Exercise 5 Anh arrived in Boston in December, 1979. She had only her suit- case and her English dictionary. The only person she knew in the United States was her cousin Pho. He and his wife To-van were there to meet her at the airport. She was very happy to see them! That evening Anh asked Pho and To-Van many questions. She wanted to know about Boston and about Americans. She was sur- prised that To-van often could not answer her questions. To-van's friends were all Vietnamese people. She shopped only at the Viet- namese stores in their neighborhood. She worked at Pho's Vietnamese restaurant nearby. So To-van did not know much about Boston, and she did not speak English very well. That night Anh made a decision before she went to sleep. She decided that she did not want to be like To-van. She wanted to speak English well. She wanted to go to school with Americans and she wanted to work with them. Of course she did not want to forget about Vietnam. But she wanted to be part of her new country. It was not easy. There were many new things in her life. The first winter in Boston seemed very cold to Anh. In January, she started studying at the high school. English was a serious problem. She could not understand her teachers and they could not understand her. Anh often felt very unhappy and alone. Her old home in Saigon seemed very far away and she missed her family terribly. But by summer the worst times were over for Anh. Her English was much better, and she began to make some friends at school. For the next two years she studied very hard. In math. science, and French she was the best student in her class. She won a prize for a chemistry experiment. But, best of all at the end of her last year of high school, she won a scholarship to college. The scholarship was very important to Anh. She needed the money to go to college. Going in college was the key to success, she knew. Finally Anh had a plan. She planned to study science and computers in college. After college she could get a good job. She could eam money and send it to her mother. Then her mother could come to the United States, too. It seemed a long time to wait. But Anh knew she could do it! And she did. Topic Events​signal. events