This is a couple of hours late for the extra credit, but I got really engaged with it so I figured I’d share anyway. Link to the original: Earrings One of these earrings comes from a pair that my great-grandmother owned, the only jewelry she ever had. The second earring was made to match the first, […]
My family originates from Sri Lanka, a tropical island country that is dutifully coined “the teardrop of India”. This ordinate statue represents my late paternal grandfather’s documentarist works. Throughout the majority of his life, my grandfather recorded video of the predominantly arborous landscape of the rural city of Paradenia. These recordings were a means of capturing […]
In my hands are grains of Jasmine rice: bought from the supermarket, imported from Thailand, grown by Thai farmers. Just like the bags of Jasmine rice, my grandparents and parents originated in Thailand and moved to the United States. With them, they brought over their food. The food I eat today is the food my […]
Cheburashka is a popular Russian cartoon character that was created by Eduard Uspensky in 1966. When my parents were children, this oddball of a character was one of their major sources of entertainment, which was rather scarce in the Soviet Union. Kids would wait patiently for the cartoon program appearing twice a week and lasting […]
