Chapter 14 America America

America America Feng Tang Feng Tang @ 2007-9-30 13:00:57 When I first learned geography, I met an old maid teacher who wore a white cotton dress and asked us to memorize the names of 200 major countries in the world, the names of their capitals, their economic centers (if they were not capitals), their general locations and the shape of the map.The small countries in Africa and Europe are the most difficult to remember, and extraordinary measures must be used.At that time, there was a word memory method called "storm fans", which was to memorize all words according to their roots and pronunciation as various murderous, pornographic, and unreliable things.Used in the geography of this spinster, Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is recorded as a rape scene: "The ground was torn and the girl was picked."The least trouble is the United States, a word, the United States.What kind of country deserves such a name?

In the ten years before going to the United States, I repeatedly experienced the United States through various channels.My stout older sister became a fair lady in America.The attitude is different, the demeanor is different.My elder sister sent me a picture of her and a certain boy in a certain flower bush in the United States. She, who won the discus championship in Nanjing University, felt like a little bird in a trance.My junior sister's boyfriend in the United States sent her twenty-four pairs of thick Nike cotton socks. The next summer, she changed into short skirts, and her calves were smooth and soft like no other. At night, they fluoresced.My supervisor in obstetrics and gynecology was one of the first batch of 50 people sent by the government to study in the United States in 1980. Like everyone else, he brought more than 60 packs of instant noodles and two extra jars of dried shrimp and squid Stir-fried meat chili sauce.A year later, with the money saved by others, I bought Sony TV sets, Toshiba VCRs, and Panasonic washing machines for my family at the duty-free shop, bought a Philips nine-band short-wave radio for my son to listen to the Voice of America, and bought Chanel perfume for my wife. , My mentor bought a Harley motorcycle and a flowered shirt with all the money he saved and the thousands of dollars he earned from doing acupuncture for others.From late spring to early autumn, my mentor had another hobby. After the operation, he drove his American Harley motorcycle, wearing his American floral shirt, and drove out of the hospital. Changjie, turn right to Nanchang Street, go north to Beichang Street, turn right to Jingshanqian Street, Wusi Street, Dongsi Street, then turn right back to Dongsi South Street, make a circle around, his flowers The shirt was lifted by the wind, revealing that there was no fat on the belly that had been used for fifty years.

On the morning of my first day in the United States, I wanted to change my ticket to go back.When I woke up in the morning, I found that there was a flush toilet in the room, there were birds singing outside the window, and there was a big lake in the distance. It might have rained a little at night, and I could smell the mud when I opened the window.But, there is no one.I walked five miles from the room, but I didn't see a single person. It was nine o'clock in the morning.Want to eat something, no pancakes, fried dough sticks, soy milk, soy milk, no buns, dumplings, live fish and chicken.I barely ate two things called Bagel in a small shop called Einstein Brothers. It was much worse than Huangqiao Shaobing, and it was much worse than Roujiamo with Bacon Sauce.

I was full alone and stood on the deserted streets of the United States. I remembered all the expectations I had for the United States. It seemed that I had been looking forward to a spring outing for a long time when I was a child. Finally, one morning, I stood in the film and television city created by a certain township entrepreneur. doorway.