When I was in Cambodia, I had many friends who brought a lot of things to my life.  In the beginning of the school year, somehow I had to change my school to the other one and it was not a problem because most of my friends were moving too.  I was also a person who loved to make new friends and keep relationships with the old ones.  Like me, Richard Rodriquez moved from his permanent place to another.  Even though it was totally different for him but still, he tried hard to put himself in different kings of situations until he made new friends and a lot of teachers that knew him.  It just like what I have done in my new school.

    One day when everyone was sleeping, it was about 1 o’clock or 2 o’clock pass midnight.  Boom! It was a bomb dropped in front of my house.  There were three militaries got injured while they were doing their job.  My family and our neighbors were running and crabbing their kids really quicky into the safety place that have brick and rocks.

    Khmer Rouge (enemies) bombing and firing toward the military, which made lots of people got injured.  During this time, I slept in the house while everyone ran to the underground.  Then they found out that they missed me, my mom ran quickly to get me even though the fighting still going on.  I felt embarrass about the blamed that she putted on me in front of everyone.  Then I found myself as a bad person.  I should have been more flexible on this kind of thing so I would not be so embarrass and regret.  Along with it I also learned to be nicer to people around me.  The war made me understand the good relationship between one another is what we should have done in our life.  It has also brought me to become a person that loved and cared about people, country, and the condition around me.

    My aunts treated me so nice; they spoiled me too much.  They found out that they had to leave Cambodia for America, which sponsored by my uncle who lived in America for also 20 years.  My aunts decided to come because they have not their brother for a very long time.  I king of understood their feeling.  I let them came to United States, even though I didn’t want them to get away from me.  I thought that what if I lived away from my brother or sister for that long, I would have done the same thing as them.  I felt terrible about these.  I hope in the future the one that I loved and me won’t leave each other. These were such of grateful experiences that I been through, it taught me a lot.  It showed that I should be more useful person by have a good reason to myself, aunts’ leave because for their brother.