Like I said in the previous blog, family members are suppose to gather up during our new year festival. However, everything has changed here, in the United States.
If you win something, you must lose something, just like a coin always has two sides. Here I'm experiencing and learning something that would influence me in a positive way lifelong time, but on the other hand, the time I spend with my family and my friends back in China are reduced. This year is my fifth year studying in the United States. The lunar New Year is around February, it's during the middle of the semester here so I have not celebrated the Chinese New Year with my family for five years. To spend the New Year by myself seems no problem at first because I have spent 15 times with my family before, actually it was kind of special experience for me at 16. However, things started to change, and I think that is the common issue for those students who study abroad, we feel lonely sometimes, like extremely lonely...
Instead of spending time with family, here most of Chinese students would gather up and have dinner, or I would say a party together, just like families to each other. We would watch the Spring Festival gala online because there is no CCTV in the channel lists here, and this is what we usually do back in China, watching the show for over four hours.
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