N years ago, I dragged 70 kilograms of luggage to study in the United States. Besides clothes, shoes, socks, quilt hangers and so on, there is also a rice cooker, a transformer, a bag of rice ... by the way, there is also a bag of braised pork ribs packed in vacuum. ...
God knows how I got through customs. ...
I brought rice because I was afraid that I would not be able to eat for a while when I came to this remote place. However, the school is obviously more considerate than me. When the dormitory reported, everyone gave out a bag of junk food, including instant noodles, bread and potato chips. Anyway, I'm sure I won't starve to death in a day or two ... but how can I eat instant noodles without hot water? !
As a result, my first meal in America was rice porridge made by myself with that bag of ribs. From then on, I began to study in America. . .
The dormitory is the cheapest in the whole school, with three rooms and six people. There are two people in one room, and the bed is connected to the bed. There are no curtains around, so there is no privacy compared with domestic dormitories. The price is outrageous, reaching $300. It's ridiculous to say it's cheap now. This price can't even rent a fully furnished basement in Boston. But at that time, I thought it was outrageous because it was expensive. It cost two thousand soft sister coins multiplied by seven! I studied undergraduate in China for four years and lived in the dormitory of Soft Sister Coin 1000 for one year. Is this the condition of 2000 soft girl coins a month? !
My sister in the dormitory loves drying underwear. There are all kinds of fluorescent lace thongs hanging in the living room. I enjoy them while eating ... The second favorite is drying my boyfriend. I watched her boyfriend bored in the room before going to bed, so why am I still there when I wake up? ...
In most cases, three people sleep in the room ... Later, I couldn't stand the live porn every day and applied for a dormitory change. But after that, the food is always lost inexplicably, such as uncooked rice and beans ... my roommate is also very enthusiastic to help find it. As a result, one day my roommate opened my lunch box and I caught him. Then she said with a runny nose and tears that she couldn't help but want to eat and got bulimia because she was busy studying. What's more, she swallowed all my uncooked rice and beans and then spit them out ... ……ORZ, no wonder the toilet feels oily all year round ...
When I first came to work at school, my salary was eight dollars an hour. My job is Chinese-English interpretation. I really took the cabbage money and lost my heart ... every time I go back, I feel that my brain cells are dead, and I can't think without sleeping for a while. The extra income of more than 600 a month barely makes ends meet.
Later, I was dissatisfied with the low salary and asked for a raise of ten yuan (poof, yes, I have had such a cheap time). At that time, people refused and asked, "Do you think you are worth that much?" If I were now, I would explode-you can find anyone you like and go outside to find an interpreter for at least fifty hours! If I can't work outside school, will I still be with you? But when I first came, I was too timid to speak. ...
A few years later, I finally understood-"Will I get a raise? No? Ok, then I resign. " Such confidence, but that's another story.
Because of remoteness, no car = no legs, even worse than no legs-you obviously have legs, but you are not tied to a wheelchair. There is nothing within an hour's walking distance. If you want to do something, you have to find a car. There is no personal freedom at all.
Many female students find seniors with cars as drivers as soon as they arrive (in North America, cars are the first factor to attract girls), or mix with enthusiastic churches and take them shopping, shopping and going to church every week. It's not bad not to rub their schoolmate's roommate's car, so it's a big deal to fight for a fare.
I don't want to disturb the seniors, and I don't want to get mixed up with the church. Most grocery stores drag huge suitcases to Wal-Mart by bus. At first, I didn't know the bus system in America was so bad. I thought the cars on the side of the road were coming one after another, but I didn't know it would be an hour or two before someone came, and I often didn't stop on time and watched the cars waiting for a long time drive away from my eyes. Bombing the earth is really a dream.
When I finally got to the supermarket, I had to hoard enough food for a week or two at a time. It's really not expensive to buy food in America now (except vegetables ...), but when I first came here, I couldn't help multiplying everything by 6, and then my heart ached. A tomato is ten yuan in winter, and it's one! ! So tomatoes didn't appear on my dining table that winter, and I couldn't eat my favorite scrambled eggs with tomatoes happily anymore!
When I first came to America, Mao didn't know anything, and I didn't care if it was organic (Wal-Mart couldn't buy it). I am blindly full of confidence in food safety abroad. For the sake of cheapness, eggs are the cheapest white eggs, and milk is also the cheapest for a knife and a bucket! The last things Americans eat are pig's tail, pig's hand, tube bone and vermicelli bone. Two or three dollars can buy a big bag and go back to eat soup for three days! I haven't eaten for months, and my face is covered with steamed buns, and even my beard has grown. Finally, I was so scared that I bought everything the cheapest, at least eggs and milk would be expensive. ...
