A busy day is coming

Taking 23 units is tough for me. Gonna leave home at 7:30 am tomorrow and spend 11 hours at school, damn hard! I don’t why I am taking so many classes this semester. Maybe I just wanna show my friends that I’m super man??? Or I want to challenge myself? ...

5 minutes.... I know why... Let me tell you a story about my uncle....

His name is Loc. He came to America in 1991 I think. At that time, not many Vietnamese living in California, so Vietnamese didn’t get much help like we do now. His family (him, his parents and his 5 siblings) couldn’t get enough money for renting a house. Therefore, all of them had to live in my other grand uncle’s house. Can you image 8 adults had to live in a 80 square feet room? Uncle Loc had to sleep on sofa. Luckily he was? No, he could only sit and sleep, he couldn’t lay down because he is afraid of not able to get up the next morning. During the first 2 years, he had to work full time (50-70 hours/week) to support his family and he went to college also. He told me that he used to take up to 23-24 units a semester. Crazy studying and working machine then. At that time he was about 28-30. What do you think about that? Working hard and study crazy but he was the one who had the second highest GPA when he graduate from Cal Poly Pomona. He is an engineer now, building software for the cellphone...

Now you know why I’m taking 23 units this semester. I always think that I can do whatever other people can. Even if I can’t succeed like they do, but at least I give myself a chance to try, a gold to reach....

Have a nice day. Shitsureeshimasu (taking the Elementary Japanese this semester, fun though)