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 …showed first 75 words of 1663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1663 total…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.