I finally came to this land. The various misfortunes in my life gave me a

chance of being sent to America by my university only when I was about to

be 40 years old. Thinking th at I would take the chance to root myself

here, I went through a hasty experience of taking the GRE and TOEFL tests,

sending my credentials everywhere and trying to get information from

everywhere. For the past ten months I have been sitting in front of m y

computer day in and day out to read school pages on the Internet and look

for employment news. When I finally summoned up enough money to get several

I-20 forms, my enthusiasm for going to university plummeted suddenly and

what I have been thinking sinc e then is to buy an air ticket to go home.

To comfort myself I thought of a principle by which I have been doing

things these days: Just fight and fumble in America to get whatever I can,

with my great motherland backing me up. The worst of it is to go back to go

on being a professor and moonli ghter and in any case, I will still be

among the para-middle-class. As to the money I spend here, well, just treat

If what we seek is only this contented life in America, it is better we go

So the Chinese in America, when celebrating their own festival, do not feel

fight in America, they will remain poor if they lose it, and they will get

feel like being in a strange land because I am benefited by the well

time caring about literature, though I really want to, because I am busy

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