What adapting to the United States did to me
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To anyone, foreign country means unknown wonderland. Everybody might think that there will be something exotic and exciting. However, visiting wonderland give a lot of people a little bit of fear. Because of different language, culture, food and so forth, people have hard time adapting to that wonderland. In the process of adapting, one of unavoidable things is an honest mistake called episode. Due to differences between our own culture and native culture of a country we are visiting, many mistakes occur. Some could be serious, but most of them are usually hilarious. My case also wasn't an exception.
In 1998, after countless debates and arguments with my parents, I had finally succeeded in convincing them to allow me to study in the United States. Throughout my entire life, it was the first chance to step on an international airplane...