Dreams, Diligence, and Difficulties
I believe all people immigrating to the USA are for their dreams. Maria, who was the protagonist of “English as a Second Language". Maybe just came to the USA by chance. According to the story, she left her homeland because of a war. She lost her husband and two sons during the war. She suffered rough journey and fled from her country. After she arrived the USA, she got a job at a luxury hotel and she went to school learning her homeland language and English. I do not know which is at first: did she got a job then went to school? Or she went to school then got a job? But anyway, those two things formed her : fighting for a better life. She watched the TV show called “the big mouth game show”. Although she disliked the host kissing ad hugging a woman a lot, which is completely different from her original culture, she still dreamed that she could get a chance for this game because if she won she could get rewards of this game. That was plenty of money, which could make her life better. She went to school for improving herself. She worked hard for her studying. With her spiriting, her children also did very well in school. Her old daughter even got a scholarship from law school. She also got a literacy award for her studying.she went to the ceremony, getting a chance to make a speech. During her speech time, she was confused and uncomfortable with the environment, but she had to handle it. I think it is so common that every immigrant has to face it: the difference between two cultures. Living in a new culture and getting comfortable are not easy. Sometimes it is a kind of dilemma. The difficulties are more than our imaging.
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I heard some sad stories from my immigrant friends. One of my friends suffered depressive disorder after she immigrated to the USA. She could not go to sleep all the time. In my experience, I feel sometimes so helpless. In my country, I have a master degree. My majors are law and MBA. Those two degrees are good at the language of my country. But now, it is different. English is not MY language. Sometimes I just like an idiot. My strength has become my weakness. And I have to fix it from basic. The pronunciation is most difficult. When I was in my country, I learned some English. But it was almost thirty years ago, and I had never been using it until I came to the USA. How could I speak in English with people when I settled here? For reading, I could check a dictionary, but for listening and speaking, I couldn’t. I still remember the first time I went to ESL 60 ,which was learned from Jeff. I could not understand what was the teacher saying and I also could not understand my classmates neither. I cried during the class. Since then, I have been working hard at my studying. I have improved myself a lot. But for every step, from different angle, the difficulties are still here. They could hurt you suddenly. Life is never easy. Even if a native speaker. Especially for our immigrants.
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