My mother never ...

My mother never said NO to any my ideas and activities. I was from Saigon, Vietnam where most of parents were influenced by Asian culture. Normally parents were demanding and controlling their children. Excepting for my mother, she did not demand her children to follow her instructions or directions but rather than listen to us for reasons. In addition, she usually taught us “time is valuable and do not waste it.” When I was small, every summer I asked her that I wanted to enroll in embroidery class because I saw my friend going there. Even she knew that I just learnt for fun anyway she still agreed to give money to me to enroll in. I knew that it was hard for her to give money away because by that time my family was not very well in finance. For the most important of my life and also for her, when I was about twenty years old I decided to escape from Vietnam by boat. From beginning, it was hard for me to convince her that it would be alright and that I would arrive safely to the third country. I told her “just imagine that you and me travel from city to our home town.” My home town is way down of the south, it takes about twelve hours if I go by boat. I kept telling her everyday and finally she agreed to let me and my younger brother to leave. Luckily for us that we arrived to the Indonesia refugee camp safely after seven days throughout the storm and Thai pirate. After hearing our escaping journey, she felt so scared and relieved that we were survived. That is my mother, she never regretted to say no to us.