I was born in Vietnam, a small country beneath China. I live my whole life in Hochiminh city; and in my 18 years of living, I hardly travelled out of the city with anyone else but my family.
Hochiminh was populated with nearly 9 million people flooded in a metropolitan city of only 809.12 square miles. The traffic is terrible. The air is polluted. And I had always dream of leaving it. Why am I using a past perfect tense instead of a present perfect? Because now that I am far away from Vietnam that I start longing for it. Not very often, but sometimes when I get into troubles for the influence speaking, I miss Vietnam and how easy life was back then.
However, I didn’t regret migrating to the U.S. “Nu?c M? mo?i la tuong lai cho m?y d?a”, my Mom said that all the times during the 13-year-period waiting for the immigration papers to come. It meant that the America would be better for her children. My parents are businessmen: they have a store of their own and live a very relaxing and somewhat luxury life, comparing to most other families only being able to make the ends meet. But the most important thing is that they don’t need to go to the U.S, no matter if it is 13 years…
And education is the most basic path I know to fulfill my goal. I am merely indifferent in most of the things in life but because of my beloved parents and also myself, I need to go to a post-secondary institution. I need to take higher education if I want to be a pharmacist or work in the field of biological sciences that I am interested in later in life. And I have the belief that I can do it and do it well because when you have a real goal set, no matter what it is, you will success. Even if I failed, I would not give up because if I give up too soon, I will miss what is waiting for me at the end of the trail. Like someone has said: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the…
