It took years for me to become a part of a new environment. When I first came to the United States, I did not know if I could ever belong here. I had to adapt this new environment, make new friends, live with new neighbors, go to a new school, learn a new language, and start a new life in San Francisco. I do not remember how many times I wanted to give up and went back to my home country because it was really tough when I did not know anything about San Francisco. Sometimes I could not understand the culture in San Francisco because it was totally different from the culture where I grew up with. According to the article “Bridging US-China Cross-Cultural Differences and Groupware Technologies” (Jin, 1998), the authors talks about when it compare
