When I came to the United States

by Gna Vang

My trip started when I flew from Thailand to Germany on Luftansa Airlines. German airports are a little different than American airports. We had to take a subway from one gate to another.There were 20 of us all together. None of us knew where we were or where we were going. We couldn't see anything because we were under the ground. We had never been on a subway before and we thought it was a bus. We thought that this is what the West looked like. So we cried. We were nervous. We thought the world ofthe West was only full of electric lights. No trees, no grass nothing but cement and lights. Then we left the subway. We got on a moving sidewalk. We fell down. We couldn't stand up straight. We were all on the ground until we came to the end of the sidewalk. How awful life is here we thought. Next we flew from Germany to New York. We got the plane and into the elevator.W e stood in the elevator. We thought the elevator was perhaps similar to the moving sidewalk. We waited for the elevator to move. We waited and waited for about 20-30 minutes. We didn't know what to do. Finally airport officials came to help us. Now when I remember this story I laugh.