 I'm so excited. We're excited to see you too. Tell us who you are. Tell us your name and what country you're calling from. I'm from Cambodia. And your name? My name is Ron Kuy. Great. Welcome, Ron. Welcome to talk to us. And you know, you're our second caller from Cambodia today. Very unusual. Oh, really? Yes. It's nighttime there, right? Yes. You know what? Actually, I'm working, so I don't have much time, but today is my day off. Good. But I'm still learning English. That's good to do on your day off. Where do you work or what kind of job do you do? I work in Walmart. In where? Walmart? Walmart? Yes. The store. In the store, yes. Did you know you were at Walmart in Cambodia? No, no, no. Right now, I'm living in the United States in Florida. Oh, okay. All right, all right. We thought we had a news story about Walmart. Walmart is the world's largest retail chain, chain of retail stores. And I know that they've got international operations in a lot of countries. But, okay, so you're actually calling us from Florida. Yes, from Florida. I live in Florida, really close with Miami. Oh my goodness. So you have all of the college students coming for spring break, right? Because Motherdale is very happy. Is it crowded? It's not really. But since I got a job, so I quit my school. And which school do you go to? I just, right now, I just like ESL. Oh, ESL, good. I don't have, like, I need to, like, GED, finish GED, but the first time I failed. But now I try again, yes. We should explain a GED is, instead of graduating from high school, it's an equivalency degree. So you don't have to do all four years of high school. You take a test and you get your GED, your equivalency. So you get, like, a high school diploma. And also, we should explain what ESL is. It's English as a second language, right? Yes. ESL. Yes, second language. So tell us a little bit about your job. What's it like working in Walmart? And what kind of work do you do there? I work in Delhi, but right now I just got a new position. I am now a manager of Delhi. Congratulations. Thank you so much. So you manage other people and tell them what to do. Yeah, in the department. Great. The Delhi department. The Delhi, the delicatessen. Yes, where you get lunch meat or meat to try. I didn't realize Walmart had that delicatessen. It just opened about maybe a year now. I just got a job about two years ago. This April 14, I worked with them for two years. Congratulations on that. How long have you lived in this country? It's going to be three years and five months. And what brought you to the United States? My husband. Your husband. Is he American or is he Cambodian? He is a Gyanese. Gyanese. Oh my goodness. But he grew up in the United States. Do you know what, before I don't speak English, but I came here, I go to school and take, and he trained me to practice how to pronounce. But I still speak backward. No, you're actually good. You're doing very well. So now your husband is a Gyanese, so English is his first language? Yes. And so I'm assuming he helped you with your... Where did you meet? Do you mind if we ask? Where did you meet? Your husband. A second, please. Where did you meet your husband? It's a long story. You know what? We have time. It's all right. You don't have to answer if it's personal. Okay. I can tell. It's not a big deal. Okay. He has a friend in California. Yes. She always visited Cambodia every year, so he told his friends that he needs a marriage from over there, and she said, like, okay, just give her a time and see. I don't know her too, but she actually know my cousin. Oh. Small world, right? So did you meet your husband at all before you got married, or before you came to this country? No? No. Oh, my. So I had the youth to my cousin, and then my cousin told me, now we have the guy in overseas who wants to marry, so she asked me, and I said, okay, let me see. That's interesting. You know, actually I want to be here. Well, that's nice. I mean, so that's... And you've been married now. How many years? I'm going to be... I came over here about, like, 2010, August. Oh. So it's coming up on three years. All right, Ron. You have to tell me August. Okay. Ron, you have to tell me as a woman. When you first saw him, what did you think? I can't imagine seeing my husband for the first time, knowing that I was going to marry him. Oh. It's one more thing. I'm not interesting with him, but I'm an interesting one to be in the United States. Oh. Oops. We won't tell anybody. We're just the world when we post inside. But it sounds like things have worked out. Yes. And I mean, they arranged