Chen

=Lily Chen.=

Podcast
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BIOGRAPHICAL/GEOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Mrs. Chen is from the Country of Taiwan. She was born and raised in Taiwan. Her birthday is December 9, 1961. When she came to the United States she was 25, and she made the move with her husband. They lived in Iowa City, Iowa when they first came to America. Mrs. Chen attended the University of Minnesota for her college education. She and her husband have two kids now and live in Dayton, Ohio. Her current job is teaching Chinese at the Dayton Regional STEM School where she handles normal and DEP (dual enrollment program) classes. Her previous Job was teaching Chinese at Oakwood High School. She also likes Taiwanese food and also Taiwanese music and soap operas.

Taiwan is an island country off of the coast of china. The island has 2 main languages but mandarin is the main dialect and Taiwanese is the other. The climate is a tropical and marine and gets very rainy in the monsoon season. Has small deposits of coal and natural gasses for natural resources and also has a lot of limestone, marble, and asbestos. Taiwan is a multiparty democracy and he capitol of Taiwan is Tai Pei.

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT
Huntsberger: Okay Mrs. Chen I just have three questions.

Chen: Okay.

Huntsberger: Did you find the immigration test at all difficult, like trying to find time to study and trying to find a job, are the questions at all difficult.

Chen: The Immigration test with the one hundred questions, if you don’t surely it’s very hard. Some questions are the kind you must prepare for beforehand, so you take weekends to study.

Huntsberger: Was trying to find time to study hard, did you have a place to stay when you arrived or did you have to look for one when you got here, if so did this conflict with trying to find time to study.

Chen: Well sure I had a place to stay when I got here and I had applied for my citizenship here in Dayton, ok what is your next question.

Huntsberger: Did you come here alone?

Chen: No, I came here with my husband and I came for university.

Huntsberger: Which university?

Chen: I went to the University of Minnesota.

Huntsberger: So is Minnesota where you first lived when you came to America.

Chen: Actually the first place we lived is Iowa, Iowa city.

Huntsberger: How old were you when you came to America?

Chen: Oh we were about 25 years old.

Huntsberger: Did being that age make it any harder to move to America because you had lived in Taiwan for so long? Chen: No, it wasn’t difficult because we were pretty mature. Before we came we studied the United States a lot, and we pretty much know a lot about this country.

Huntsberger: Thank you I’ll let you get back to your lunch now.

ANALYSIS
I learned that immigration can be a very tough thing and was even looked down upon in history and that it could cause you not to get a job or a house and may determine where you would live in a city. I think my interview shows the good things that can happen when you are an immigrant. My interview shows the present and the future of immigration and the plus side of it. Mrs. Lily Chen is now a Chinese teacher at The Dayton Stem School and is an example of the way all immigrant should live and the way they should be successful.