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Recently, COPIA hosted nearly 90 Hmong students from Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California to tour our gardens and exhibitions.  I came into work early that morning feeling anxious about how I would explain our exhibition, Transplanting Culture: Hmong Gardeners in America, as the students are just learning English.  For that matter, most arrived in the United States only six months ago from refugee camps in Thailand.  I even chuckled thinking that if communication wasn’t an issue they could better tell me about the exhibition.  After all, it’s their story!