The happiest memories I have is when it was December time in (kyaw Tha Lu in Burma). When I was young, I would go to the temple and I really enjoyed it. Since we were kids, everything was fun for us. I had one kid, and I moved to Mae La Camp in 2003 with my husband when I was 20 years old. All my neighbor were Christians and when it came to December night I would join my Christian friends to celebrate. It was the happiest time for me. In 2005, I became Christian.

In Kyaw Tha Lu, I was 14 or 15 years old and I had an opportunity to visit other towns with my friends. We would visit temples and pray there. I still remember it till today how much fun I had during my childhood with friends. Some of my friends were here in America, and we would call each other and talked about our childhood. For Karen tradition we would celebrated wrist tie and drive the spirits away during August. We also honor our grandparents, parents and each other. Then we would eat together, and the food we ate were bamboo shoot soup, sticky rice, rice, and different types of curry.