As Liu mentioned in his article, he was a mature adult, so college students were too young for him to talk with. Moreover, according to his description, professors were either arrogant or rude; thus, he was also not interested in communicating with them. In addition, because of his confined English skill, he felt more comfortable when he was talking with other Chinese. I thought another reason why he needed to be with Chinese was of less or more his personality. His mind and action was kind of childish because he just kept complaining about his suck life in America without a positive emotion. In a word, he was a weak man (no offence).
Remembering the first day I came to UD, I met my first roommate, a Japanese girl, who is such a nice and nice girl. Even though she was an exchange student who has just stayed in America for four months, we became best friend and still keep in touch until now. I also met many international students and native speakers who are really friendly to me and taught me a lot. However, I have also encountered some awkward experiences. One day, when I was walking on the street, a car drove by and somebody just yelled at me, something like: F***!! Go back to China!! That moment extremely pissed me off.
In my opinion, we always feel lonely when we study or live abroad because we are far away from our country, far away from our hometown, far away from everything that once we were familiar with. Therefore, even if we meet strangers who come from the same country, the feeling of nostalgia will narrow the distance between each other.
1. Animated: (adj.) full of interest and energy;
2. Preeminent: (adj.) more important or better than others;
3. Complacent: (adj.) feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder.
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