What? Why bother? Why not eat in the canteen? Hehe, is the canteen for people to eat? All kinds of junk food are bright and blind! What? Do you think pizza hamburgers are delicious? Not to mention that American pizza burgers are different from what you think. Can you stand eating them every day? Americans eat sugar and salt as if they don't need money. That's a heavy smell-eating a piece of pizza will almost exceed your salt intake this day! And don't expect the pizza here to reach the level of domestic Pizza Hut. Generally, there is only cheese or a material on it, mostly pancakes with a shiny layer.
Healthy choice is not without, all kinds of salads, oh, no, all kinds of grass, one meal 10 are not enough. If it is served with all kinds of sauces special for America, hehe, 20 kg a semester is not a dream! Besides, it's too expensive to eat the canteen with my appetite. I can't get enough to buy at noon every day. Do you feel it?
I really miss the canteen with 10 soft sister coins! Therefore, it is better to bring your own food (rich second generation, forget it)!
The happiest thing, of course, is that there is free food for the lecture at noon. Although most cases are pizza, I am still interested in free garbage. Where can I go without food? Sneak in like a thief, take a piece of pizza and pretend to listen, and then find a chance to slip away ... Some helpful people have specially arranged the time and place for free meals in the whole school, which are pushed every day, which is simply the reborn parents of international students! What did that sentence say? If you want to lose more than half of the scientific research talents in American universities, you just need to poison the free pizza at noon and put down half of the doctors in the whole school!
I can't live without a car. Can you imagine life without legs?
Instead of trying to rub the car, get one yourself. Looking across my heart, I found a place to sell used cars. It was an hour's drive, and I went by train alone. Then I didn't have an American driver's license, GPS or a map, so I was going to drive back by my own sense of direction (it was still late at night, afraid of thieves) ... I was scared to death when I was stopped by the police. As a result, people say, you forgot to turn on the light. Letting me go was a false alarm.
At that time, I obviously had too much confidence in American road signs. When I got off the highway, I didn't know how to drive. The car was almost out of gas and my mobile phone was almost out of power (hehe ...)! So in the middle of the night, I drove an old car that was almost out of gas and drove on a small road in the middle of nowhere. It was dark and there was no one around, so I was even more afraid to call the police. I was still confused when driving without a license was caught!
In desperation, I called a senior with the last power of my mobile phone and said that I had lost it and wanted it. People ask: Where are you? I said: I don't know! I don't know where to go when I come down from a certain mouth People say, turn on the GPS! I said: I didn't!
I was stunned ... and then ... and then the power went out. ...
At this time, a black brother appeared on the road, and he kept walking around me. I struggled for a long time whether to get off the bus and ask for directions, but finally I didn't dare to go down ... Later, I almost desperately recalled the bus route back to school and finally found it! When you see the school card, you should burst into tears in an instant!
Life will be much better with a car. Finally, once in a while, you can drive to the Chinese cafeteria to eat a helping wall, and a meal is only 7.99 yuan. You can't buy at a loss, and you can't be fooled! Going to eat a happy paradise meal is definitely the happiest time when I first came to the United States.
If you are really depressed, you can also drive to the shopping center for shopping or something. More importantly, I have a car and can finally take others out to buy food and go shopping. Wow, haha! There is a feeling that a daughter-in-law will become a woman and her status will be improved! No, I took some classmates to join in the fun and went all night on Black Friday of Thanksgiving!
The things bought by my classmates filled my trunk. In addition to the things I brought to my friends at home, I also bought a pot (it is necessary to eat vegetables, not high-end goods, just tens of dollars), several bottles of hand sanitizer and a bottle of facial cleanser (ORZ, which has not been used up for four years). Playing for one night cost less than 100 yuan, and Taurus is very satisfied!
Later, from the countryside to the city, the quality of life has improved to a certain extent. I have lived in the little black house for 50 1 month, with furniture and a single room, and a mouse to cook with me! Consciously satisfied. At that time, my father came to America on business, and I really showed off my living environment. You see, although there is no sunshine, it is closer to the school than the dormitory! I don't even have to prepare furniture! I didn't expect dad's eyes to be red. ...
Later, in order to reassure my family, I spent 50 yuan to buy a sun room (finally counted as my wedding room). At that time, we moved to catch up with the holiday, and everyone went out on holiday. I don't want to bother others to help me with my holiday. I moved everything from the first floor to the third floor myself, including the bedstead and mattress ... when I saw the stairs, my legs went weak.
