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It Was Probably Very Difficult To Go From Chinese And Then Suddenly Go To Kindergarten And Start Speaking English; It's Very Hard To Transition Back And Forth When You Are In That Pivotal Age. It's Also Hard To Transition Back, But If I Was Immersed In The Country For A Given Amount Of Time, You Are Surrounded By It, Everyone Is Speaking, You Are Learning New Things, You Are Practicing All The Time.

I Wish People Wouldn't Just See Me As The Asian Girl Who Beats Everyone Up, Or The Asian Girl With No Emotion. People See Julia Roberts Or Sandra Bullock In A Romantic Comedy, But Not Me. You Add Raceto It, And It Became, 'well, She's Too Asian', Or, ‘she's Too American’. I Kind Of Got Pushed Out Of Both Categories. It's A Very Strange Place To Be. You're Not Asian Enough And Then You're Not American Enough, So It Gets Really Frustrating.

You Have To Look Out For Becoming Trapped In A Place Where People Want To See You All The Time Doing One Thing.

Making A Request Without Revealing The Feeling/need Takes All The Joy Out Of Other's Service.

It's So Much Fun Playing Ling, But I Have This Fear That People Are Going To Run Away From Me In Terror On The Streets. They Think I'm Going To Bite Their Heads Off Or Something.