Interview With My Mom

I interviewed a 55-year-old woman Theresa Geis. She is married to Robert Gaith with four daughters, including me. They live in Denver, Colorado, and my daughter is still at home. Teresa got a master's degree in education and graduated, specializing in special education. She grew up in Greeley, Colorado but she likes Denver and is now where she is. Teresa and Robert owned the same house in Denver for 21 years and recently I bought a hut with an esthetic spark on the border of Rocky Mountain National Park.

I interviewed my mum and my uncle and I learned about my grandparents I did not know. I was living with my grandmother for many years as a child, but I never thought about how special her life is. After the establishment of New China in 1949, she experienced Japanese invasion of China, civil war, and confusion with the help of her husband, who had been absent for eternity, raising one and two children. Japanese soldiers make decisive competition in wide sunshine, murder women after raping, order men to dig his own grave before mass processing, pour kerosene into people, and put them in I ignited it. When the Japanese came to her village, did my grandmother survive with the two children? When soldiers burn the entire village, how do they manage it? I am very much wishing that I asked her these questions when I live!

I just interviewed my mother, so I did not think the interview had a big impact on me. Oh, but I am totally wrong. I left my interview and I learned about my mother's past, present and future. I was surprised by almost all the topics we discussed. Since I do not know my mother 's past, most of the answers I received gave me a shock. Just when you think you know your mother, you will find the real person. She seems almost like a stranger because I do not know the difficulty of growing with her immigrant parents, or the problem she has on learning English. Such details can be amazing when they think that they know everything about them.

I interviewed my mother about this project because she was the only one I encountered face to face during the semester. It is difficult to talk to my grandmother on the phone. My mother is not good at cooking, but I grew up with my grandmother in Shanghai, my grandfather's hometown. Before my grandfather moved to Xi'an, my hometown, she was able to taste the original taste of the house and compare my grandmother's dish with the original taste of Shanghai home cooked.