Yes, you won't be disappointed when you come to America to be an inspirational woman. This is a paradise for cultivating women. Repairing cars, buying vegetables, installing furniture, repairing toilets and killing rats must be standard.
When I first came to the city, I couldn't live in my own dark room, so I stayed on the floor with my friends for half a month.
One day I went out and saw a big coffee table and a small shoe cabinet on the side of the road. I was excited! Such a good thing is not available at home! So my friend took the shoe cabinet, and I put the coffee table on my head, so I pushed it back to my residence (my waist was almost broken). Put it away and clean it up. Although it's not my home, it's very fulfilling! Then I picked up the furniture model in full swing. Seeing good goods on the roadside, I immediately squatted down and held them. I called my friend: Come on, there are good things on the road!
Later, when I moved to my own house and needed furniture, I began to choose all kinds of furniture for my family. Over time, I also chose a full set, resulting in very little furniture at home now. Sometimes it's a pity to see good goods that can't be put down at home.
Shortly after the baby was born, she finally moved to two rooms and one living room, and she didn't have to queue up for the toilet every morning. However, the new apartment is in a place with poor public security reputation (close to the school, cheap), just opposite the low-rent housing where Brother Hei and Lao Mo both live.
Once when I came back from the library at the weekend, I found a burglary. I lost a mobile phone and a camera. Maybe people think the trophy is not enough, so they gave me an apple ... I'm just glad I brought my computer, otherwise there are so many homework materials, I really want to jump off a building!
Calling the police, the note said: We are so busy today that we have to wait five or six hours to deal with it! So I waited until the evening, when two policemen came and took some photos, and then it was gone. That's right. I'm fine, the loss is not big, and people don't care.
Besides that, I lose my bike at both ends every three days. After losing four bicycles, I completely gave up the idea of cycling. When the last car was lost, it was photographed by the neighbor's surveillance. The black brother of the low-rent house across the street calmly walked into the yard door in the middle of the night, went around the balcony of my backyard and whistled to move the car away from the carport. I thought, who is this? You can always find the police to arrest people, right? Can you at least get my car back? Hehe, it's a pity that I'm naive again ......
Although I lose things every three days, as a female paper in China, I can't feel the cold from a dead mouse. Anyway, there is nothing to lose, and I will never buy it again. But one day when I went out, I found police stations all over the street. Tell me, girl, don't turn left. When I asked, oh, my God, two people died at once in the shooting, just 5 meters in front of my house!
Although I have always known that the law and order in the United States is not so good, I am not flustered when I receive the notice of the incident from the school. I feel as long as I don't go out at night. But this time it was a real murder at home in broad daylight! Money is a thing apart, and life is the most important thing! So I felt that I couldn't live any longer, so I quickly moved with my baby.
As for other safety issues, I can't finish vomiting for days. I believe everyone has seen more news. I have a friend who was stabbed into a vegetative state by two small ink bottles in broad daylight in Los Angeles for more than a year, and I haven't seen the compensation from the United States ... In short, going out safely is the first, and everything else is just a cloud!
Some people say that things in America are not very cheap. Why is it expensive?
Hehe, luxury goods and the like are really much cheaper than in China. But no matter how cheap it is, it is also a luxury. Actually, 5000 and 10000 make no difference to me. Anyway, I won't buy it.
After all, can luxury goods be eaten as food? Can I pay the tuition? Can I use it to see a doctor? Look at the usual kindergarten tuition, all kinds of education expenses, and the most exaggerated medical expenses, and cooperate with the tax bill that makes you want to cry when you get paid ... Hehe, every item is a thousand words!
In addition, many things are not about money, but you can't enjoy it no matter how rich you are! Can I eat a roadside stall if I am greedy in the middle of the night? First, you didn't open the door so late. Second, do you dare to go out so late? !
At 2 o'clock in the morning, the room was full of old American furniture, missing hot and sour powder, thinking of a stomachache, but I couldn't eat it, you know? !
You may ask:
Then why did you go abroad so hard to find punishment? Like plain, don't like plain, stay where you are comfortable!
That's right. I was just looking for it.
Just to see a different world outside; Just try what kind of job you can find without access, background, discrimination and visa pressure; Try how to drag two babies and be a working mother with limited help; Try all the potential and unknowns in life. ...
Not afraid of suffering, not afraid of suffering, just afraid-I can't find my own way!
At home, you may envy overseas parties for better air and food safety, but we also envy domestic convenience and passion.
There is no easy mode in life. Studying in America is also a life experience.