Talk:Aston Martin Vulcan/@comment-31044517-20180107190857/@comment-27736210-20180117052438

@Formula Emre

I found out some more information about my Maternal Grandmother. Apparently, she was living in Indonesia as a high school student and also went to university there (or something) and taught other students.

But when she was in her 20s (or something), one of her family friends tried to marry her. And in Indonesia, apparently, marriage often can't be refused in a situation like that.

So my Grandmother became a rebel. She left Indonesia and then joined the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Apparently, she studied French at that time. And she met my Paternal Grandfather during her stay in China.

Apparently, the law in Indonesia states that you can't return to that country if you start working for China. Because China is such a major world power and is hated by many of the smaller countries (much in the same way that Russia is hated by smaller countries like the -stan countries, Turkey and Ukraine), Indonesia considers those people as "traitors". So, my Maternal Grandmother, being a traitor to the Indonesians after working for the Chinese, ended up having to move to a different country. So she chose Australia.

That means my Grandmother has lived in 4 different countries in her life; she was born in Australia and lived there for 2 years, then her family was deported to Taiwan and she lived there for ~12 years, then she moved to Indonesia where she studied, then she moved to China, then she moved back to Australia (probably when she was 30-40 years old).

And my Grandmother can (or at least could) speak/write in French, English, several dialects of Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese and others), Indonesian, and also Burmese (because her husband is Burmese Chinese; I'm pretty sure she would have learnt some Burmese from him).

My Grandmother actually worked as a Chinese-to-English translator in Australia, in the past.

I think she has helped Chinese immigrants into Australia to communicate with the European people living here.