Vacation Experience
During the Christmas break, I went back to China and spent lots time with my relatives and friends. Although I had not interacted with them face to face for four months already, I could feel that the link between us became stronger. However, after I had lunch with my friends from Chinese middle school, I got a strong sense of alienation which made me feel kind of sad. I had lunch with them at September 31th. Originally, we planned to have dinner together, but because one of my best friends had a schedule conflict, we decided to have lunch instead. At that day, we gathered at a metro station and went to the Japanese restaurant where we would have lunch. On the way, everyone except me and one of my friends who went to Australia for high school was talking about their Chinese high school lives, and I could hardly ever participate in their conversation: when I tried to participate and tell them about my life in an American high school, they were usually indifferent about what I said. ...