For me this aina is not really place where I want to come. I came here cause of my family is here. The weather here makes me feel uncomfortable because it changes very abnormal and continuous. Especially, driving and parking are the problem I feel sad at here, that is the reason why I rarely leave my house. Even though the food of this aina is varied but I still feel not really happy. However, something at here make me feel like the second home. No one doesn’t know that after each intense rain is a beautiful sky with the rays of the sun shining and beside it is a rainbow. There is one thing that I can not deny is the aina’s beach is one of the most beautiful beach I have never seen until I came here. Maybe the connection between me and this aina is nature. Someday I will be really tired, and I don’t want to do anything, that I will go to the beach. The beach where I can see spectacle when sunset falls. At that time, the next wonderful spectacle will be appeared, The night sky with sparkling stars filling the sky makes me feel more relaxed than ever. So for me, maybe the connection with aina is family and nature here, definitely that is great things that will lead me feel familiar than gradually. And how about you, what is the connection between you and the place you are?

The memorable moment that I never forget that is the moment my neighbors friends sat together to ring in the new year ( the lunar new year, in 2010). Two day before the lunar new year, that was the beautiful day, everyone was eager to clean up the house and go to grocery store to buy food. While everyone was preparing the traditional food for the lunar new year, I was still sleeping, but the scent flew everywhere, I could not imagine that the scent made me immediately went out of bed. After that I went brush my teeth and took a shower. Generally, I would wake up late, but today was exception. I went to my friend’s house to play. However when I came there, my friend had a fever so I could only talk to him a little, and then I left. This was the first time  I recognized my futility when I could not do anything for my friend. And then, I came back home and help my mom. Soon after, my cousin told me to come my parent’s house to took care of them and waited for my aunt or uncle came back. At that night, I stayed to eat dinner with my grand parent and my uncle’s family ( in fact, I did not want to walk back home, so I waited my mom to take me home). The last day of the year, today I woke up early and I immediately visited my friend’s house, and I knew that my friend was transferred to the hospital yesterday  because his condition has deteriorated. After a while, I was back home and begged my mother to take me to the hospital, but my mom told: “ that is impossible to let you come to the hospital, you may also have fever if you contact him.” But luckily, my mom finally agreed that I could visit him but just a moment. When I came there, I met my friend and told him that: “Everything is ok bro, try hard to recover and go back home.” Soon after, it was suddenly raining hard, I said goodbye to him and turn back home. In the afternoon, it was still raining hard. Maybe this year, I could not sat with my neighbors friends to watch the fireworks. In the evening, it suddenly stop raining, and they announced that they would still have fireworks. At that night, everyone in the neighborhood gathered to watch fireworks. At few moments later, my friend and his family came in everyone’s surprise. And then, my friends told that his health was better and doctor accepted that they could take care of my friends at home. I was very happy that my friend would spend time in the hospital to ring in the new year. In the middle of that year, my neighbors friends moved to the city person by person. So for me, that is always the memorable moment in my childhood I will never forget, and how about you what is a memorable moment in your childhood ?

The new way I had to meet was hawaii, a place known as heaven of the human world, when I came here, I did not tell anyone except my family. And especially, it took nearly three months for my friends to know that I had immigrated to the United States. I once said I would never feel homesick but then it came. I missed my family, every night I went to my uncle’s house to eat and sometimes had some beer (I felt pretty normal and I was sixteen years old at that time). Sometimes exercise walks every night. When I was sad, I often rode a motorbike around town and sat somewhere to watch the sky at night or sat in my uncle’s cafe to listen to music and ready to help him when the cafe was crowded . In Hawaii, I have just stayed indoors and rarely gone out unless my family wants to go somewhere, I don’t have too many friends here and even when I’m in Vietnam, I am hardly too concerned about it. It’s because I’m always alone. The difficult thing about me when I was in Hawaii was that going to eat has had to move to quite a distance and sometimes traffic and I was quite tired of that. In Vietnam, I just rode a motorbike to a small restaurant and buy food to take home, from my house to there it only took a few minutes to ride a motorbike so it’s great because I won’t be afraid of hunger. In Hawaii, they still have canned food and fast food but maybe I can’t eat them much. There is a special thing about myself that I now know is that I am a person living happily outside but inside is the sorrow surrounding. But for me life is an adventure so fatigue sometimes takes me down. but I have no free time to care about that, so being strong and getting rid of sadness and tiredness is the best thing I can do to forget homesickness.

My name is Liem, however somebody called me Li-em, I’m nineteen years old but my face is kind of older than my age. Sometime when I go the market in Vietnam, the seller called me like brother or uncle, I feel so bad at that. In my family, there are four people my mom, my dad and my younger sister. Somebody is going to be surprised about my dad and mom age. My dad is sixty three years old and he is a sailor, and my mom is fifty one years old and she own a shop about clothing. about my sister, she is seventeen years old, she is a good student, she always study hard and she is a good cook, at now she is working at McDonald’s, her goal is earning more money and enjoy her life. About me, I’m really lazy at study that I started study badly when I was in primary school and it’s not different now. My hobbies are playing game, enjoying food, watching anime, and I especially like traveling because I want to come the new country, behold what are they doing and what is happening every day on there. I don’t like driving car but I should know that because I must go work and take my family to go somewhere. Presently I’m studying at Honolulu Community College and my major is English. Until now I still have no girlfriend yet.

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— Oscar Wilde.

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