COMING TO THE U.S.A.

By APIWAT SOSAENCHAI

I came to the United States by airplane. I felt lonely. The trip took twenty hours. I had a dream about the United States. That the United States had everything and I came here. It was difficult for me. I couldn't speak English well. Before I thought that in the United States there were many robbers.

The first time I came to the United States I was afriad that the airplane would crash. I couldn't order some juice I couldn't speak English. I felt good when I got the U.S.A. but sometime I didn't fell good because I was homesick for my parents. I saw different people and different traffic. I liked the weather. It was cold. I couldn't sleep very well because it was different time. I want to visit the beach in United States.

I went Fresno to visit my friends. When I came back to Visalia at night. My car died on the freeway. That time It was dark. The first time white people wanted to help me. But my friend his name was Suthat confussed him. After that I walked and ran beside the freeway looking for tetephone to call somebody in my temple. At that moment, a black person stopped his car in front of me. I thought that , he should to help me but he wanted to sell somedrugs. I was scaried of him .I didn't understand , what he said ? I ran very fast. The seconed white people took me to my temple.

Now, I have changed my ideas about robbers in United States. Every race has some bad men and some good. This is what I believe. Right now I feel lonely and I want to go back to Thailand.

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