- Yeah, I had a little stroke.
- Was it scary?
- Oh yeah.
- I'm happy that you're healthy again.
- Me too.
(upbeat music)
- Hello, my name's Paige and this
is Grandma Lua, Great-grandma.
- Hello.
- I'm Caroline.
- I'm Lucy.
- [Both] This is our great-grandpa Reed.
- Hey.
- I love my great-grandma.
- Oh, I'm so glad you do.
- I think he's 50.
- I think he's 90.
- Ninety!
- What's the answer?
- 89.
- So, I'm 10 and she's 88
so like 78 years.
- I think you're right.
- Are you girls hungry, huh?
- [Both] Yeah.
- Oh then, me too.
- I have food for you.
It's Tongan food.
- During the war we didn't have a whole lot of meat.
And we only had it a couple times a week.
And so when Spam came along, it was in a can,
and you could put it on the shelf until you opened it
and then you put it in your ice box or whatever.
- What is this?
- Sauerkrout and sausage.
- It looks gross.
- It looks good.
- It's sweet.
- Good!
- It's fake meat, right?
- It's a substitute, you know I never really
knew everything they put in it,
but I suspect they put a lot more in it
that you would in a piece of real meat.
- That's a traditional Polish dish.
- What does Polish mean?
- It's a nationality, it's where you came from.
- Hey, I'm Paige's mom, so basically
I'm here for my grandma to translate.
- Did you eat this when you were a little girl?
- I eat it, a little girl, just like you.
- See, she ate it when she was a little girl, just like you.
- These guys are slippery, there, there we go.
- Oh, that thing's crisp.
- So you see it's getting brown, all right?
(laughs)
- What's up with your fork?
- That's a support, yeah I had a little stroke.
You can't move your arms sometimes.
- Was it scary?
- Oh yeah!
- Was it like scary growing up through the war?
- Yes, because we didn't know whether we were
gonna have planes come over and our schoolyards
they had soldiers up on the roofs
and around the schoolyards.
So it was kinda like we had to
think about it all the time.
- So you always had to be careful?
- That's right.
- What was your favorite color?
- I like purple.
- Purple!
- Okay, you wanna try that?
- Yup.
It taste good.
- Did you have friends around your house?
- Yeah lots of friends, yeah they'd all come by and we'd go
fishing sometimes right down at the bottom of the hill.
- Do you know any friends, who were like
your neighbors who are still alive?
- I have a friend that we've been friends for 70 years.
- That's cool! Thank you grandma for being you.
- I enjoyed it.
- [Narrator] Did you learn anything, Jaylin?
- I learned that even though it was tough times
and you guys were scared of something, the war,
you guys got through it and you guys weren't
mad that you didn't have that many
options of food, and you made life fine.
- Yes we did.
- Thank you Grandma Lua.
- You're welcome.
- Thank you for watching.
- Ah, you're welcome.