few friends, but it didnt feel the same as when I was in Virginia. Flash forward few years later Im in middle school. I met a friend who is also Filipino-American. It was so cool sharing stories with each other. We would talk about our favorite filipino dishes and teach each other some words in Tagalog. I grew up in a household where my parents would speak to each other in Tagalog, but speak to me in English. I remember some times in middle school when I would bring a filipino dish for lunch. Sometimes I would see people looking at my food all weird while my friends and a few others would look at my food saying the food I have looks delicious. Because of the people that looked at my food in a weird way in middle school I stopped bringing those dishes when I went to high school. In high school, I started packing sandwiches for lunch. Thinking about it now, its crazy why I did that. It wasnt until attending college at Western Washington University that I started to embrace my Filipino-American identity. I joined the Filipino American Student Association (FASA) Club and Sayaw sa Western my first year. In four years Ive got the chance to meet alot of Filipino-Americans in WWU FASA and NWFASA. Because of WWU FASA and NWFASA I le |
