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The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 07, 2010 Remarks by the President and the First Lady in Town Hall with Students in Mumbai, India St. Xavier College Mumbai, India 11:45 A.M. IST MRS. OBAMA: Hello, everyone. Namaste. It is a pleasure and an honor to be here in India. Everyone, please sit, who can sit. Rest. It?ˉs warm. We are thrilled to be here and to have a chance to spend time with so many outstanding young people from St. Xavier?ˉs College and so many other schools across Mumbai. Now, this is my first trip to India, but it is not my first exposure to India?ˉs wonderful culture and people. See, I grew up in Chicago, which is a city with one of the largest Indian-American communities in our country. And of course, last year, as you know, we were proud to host Prime Minister Singh and Mrs. Kaur for our very first state visit and dinner. It was a beautiful evening under a tent on the South Lawn of the White House, and we got to hear some pretty great Bhangra as well. I danced there, too. (Laughter.) So I have really been looking forward to this trip for a very long time. The time that we spend with young people during our travel is very special to both me and to the President. When I was your age, I never dreamed of traveling to countries like this and meeting with young people like all of you. In fact, there were a lot of things that I had never imagined for myself growing up, including having the honor of serving as my county?ˉs First Lady. My family didn?ˉt have a lot of money. My parents never went to college. I grew up in a little bitty apartment in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. My parents worked hard to pay the bills and to keep a roof over our heads. But even though my parents couldnt give us material things, they gave us something much more precious -- they gave me and my brother strong values. They taught us to treat others with dignity and r