 All right, early. I was adopted when I was one year old from Yinchuan, China, and then I moved to the United States. So it has been kind of a unique experience because I am Chinese but my family is not. But it is so really cool to have those traditions and be able to learn about them even if I wasn't able to grow up with those. I grew up in Korea for 10 years and I came to the States around 6th, 7th grade. I've been living here for 12 years now in the States. Growing up my childhood is mainly based in Asia and coming to the States I get to really experience a whole other level of cultural differences and it really kind of makes you think in different ways and that's I think really valuable when it comes to shaping a person's identity and their personality. Growing up it was a little difficult for me to find the balance between the culture that I'm growing up with now and the culture that my parents grew up with. They have very different traditions that I value that I hope to be able to pass on to my kids one day. Yeah I think it's really important that since my parents come from such a rich heritage with such a diverse culture I really want to be able to maintain it and I think it's really important for me that I maintain this rich background that my parents raised me up with. Growing up my parents started a small hibachi restaurant in my hometown. They basically started from the grounds up. They had barely anything immigrating from China to America and so as a kid me and my sister really worked in the restaurant as young kids and learned from a very young age what working hard is like, having dedication and just being very driven. Sometimes people ask me how do I work so hard and that's basically because I understand a lot of the sacrifices my family had to go through to get me to this position so I'm constantly grateful for you know my grandparents my parents for all the sacrifices they made they really struggled to get to America it's sort of a combination of a lot of people's efforts to get me to where I am. There's differences between all of these countries and parts of countries in Asia and there's representatives from all of them here at Purdue and we should celebrate that and we should learn more about those cultures.