Name: The First Lady Speaks on Education at Number 7 School in Chengdu, China
Uploaded: 2014-06-03T03:59:44.000Z
Duration: 15 min 6 s
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Now, before I get started, on behalf of myself

and my husband, I want to say that our hearts go out

at Peking University, we are very much keeping

all of them in our thoughts and our prayers

So now, let me start by thanking your Principal,

Principal Liu, and your classmate, Ju Chao,

(applause) And I want to thank all of the students

here today, both those of you here in person

It's a public school near the White House

in Washington, D.C., and all of the students

They had recently taken a trip here to China,

They were eager to tell me about everything

But they admitted that before their trip,

they had all kinds of misconceptions about China.

They thought they would see palaces and temples

everywhere they went, but instead they found

They weren't sure that they'd like the food

here in China, but they actually loved it,

And in the end, one of the students told me --

and this is his quote -- he said, "Coming home was

really exciting, but was at the same time sad."

me that when we live so far away from each other,

how we speak different languages and eat different

But as I travel the world, and I meet young people

from so many countries, I'm always struck

we lived in a tiny apartment in Chicago, which is one

My father worked at the local water plant.

And we didn't have much money, but our little

We'd play card games and have fun for hours.

And on summer nights, I remember, when our

apartment got too hot, we'd all sleep outside

and my elderly great aunt and uncle lived in the apartment

my parents stepped in, helping my uncle shave

and dress each morning, dashing downstairs

in the middle of the night to check on my aunt.

So in my family, like in so many of your families,

my parents had big dreams for me and my brother.

of their hope into us, and they worked hard.

You see, my father had a serious illness called

And as he got sicker, it got harder for him