Blog 4

After reading Liu’s story, I felt depressed about his experience. I can understand his hesitation and the dilemma he faced. Before coming to the United States, I made the same decision, like Liu, that I must try my best to speak English with the native speakers around me, because one of the main reason that I chose to be away from my hometown is improving my English. I heard a large number of stories that it was not an easy thing for a foreigner to get involved in a completely different culture. Definitely, the language is the biggest gap.
Liu finally decided to live with Chinese, although that was not he wanted to do at the beginning. The same as me, I made more Chinese friends than Americans in this one month. Rarely do us have the courage to get fully involved in American’s conversation. Although I achieved excellent scores and enjoyed my campus life, I still got unsatisfied with my communication with others, even my roommate. The things I discussed with my roommate are all about daily lectures, exams or sports, but not the parties. What’s more, I have supper everyday with my Chinese friend and go out with them. The life with them accounts for the biggest part these days, which I decided to change step by step in the following time.

Three New Words
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Humble: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride ofPreeminent: greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement