Before that, I had spent the previous three years studying at the University of Maryland in the United States. While I was in Maryland, the rest of the family stayed in Taiwan. Irine was in her first year of junior high school at the time. I wrote letters home often, and every Christmas and summer vacation either I would go back to Taiwan or they would go to the States.
我是在一九九二年移民紐西蘭的，在此前三年，我在美國馬里蘭州立大學讀書，那時全家妻小還在台灣，彭巧之當時正上國一，我常常寫信回家，寒暑假回台或他們去美國遊玩時，也常利用機會想灌輸他們一些正確的人生觀念。