The things you say to me, affect me more than you think I worked in the supermarket until the evening and tried to produce art after that, but I just couldn't. I felt useless, the praise I usually got from other people in school before was now completely meaningless,
We are Vietnamese. I thought we were a community, however, we aren't. I have always felt like an outsider inside the Vietnamese community in Germany, or at least in Freiburg, where I have been living until I enrolled in university.
Now that the freshmen have arrived, I thought I could write an update concerning my university life. I have been studying Japanese and Information Science at university for one year now.
One summervacation I got a job in the company where my father works. When my former boss contacted me to ask me whether I could work for him again, I told him that I found another job.
People expect you to behave and dress a certain way so that they can identify you as male or female. They can't deal with things they don't know, things they don't understand. They want to push their expectations and world view on you.
This is going to be a longer series. I will divide it into several parts, otherwise it will get too long. However, I don't know how many parts there will be yet. It will be finished, when I feel like I have written down everything.