*The first picture is my last summer in China.( I miss them!)
People in the second one are my new friends in my first school in U.S..
The third one is the first snow in my life!
I came here one year ago. It was winter.After one week passed, I saw the first snow in my life!I was so excited and made a big smile-snow-face. Then I stared this car and kept a long silent, I realized that it’s a different environment, a different world and would be a different life. ” Are you ready to embrace your new life?”
However, the truth is, life is tough at the beginning. Maybe it is because the winter here is too cold and too long, and it even makes me afraid of snowing. I began to miss my city where I have friends who I grew up with, I have my families who I can trust mostly and I have lots of foods that I am familiar with. I have home there, but I just have a house here.
Then, lucky for me, I found a school and met new friends there. It’s easier to go forward without loneliness. I gradually got used to my new life——hang out with new friends, try to do different kinds of jobs to expand my horizon and plan several trips to embrace nature and diverse cultures. Those 8 months went past in the blink of an eye, I realized that I have to plan my future——college is clearly the first step to go. So I spent two months from memorizing new vocabularies to finishing SAT, and luckily I cam to Baruch!( I thought that was the busiest time within 20 years, but now I admit the first semester is the winner! ⊙﹏⊙)
It is not easy for some international students to handle their complicated situations. They need to balance integrating new environment and keeping touch with old life. Sometimes they will have a sense of distance from their old friends and feel tired to adapt themselves to the new life. Nonetheless, they keep their passions to challenge and achieve their dreams, no matter how this feeling of not belonging will make them depressed.
Because most of them are dreamers!