When I arrived in USA - Could you please correct it? Thank you! :)

There were a lot of things that I need to learn when I first moved to The United States. Those things were not easy, especially if you have to learn them in New York City. The first thing I had to learn was where I could find important places like supermarkets, drugstores, and subways. Secondly, I had to learn a little English, then I would be able to ask informations. At last, with a very hard time going on, I had to learn how to rent an apartment.
In my first month in NY, I could stay in a temporary house at midtown, Manhattan. It was
pretty frightened to see all that craziness. People always busy and running, lights, stores, car and too much noisy. At this time, I was in charge to take care of my temporary home and do all the regular chores. Simple things like to go to the market turned complex. Once, I went to a supermarket and asked to an employee where I could find shoyu, but nobody could answer it. Then, I figured that in America shoyu is called soy sauce. It was funny. At that time, I could figure also that drugstores don't sell any kind of medicines with no prescriptions. But this was a minor problem since I had brought my own medicines from my country. The biggest problem was with the subways. I got lost so many times. Sometimes I took on the right train but the wrong direction. Other times, I took the right line, but the local train instead the express train.
It was really difficult when I had to speak English at the begining. A lot of times, I wrote in a tiny notebook basic and useful sentences. I could use them in a emergency situations like when I got lost at the subway, or got confused with the streets.
Finding a place to live in NYC was a big problem as well. I did not know the neighborhoods, either its costs. For our lucky, my brazilians friends helped my husband and I to choose the best place we could. We tried to get a good place with a fair price and nearby subways stations. And we thought that it would be impossible. But it did not. We got it at the last weekend in the temporary house.
I think that all those problems was important to us, because we could improve our abilities, to get more self confidence and learn new things. You can look at your problems as they are scary as a storm, or you can look them like a big challengingchallenges that will make you a better person.

   it looks you have faced some big challenges and solved them well.  Wish you could have a happy time in NYC.