday Jan 8 7:00 pm FAC CONVOCATION GREENPEACE Save the Whales THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 12:30 Fine Arts Center Tickets on sate now $250 with activity card sponsored by ASUSU U |