Pasang Tamang

Born: 1st August 1951

Kathmandu, Nepal

Date of interview: 29th August 2006

So quite heavily pregnant, and you arrived and it was snowing in December, and what was your first impression of England?

When I came over it was snowing, it was very, very dark, very cold, and my husband came and picked us up, took us to a room in Southall. We had one room in one house, and then after hehad dropped me and everyone else off he went to work. And then he came back with a takeaway from the restaurant a little bit later. I didn't really like it that much because when I was in the village I had my family, food was plentiful, I understood everything, and when came over I couldn't understand Hindi either or English.