Show notes
My brothers generously share their story on the podcast today. They recount being drugged as children and put on a boat, spending 30 days at sea before arriving at Hong Kong where they spent the following four years of their lives, and seeing snow for the first time in Canada. Timestamps: The start (1:20), US sanctions (1:55), preparing to escape Vietnam (2:50), getting drugged as kids (3:23), sleeping on a sail boat for 28 days (4:50), asking US ships to take us as refugees (6:20), being stripped naked and hosed down for quarantine (8:40), feels weird sleeping on a bed for the first time in a month (10:20), life in a refugee camp as a 6 year old kid (11:50), fights and stabbings in the refugee camp (12:00), given English names (13:35), refugee camp economic society (15:00), donated toys for refugee children (16:40), interviews to go to Canada (17:50), throwing glass bottles to prevent others from freeloading off television time (19:50), studying for the interview with the United Nations (22:46), getting on an airplane for the first time ever (25:18), arriving in Quebec (25:45), seeing snow in real life for the first time (26:30), falling in love with hockey (28:40), getting bullied in school (29:25), driving from Quebec to Vancouver (33:25), pirates on sea (34:55), PTSD (36:00) and more.
