I had been dreaming of going to America for God knows how many years before I finally came to this land. The various misfortunes in my life gave me a chance of being sent to America by my university only when I was about to be 40 years old. Thinking th at I would take the chance to root myself here, I went through a hasty experience of taking the GRE and TOEFL tests, sending my credentials everywhere and trying to get information from everywhere. For the past ten months I have been sitting in front of m y computer day in and day out t ....