Vlad Tenev
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He moved over there.
And he had to go by himself because he wasn't sure whether we had a future in the country, you know.
And then my mom came about a year later.
And then I came about six months after her in summer of 1992.
Basically, I finished kindergarten in Bulgaria.
I stayed with my grandparents.
But yeah, I... What do you remember about your first trip?
That was my first trip out of the country.
The first trip on a plane.
And I remember, you know, one of my memories was like...
my weekly phone call with my dad.
Because back then, of course, it was very expensive to call between US and Bulgaria.
So it was once a week for basically 10 minutes we would get on the phone.
And how long hadn't you seen him?
There's still pictures of me from when I landed at JFK.
My parents took these pictures of me.
And I remember my aunt brought me over.
She was like a punk rock teenager at the time.