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I came to this country looking for work when it was still Czechoslovakia. I worked in a factory and I didn’t really need to learn Czech. I could get by using the basics or friends helped me out who spoke it well. Life was good here in comparison with Vietnam, and the best thing was that I met Tot. The two of us decided to have a family together. After the revolution, when the deadlines ran out in the treaties between the then Czechoslovakia and Vietnam, I helped my husband, who had set up his own business. At first he wanted to create a limited liability company with other people, but later on he found out that it would be better to work on his own using a Trade Licence. I don’t really understand, but that’s how he explained it to me at any rate.
After the revolution came a whirlwind began of work permits and the rest. Although Tota wants to stay here, I sometimes dream of returning to Vietnam. My husband started his own business, he became quite successful, and I was able to quit my job at the factory. Basically I became a housewife and sometimes I help in the restaurant. I’ve been here a long time, I understand simple conversations in Czech, but I don’t speak much, I don’t have a large enough vocabulary and the pronunciation causes me problems. My daughter often has to translate for me! | 
