Spring Roll Recipe: Interview with Kwol
As part of the DMA-Dega project with UNC School of the Arts, two Montagnard refugee women demonstrated how to make spring rolls. In the course of the presentation, Kwol, a Montagnard from the Koho tribe, remembered her life before she came to America. Filmed in Winston-Salem, NC. Transcription (with interpretation to make the speaker's answers clearer): How old were you when you went to the jungle? I was twelve... No eleven years old (in 1979). I had been in the jungle for twelve years. Then I came to the USA in 1992. Now I'm 43. That was long ago! I gave birth to two babies — two kids — in the jungle. I gave birth to them myself, no doctor, no people to take care of them. I took care of them myself. I cut the umbilical cord myself, I did it by myself. I took care of two kids in the jungle. Then one girl was born over here in the USA. I had a doctor over here. Then my family felt hurt. They cried for me. Because why? Because they didn't know where I was. Because some people didn't know. Why did you stay there like that (in the jungle out of contact)? Then my dad died. I don't know. My mom, my mom's 100 right now. Yeah, my mom's 100 now. She's old, old, very old. I take care of her right now. I say to her, "I still borrow your money." I tell my mom and dad — my dad is gone now — but I tell my mom, "I still borrow from you." "Why do you say 'I borrow?'" Because she took care of me! Then when I get money— even just a little bit — I send it to her. Yes. Then I explain to her <b>...</b>
