My father once worked for a big company. However, when I was one year old he1 his job and then our family got into a difficult situation. We were2 , so we sold our house. Then we had to live with my grandmother, 3 she didn't like kids at all. She never4 . But I was very happy with my parents. My father was5 at making things. I was also6 and had a talent for designing.
We didn't have money to buy7 so we made our own. I put two tyres together to make a horse. I learned a lot about gravity(重力) because I8 many times.
By 10, I knew I wanted to become a(n)9 , but they didn't take women in engineering school, so I went to another school and10 in 1945. Then I was very11 to be accepted by the army's training programme. I learned a lot there. In 1966, I12 serving the army. I began to work with children with learning problems. I wanted to13 something that would help them. Luckily, I 14 .
I tried to retire five times but it15 worked. In 1997, I went back to school to learn drawing, which was16 for my inventions. On a TV programme in 2015, I17 David Kelley, the founder of the design firm IDEO. When I realized he18 people from different backgrounds, I thought, "I have special life experiences and designing skills. I could be of 19 to his firm. "
I typed a letter to Kelley and quickly, I got a20 that I was accepted. I was 85.
