Thursday, March 6, 2008

New Country Life







Since I came to the United States, doing everything have been having stress. In my life, the big change is in Chicago. This picture's place is my new life of the beginning that I will live in. When I came here at the first time, everything was different than my hometown. I had to confront the different people, different language and different environment. To living in a new city, I need to learn a lot of things. I have tried hard to adapt myself to the new city, but everything wasn't easy. There are many vexations that make me headache frequently. I have been having study stress, work stress, home stresss. Language is a serious barrier that make me hardly to live here because I haven't known too much English. It is hard to communicate with someone, I feel I am like a mute person. Cause of the language barrier, it isn't easy to look for job. Some company will not hire a person that couldn't speak English. I am worry about this too much because I need to support myself. When I lived in Chicago at the first year, I had worked at the restaurant. It was too tired to work at the restaurant because I had to work 12 hours for a day. My boss only gave me 40 dollars for one day and he was a bad person. I couldn't stand him, but I didn't have any choice. I needed money and I wanted to stay in life. In that year, I was very busy like everyday was working that never stop. I would go to school on Monday to Thursday, and I would go to work on Friday to Sunday. I felt very tired and I didn't have enough time to sleep. Having a lot of stress that make me getting older.

1 comment:

Denise said...

That sounded like a very stressful and unpleasant situation where you were working at the restaurant. We say in English, "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger."