Confused In America
I had been dreaming of going to America for God knows how many years before
I finally came to this land. The various misfortunes in my life gave me a
chance of being sent to America by my university only when I was about to
be 40 years old. Thinking th at I would take the chance to root myself
here, I went through a hasty experience of taking the GRE and TOEFL tests,
sending my credentials everywhere and trying to get information from
everywhere. For the past ten months I have been sitting in front of m y
computer day in and day out to read school pages on the Internet and look
for employment news. When I finally summoned up enough money to get several
I-20 forms, my ...
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it as the money I lose in Las Vegas.
But still I am no big gambler. When I talk about going abroad before I went
abroad, we talked it in such a way that it seemed we would rather do
anything to stay abroad. Even the jails in America are better than the
shabby house of my home in a big yar d in Beijing. If I was a big gambler,
I would just stay undocumented and underground. Although I am 40, when I do
the pull-ups, I can still reach the standard of passing the test in
physical education class in my university. The sanitation in America is s o
good that I have never fallen ill since I came. What cannot I do with such
a strong body! And more, compared with those illegal immigrants smuggled
in, my fluent English can at least help me a lot.
In another sense, however, I am no better than those illegal immigrants,
for they are poor people who will lose nothing but their poverty. When they
fight in America, they will remain poor if they lose ...
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invest. but most are staying like this. Some of them may be rich enough to
go back every three or five years to meet old acquaintances, eat some
genuine Chinese meals and bring home some duty-free commodities to families
and relatives so that they can hear them talking: Vow, the third son of Old
Li's house is really somebody now!" In this way, they cancel from their
heart all the bitterness and loneliness that they have experienced when
struggling in a foreign land.
So is this the way of American living that I had been hoping to see? Last
Christmas, I went to stay with an old friend and had some experience of an
American festival in a Chinese way. My ...
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