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 …

…culture power to unite people. To come here as a rootless person and live in a small colony under the pro tection of one's native culture and language, a man may live comfortably, but I feel that it must be a solitary existence, a light existence. But it may not be easy to go into the core of this society and even may not be a desirable thing to do for most o f us.