My Asian Friend with an Asian Mother

Alright so I know that I just did another post, but this seemed like it deserved to be put on here for all of you to see.

I was trying to think of something cool from MY family history that I could post on this blog, and I wasn't coming up with anything that seemed very interesting (don't worry, I'm still searching).  But in the mean time I thought I would ask one of my friends from high school who is Asian (and has a mom from Japan) if her side of the family went through anything that we have read about.  I was getting really excited, like somehow my friend's family was going to have gone through it ALL.  I was thinking to myself "Oh yeah I will really impress Doug with this blog entry."

So today I was talking to my friend on Skype, and I remembered that I was going to ask him about his mom.  So I say "Hey Canyon, I'm in this class called Asian-American Lit. and we are learning about Asians who moved to America and how they were discriminated against.  Basically the story of American history from an Asian standpoint.  Now I know that your mom is Japanese, and I was wondering if her family would have any good stories about moving to America?"  At this point, I'm getting REALLY excited, like my friend is just going whip out his great-great grandmothers journal and read me something from it about how hard the move to America was. My friend simply replies "My mom was adopted from Japan..."

You can imagine my dissapointment.

So I will get back to work on finding something from MY family's past and post it as soon as possible.  I think that I'm going to have to call in the Grandmas for some help on this one, wish me luck.