Van-Ly Doan, Livestock Environment Engineer
About Me
Getting settled
My parents farmed in Viet Nam. Here they have worked various minimum wage jobs. My dad now works for the Town of Swan River as a labourer and my mom owns the local laundromat.
They didn't speak or write in English very well. It took them awhile to adjust to the cold, the food and being in a different country without knowing anybody. It was tough economically but in Canada, at least they got to eat every day.
I learned to speak English at school. At home, we spoke Vietnamese. My dad showed me how to do math, but everything else I learned at school.