opportunity.

when people talk about helping minorities and people who are the first in their families to go to university, they're thinking, it seems to me, of ethnic communities in cities, not middle-class families in the suburbs. because the suburbs are white, right? or asian, and asians don't need help with school. ha. what asians are is proud. too proud to ask for financial or academic help.

he's just left to go to his first class of his third try at completing university. he's scared all over again. his parents are immigrants and refugees; they would not have gone to university in their home countries, and they only ever completed community college here. they had no idea what it would be like, they had no idea how much it would cost, and they insisted he work while going to school his first time around. and his second time. needless to say, the demands of feeding oneself quickly outweigh an educational goal that is treated as nothing more than optional glorified job training.

but this is, after all, the U.S. of A., and whatever else you may say about it, people here to get as many chances as they can make for themselves.

all my support and love goes with him. third time's a charm, right? :)