Home is a place that makes people feel complicated. What happened at home may be not always pleasant. It’s good to be away from home in a sense, for distance creates a sense of beauty. But home is still home, somewhere you belong to and you know your root is there. It’s good to have a place you can go back and feel everything is so familiar.

Interestingly, sometimes I feel Austin is more like my home now, especially when I’ve been staying here longer. Family and friends in Taiwan are very far away and not really very much involved in my current life. It’s a great blessing that God brought me to Austin, where there is full of beautiful sunshine and wonderful friendship.

It’s hard to explain how much intricate emotion can be triggered by a long trip. It always makes me think a lot each time I fly between the east and the west of the Pacific Ocean. From Taiwan to Austin, Texas, my cross-cultural journey is still going on. Sometimes I’m so curious where I will be next year at this time? My student life is approaching an end (finally!) and I definitely need to move on. Sometimes I have an urge to go to a whole new place and start over, putting everything behind…