Four years ago today (Nov. 9, 2003), I hopped onto a plane, flew across the ginormous Pacific Ocean, landed on Newark Airport thirteen hours later, and there was a guy from the immigration office in the airport told me, "Welcome to America."

this is how I look like back then. photo take on 12/3/2003

Can't really believe that it's been four years, it seems as it were yesterday that I was leaving my house back in Taishan, China, but reality tells otherwise.

When I first came to the United States, I barely speak English:

"Hi, my name is Haochi."

Well, I hardly speak English now:

"Guten Tag, ich heiße Haochi."

Many other things changed as time flies by though:

• I started wearing eye-glasses in 9th grade
• Got my chipped-tooth fixed
• My voice changed, along with other developments a boy would go through during puberty
• Smarter in some aspects and dumber in others
• And so on ...

I truly missed a lot of things during the last four years. Not only those in China, but many things here as well.

Comments

Happy BirthLandingDay :)

TOMHTML - 11.10.07 #

Thanks Tom. :)

Haochi - 11.10.07 #

Are you taking German classes or something? :)

Philipp Lenssen - 11.15.07 #

Yeah, I started taking German for my foreign language subject since middle school. :)

Haochi - 11.15.07 #