marriages, you know, happen. Absolutely. And that's... All over the world. And it's good. You're here now. Has he visited Cambodia with you and met your family? Oh, yeah. The first time he came down over there, we just won't be in touch with me. Oh. So you didn't meet him before you came to the United States? Nothing. But after he was like, his friend introduced me with him. We chat, we e-mailed back and forth about six months. Yeah, we had to know each other first. Yeah, and then he said, okay, now everything comes smooth. He said, okay, he's going to come to see me. And so you introduced him to your family. What did your... You have parents? What did they say? Mom and dad? I actually, before I had only mom, I don't have my father. So my mom, she said, okay, up to me because I'm not young. So she left. That's why she said, okay, up to me that I decide. I say, okay, now he come down and want to see my family. And after that, he proposed me, okay, now he want to engage. Wow. Fascinating story. That's a nice one, a nice story. Yeah. So, okay, so tell us a little bit. You're now the manager of the deli section at a Walmart. Really, for people who aren't familiar, it's a very big store that sells like everything. Oh yeah, it sells a lot and a huge store. Yeah. And so, what's a typical day like for you? What do you mean? What kinds of things do you do in your job? I mean, do you mostly manage or do you serve food as well? Do you meet the customers? Yes, yes, so food as well. And we, actually we sell like kind of like, I don't know, because my country, they don't have all stuff like that. Right, the different names of things. They come up with like meat and cheese and we have like some food already cooked. Now, in Fort Lauderdale, do you have a large Cambodian population? Only me. Only you. Only, only probably. Go on Google, you know, Facebook. I have one in West Palm Beach. I have one family over there. Last time I just come down here, I went to see them. They say, oh, only that they are family. Oh, that's good. Yeah, but actually I like to, you know, I thought like, I don't know, I always thought like, I'm growing Cambodian language, but now I come to learn English. I have to find people who speak English. Right, to learn English better. Yeah, to learn English better, but sometimes we miss your family or the same native. Yeah, they come, you can practice, but oh, so poor. Yeah, but it's good to practice. You're good. Yeah, it's good to practice, but I, you know what, when I just came, got a job, I don't know English very well. I don't know nothing, but when they called me, I applied by online. Oh, but he helped me to find, put our application by online. Good. Yes, but the first time I failed, maybe three jobs because of my English. Oh, right. I have experience in the store in my country, but you know, it depends, when you move to another country, everything start new, everything over. Yeah. Right, you have to start at the bottom and work out. Well, there's one question I'm interested in. So now your name is spelled R-O-N. Yeah. In that English, right? Ron. Yes. Which is typically, it typically is a male name. Right. And so, I have no idea how to ask my mom. It has to answer, yeah. It's not shortened? Because sometimes they shorten names. Now, the people in my workplace, they call me say Ron, look like my name, but okay, whatever they want to call, they call me Ronny. I said, okay, it's Ron. R-O-N-I. Yes, Ronny, yeah. Yeah, because like, Ronda, people, Ronda is a woman's name and it's often shortened to Ronny or Ron, but people who don't know you, do they assume sometimes that from your name that you're a man and not a woman? Yeah, sometimes they call you want to call Mr. Ron and say, oh, it's not, it's amazing. You know what I love about Iran? I love your love of life. It's really hard. You know what, a good job, you know how I got a job the first time in Walmart, I am a maintenance. Oh, maintenance worker. Yeah, that was a hard one. But I don't, I don't know what is a maintenance mean when they ask me because I got a job, so yes. Because you wanted a job no matter what. Yes, you don't know what how to job, so I said, probably, because you know after I learned probably English, so I can move up. Right. I'm lucky, I said, okay, Ron, right now, want to move the cashier. I said, okay, very well. Right. But I couldn't get for six months. He said, after six months, I can apply for another position. I said, no, and then I have manager, co-manager. He asked me, Ron, want to work with Delhi because Delhi they just open. I'm not smart. I said, yes,