Up till today, I have been in the US for a whole year, officially.
It's amazing to think about how times flies by, I still remember that Robert and me had a last dinner with my dad two nights before we flue out, and we stayed in HK the night before....I remember we landed in LAX and went through the customs very easily...Robert took me to the new place he stayed, which was Larry's house, and we are no longer staying there....
Everything was so so new to me when I just came here, even though I had my first visit last April, but to move forward to live in a different country for a long long time is completely a different picture for me. I was scared, I felt insecure, I was afraid of talking to people in English, I couldn't eat the food, I didn't have any friend, I was even afraid of failing in everything here, concisely, I had so many many fears, which was fair, I think. Life is consisted of relatives and friends, I had Robert back then, he was and will be the only real relative to me in the US, so life told me that I need to have friends first before I could do anything, so we went to Chinese bible church, which made me feel at home, and I was so lucky that I made some friends from there...The most brutal thing that happened to me when I just came here was that Robert needed to travel out a lot in Sep and Oct, he actually had his first business trip after I got here only ten days, I was very scared, I didn't know anybody, I didn't drive, I couldn't go anywhere even for some food, I had to store so much food before he left...life pushed us hard, so we made some choices, the very first time I asked help from Wen, a very nice lady I know from the church, I stayed at her place for two nights, and stayed the other two at my own place. He had five business trips in two months, the hardest thing for me ever, because I've never used to stay alone even when I was in China. I remember we tried the city bus since I didn't drive, sometimes I couldn't stand stay in the some house for four or five days and never walk out....I took the city bus to Russ and Kouls shopping for one afternoon...
And I had my first Holloween, the first Thanksgiving, the first Christmas, the first Easter, the first Fourth of July...I had so many great trips....I got my driver's licence, life changed so big when I started to drive.
It seems all the reminisces were so far away already, but it's really only a year, but it's been a year for me in the US, I can't believe it.
We landed in LA 6:30pm on the 14th of Sep, we had dinner at Chili's...
Time and Tide wait for nobody, how true do you think it should be?
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