A picture is literally worth a thousand words. Especially me smiling and posing for the camera along with my mother, seems unusual because I rarely pose for a camera. It may be because I was new to the place or I was just thinking like a kid. Looking back at the memories, I see a different person at that time. An outsider looking at the picture may see it as a normal looking. Growing up as a mama's boy, as I am the only kid in the family, I have significantly changed in time. At any point of time everyone has different thoughts. No matter what happens before or after the only moment is captured in an image. In this picture I see a person who is not worried about anything. As I keep looking at the laughing face, he looks like a complete stranger, who has forgot everything around him and kept smiling in an unrealistic world. With the mustache just growing and experiencing his first American winter, trying to break the boundaries of his imagination and trying to adjust in this strange place.
             The first few months passed with confusing thoughts. Sitting by the window and listening to the strange language, all the people are speaking, standing by the road, amazed by the numerous amounts of rush-hour vehicles passing by and feeling tiny, standing in front of a tall office building are among the number of events that happened during the blank period. Trying to understand the way people act, and talk, their jesters, being made fun of and at, and trying to communicate with the little possible language he has he seems like a lost kid. Considering the process he has experienced, as well as more general cultural differences between the people, trying to get better and better he became me.
             Cultural shift have a huge impacts on peoples lives, especially teenagers, manipulating their life styles in separate ways. Assimilation of these in a positive way may result in a positive effect on the life style. Just starting to learn what th...