AMERICAN DREAM
Last winter, when I went to work in Downtown L.A., I met my childhood friend on the bus. I was surprised and I couldn't believe it that my childhood friend still recognized me, since I was eleven years old in elementary school with her in Cambodia. My childhood friend's name is KIM , she told me about her story, that her family survived under the Communist Khmer Rouge. She came to the United States in 1981. She was twenty five years old. She had gone for many years without school, and told me " I still wanted my education back." When she came to the U.S.A., she studied hard, not working because she was lucky that her brother helped with the cost of living. Finally, she graduated from Cal State in L.A. She worked for the City of Los Angles in the Police Department (L.A.P.D.) in Downtown L.A. Now she was retired and she was only fifty- six years old.
I am proud of my childhood friend, that she has such a good life and is living so comfortably.