The greatest achievement in my life

I don’t know whether this is an achievement or not but I really feel very great after I did it. It dates back to my high school. I had a really good friend who I trust completely. We share nearly everything together, our sadness, our happiness and our dreams. We both couldn’t be happier to be each other’s best friend. Our friendship lasts about one year. I should say the best memory of my high school was in the year. However, one day we have a quarrel on something, which I can’t remember clearly now, from then we started our “cold-war” till the graduation. We both didn’t talk to each other after that, and we both enter different college. I felt so lonely in the college and regretted break our friendship so easily. On a summer night, I picked up the phone and called him. When he found that it was me, he become so exciting and of course, very surprised. We chatted for almost one hour and laughed all the time. It seems very childish now that we could have a cold-war that last so long. I think this is my great achievement because it is my effort that wins me back a lost friend.

Culture Shock

Culture shock is inevitable. I know that before I came to U.S., but when I face it I found myself completely not ready to adjust to the totally new culture environment. The biggest difficult culture change to me is the food. It is really upset me every time I went to the cafeteria. I do not mean the environment there is bad. The food there is almost unbearable to me. Cold beverage with warm beef, uncooked vegetable, rice with sugar or tomato and bread with wired butter, that's sounds insane if someone have a dinner like that. I admit that there are various foods that I can choose from, but the problem is none of the choices is please to me. I am soooooooo missing my mother's home cook dish and the hot, authentic Chinese food! So I decided to go to a Chinese restaurant to have a change. But when I order some so-called Chinese dish, I totally cannot recognize those are Chinese food if I am not sure that I am sitting in a Chinese restaurant. There is so much sugar in the dish! An American friend told me that “American Chinese food.” Oh, my god! Everything here is attached with an invisiable label writing: “Made in America.”

Wondering like a beggar!

Hiking like a man in a mysterious forest, trying new things and adventuring the unfamiliar country like a middle-age warrior, wondering like a care-free beggar with great curiosity! That is what I want to do in America besides going to school!

Sounds crazy? Not to me! The U.S. is the most powerful and advanced country in the world, that seems as a common sense nowadays. But I think that to judge whether a country is a highly civilization society or not should look on how harmony it goes on with the environment. I want to feel the crystal clear river running below my feet, to breathe the fresh air in a forest with pleasant silence, and to involve myself into the pulse of the nature.

Wondering like a beggar, I don't have to make a specific plan about my destination. Neither do I have to worry about the time is limited or not. All I have to focus is how to enjoy each and every day that I spend with the natural beauty. I may pass by numerous small villages which have friendly smiling faces; I may see some dears running through the highway sometimes; I may found an abandoned cabin deep in the forest that could welcome me for a night; I may even lie in an endless meadow looking at the twinkling stars at a cool summer night!

Leading a colorful life with great passion! That is what I want to do in America besides going to college.