Teresa Yang and Zena Zendejas
Recorded
August 30, 2020
Archived
August 30, 2020
39:21 minutes
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Id:
mby020009
Description
Teresa Yang (40) talks with new friend and StoryCorps Facilitator Zena Zendejas (31) about growing up in China, memories of her mother who was a strong influence on her, and leaves life lessons passed down from her mother to her, for her 4-year old daughter.Subject Log / Time Code
TY shares some favorite memories of growing up with “unconventional” Chinese parents in China. TY then describes how her parents were unconventional.
TY describes her grandparents before her being doctors and losing her grandmother to cancer and knowing she wanted to help people too so she became a physical therapist.
TY describes how she thinks her mother would deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and what her perspective about life and death was.
TY talks about her mother’s various skills and perseverance and lessons she instilled in TY.
TY talks about what she thinks her mother would have taught TYs daughter.
TY talks about what she thinks she learned from her mother’s practice of always keeping promises.
TY speculates what lessons her daughter might learn from her fathers side of the family in India.
Participants
- Teresa Yang
- Zena Zendejas