There are many difficulties of studying in America. This is why a distressed tone is undergoing Liu’s article, especially when he decided to move out an American family and live with Chinese. He was at lost and depressed. His decision of moving out is understandable because of facing a culture shock and lacking rich vocabulary to express his emotional feelings. Staying with people who use the same language would be a way to alleviate the feelings of loneness and home-sickness to some extent. Even when the people he stayed with were strangers towards him, he would feel warm and safe, because, they are using same language, thinking in a same way, and belongs to a same culture.
Based on my experience of three weeks staying in America, I have somewhat similar feelings to Liu, although the situation is better than him. Every time a conversation that people speak in English would become an English listening test for me, I need to try my best to focus those sentences, but I can still only understand fifty or sixty percent of their meanings, which make me feel like having surdomutism. Moreover, things would become worse if those words were given by my professors on a lecture. For example, my American classmates consider my chemistry teacher is the great person, not only explaining the chemistry world but also sharing personal story to inspire them. However, when my classmates are laughing, I usually don’t understand why they are laughing, because I think the story is not sort of funny. Even one of Chinese students in that class sent him an E-mail to him, indicating his voice is not loud enough to hear clearly which I totally agree with him. But professor replied this email, saying this is the first time that student said his voice is not resounding.
Overall, life, indeed, would not be easy for a person to study in a place where he or she has never been before, and difficulties are so common. Nevertheless, from my point of view, those difficulties itself are part of things we need to study, to overcome. Culture shock, actually, is an acceleration to make us grow up, and become more mature.
Part 2
sarcasm
a way of speaking or writing that involves saying the opposite of what you really mean in order to make an unkind joke or to show that you are annoyed
whatsoever
used to emphasize a negative statement=whatever
saturate
to put a lot of something into a particular place, especially so taht you could not add any more
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