I'm a Colorado native and first-generation Vietnamese-American. Thanks to some weird genes, I look about ten years younger than I actually am. I've been an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) since 2012 and have been involved with a local nonprofit, Venturing Emergency Rescue Team, Crew 911 (branch of Boy Scouts) since my teen years. 

 My past and present have been rather jagged and painfully dreadful. I grew up in a rather dysfunctional family that led to divorce and constant verbal abuse through a child custody battle. To be honest, I had no childhood. I grew up as the eldest child so all the expectations of lost dreams and lost opportunities that my parents had were shoved into my face. Getting anything less than perfect scores was absolutely unsatisfactory. I had to interpret for my mother constantly. My father was....always unpleasant. On the bright side, my Vietnamese is better than most Vietnamese-American born. Though my literacy in it isn't that great--so karaoke is my friend in learning to read and spell the language.