DEPARTED FROM
Bangkok, Thailand
ARRIVED IN
New York, New York
YEAR
2013
AGE
24
NOW LIVES IN
Seattle, Washington
TRANSCRIPT
My name is [?]. Right now, I’m 24 years old. First time I came here was 2013. So, I landed in New York with my close friends. First day…it was so exciting. Because, my friend and I, we were planning like two years before that. I landed in New York, it was snowing at the airport. You could see like snow on the ground. I think they turned on New York…and that…that amazed me…very excited. Like, my dream came true. This is America. So, the first day after we landed we got out, off the plane…we were lost. So we took the subway. Instead of to Manhattan, we took the train to Harlem. And we were like, okay…we’re lost and we need to get out of that place. So yeah…we took the train from Harlem back to Manhattan. And then, we got out of the train and we spent like, almost an hour…looking for our hotel. The funny thing is…we like decided to go to the Thai restaurant nearby and ask them, “where is this hotel?” We went to Vietnamese restaurant and then the funny thing…we didn’t ask them ‘cause we didn’t know and it was like, my friends and I, we were about to leave…that look from people there…it was so mean. So yeah, and then, yeah, we figured it out later.
