that was th first tim for m to com to amrica. th trip was much mor xciting than i had xpctd. as plannd, i got my plan tickt and startd my journy. vrything wnt smoothly at first. i dpartd from my hom city qingdao and changd a largr plan in soul, south kora. th scond day th plan arrivd in chicago on tim and i was in high spirits for i almost got to my dstination—smsu (southwst missouri stat univrsity) in springfild. just at that tim somthing unxpctd happnd.whn i wnt through th customs, th immigration officr askd m about th 9-yar-old boy who travlld with m all th way from china. as a mattr of fact, i didn't rally know th boy bfor. bfor i lft china, his grandparnts hard that i was coming to springfild through chicago, so thy askd m to tak this boy to his parnts who work in chicago. th boy had all th ncssary documnts, including his passport, amrican visa, tc. without any hsitation, i agrd to tak car of th boy on my way to chicago. i xplaind to th officr, but h insistd that i should show th boy's parnts?lttr inviting th boy to amrica, which w didn't bring with us. th officr askd us to stay asid and aftr a whil, anothr officr cam and brought us to a spcial room and ordrd us to b quit. whn i lookd around, i found anothr man thr, whos ankl was fastnd with fttrs to a bnch lg. it was obvious that i had lost my frdom. thy probably thought i was a smugglr who smuggl childrn to amrica.th plan for springfild was laving soon. i trid to xplain, but thy rfusd to listn. thy just askd us to sit still. aftr about 30 minuts, on officr cam to ask m about th boy's parnts?tlphon numbr and i told him thy wr waiting outsid th customs offic and told him thir nams. th officr said h would find thm. aftr anothr 20 minuts, h cam back and rturnd my passport and allowd m to go, but h did not bring th boy's parnts in. his parnts wr not allowd into th customs offic, so th boy had to wait. just imagin, how frightning for a boy who was only 9 yars old, spaking no nglish and was told to stay thr waiting! so i said: "no, i won't go unlss th boy gos with m or you lt his parnts com to ftch him." on haring this, th officr askd m to wait and aftr 10 minuts, h cam out and gav us th boy's passport and allowd us to lav. i lookd at my watch. i had 8 minuts lft to gt onto my plan. w hurrid to look for our luggag. just as th old saying gos, "whn it rains, it pours."on of my luggag bags in which i put all my daily nccssitis was missing. i lookd vrywhr but faild to find it. an officr thr told m to go and collct it in springfild. i had to tak th boy to his parnts. thr wr so many popl waiting outsid. i could not find his parnts. i had nvr sn thm bfor. th boy was so young that i dard not lt him go alon to look for his parnts for far h might gt lost. finally i had to call out his fathr's nam at th top of my voic, and gtting a fw stars.thy probally thought i was mad. luckily h hard m and my mission of taking th boy to his parnts was fulfilld. but thr was only about 2 minuts bfor th plan took off. so w (his fathr and i) hurrid to th trminal, only to b told th plan had lft xactly 2 minuts bfor. th officr at th trminal suggstd us to tak th nxt day's plan for it was alrady 9 pm. i was rally xhaustd. th only thing i could do thn was to find th narst hotl, "hilton hotl"to stay for th night.th nxt day i took th first plan to springfild. my luggag was still missing, and thy just askd m to wait and promisd to snd it to m th nxt day. i waitd and waitd... on day... two days... thr days... four days... but still it didn't com. i flt vry dprssd, for i could not chang my cloths for all ths days, and thy had bgun to smll. but what touchd m most was that all th collagus in my dpartmnt trid thir bst to hlp m and to comfort m. fortunatly th luggag arrivd six days latr. although th suitcas was brokn, vrything insid was saf.
