Germany 2009: Getting to know you
Sep 09, 2009 in Me Me Me
I’ve spent the last few days getting to know the German side of my family.
About 40 years ago, my father’s older brother, Lian Hie, left Indonesia for medical school in Germany. Over the next few years two other siblings joined him. None of them ever came home, deciding to stay in Europe instead.
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Along the way, they all got married, had kids and carved out pretty great lives for themselves here.
Lian Hie ended up marrying an American exchange student from Missouri (my aunt Becky). Kiong, one of his brothers became a doctor and Siok San, his sister, also went into medicine but opted to do acupuncture instead.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from this (other than the fact that my many of my cousins are pretty damn good-looking) is that migration is in the Tan genetic code.
We move around, a lot. More importantly, no matter where we end up we don’t just survive, we do well. There’s a lot to be said for that.