18岁的时候,我离开家乡纽约市的布鲁克林区,来到英国约克郡的利兹大学学习历史。这虽是一件令人兴奋的事情,但同时也是我这一生中最为艰难的一个时期,因为,我不仅要努力使自己适应不熟悉的新环境,而且,我还得学会克服我父亲刚刚去世—一件我还没有接受的事件—给我留下的太过熟悉的伤痛。 At the age of 18, I left my hometown of Brooklyn in New York City and came to Leeds University in York, UK to study history. This is an exciting thing, but it is also one of the toughest times in my life because I not only need to work hard to adapt myself to a new unfamiliar environment, but also I have to learn to overcome my father’s death - an incident I have not yet accepted - the too familiar pain that left me.