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Christina Vang Yang
I am an Asian-American girl, daughter, and student. I currently attend Century College in White Bear Lake.

Biography
I was born on November 12, 1992 in Hastings, Minnesota to my father Jeffrey and my mother Lue. I was the fifth child out of eight kids. I have 3 older siblings who were from my mom’s first marriage and 4 from my mom’s current marriage. My family speaks Hmong, making me bilingual, who speaks fluent in Hmong and English. While growing up, my family moved around a lot from places to places. So I didn’t really have great memories as a kid.

School
I have been to many schools because of the constant moving of my family. Finally, my family decided to settle down in Cottage Grove; where I went to school at Oltman Junior High for middle school and Park High School for my remaining years. When I was a student at Oltman, I was always part of the A or B honor roll students. My school didn’t really have Asian students so I became good friends with the Caucasian. I like going to schools in the suburb because I love how I don’t get influenced to stay with the wrong group of people. Then when I went into 10th grade, I started dropping out of the A and B honor roll students because of always having fun. But I took some fun classes and electives while in high school. I graduated from Park High School in June of 2011.

College Life
After I graduated from Park High School, I decided to enroll at Century College. At first, I was just planning on majoring in VCT (Visual Communication Technology) for the area of Photography. I actually liked the classes that I took but eventually I decided to choose a different major where I can actually go in my life. So I changed my major to Education because of my joy and love for kids. While at Century College, I started joining clubs and activities. For my first year at college I joined Century’s ASA (Asian Student Association), ICC (Inter Cultural Club), and PAC (Planning Activities Committee). After joining the clubs, I have notice a lot of things that I did not know about other ethnicity. To be able to know and learn of other cultures or talk with other cultures are very interesting.

Tragedy
On March 16, 2011, three months before my high school graduation my father passed away. My father was one of my role models in my life. Whenever I needed someone to talk to about things in life or specifically school in general, I would go to him. My father will always be a huge part of my life.

Miscellaneous
On December 8, 2009, my 2 sisters, my mom and I travelled to Thailand. It was a great experience for me. But another reason why we went to Thailand was because my mom’s side of the family lives there. It was good for me to have met and become close with them. My cousins and uncles showed us around some parts of Thailand. We went to the Hmong villages, Pataya, Bangkok, and Changmai. Everywhere I went there was beautiful scenery. In the future, when I have time I would love to go back to Thailand and continue my traveling where I left off.