Tina Shimizu Chung at the again garden of her property in Walnut Creek, California, in which she has taken in nieces and nephews moving stateside for college or function. “My husband and I search at our house as a launching pad. You appear stay with us, we’ll appreciate on you and we’ll emotionally raise you. You’ll be refreshed so you can go charge your mountain out there,” she reported. “That’s component of that CHamoru and island mentality that we bought to consider care of every other, and assistance every single other.” She is aspect of Manny Crisostomo’s ongoing visible documentary “Manaotao Sanlagu: CHamorus from the Marianas,” translated as “our individuals, the CHamorus, abroad,” showcased weekly in the Pacific Daily Information and at sanlagu.com.
In January of this yr, Christina “Tina” Shimizu Chung was back household at a unique Mass for her mothers and fathers, Frank and Fermina “Meming” Shimizu.
She estimates about 250 people today — generally from the Shimizu, Gumataotao and San Nicholas clans, like her partner and 5 little ones — loaded the pews at Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral, in Hagåtña.
They were being all there to celebrate her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary at the identical church the place they reported their…