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Panoramic view of NYC

This date marks the day I arrived in JFK, NY a year ago. I arrived on June 11, 2005. It was one of the most unforgettable days of my life. I couldn’t believe I finally made it in this country for the sake of love (ehem!).

Time flies fast and I am looking forward to another year I am going to spend with my new family now that my husband and I are expecting our first baby. Sooner or later, I will be a mother. I am fondly called “little mama” by a few friends whom we already informed about my pregnancy. This could be the most unexpected and the most precious present that I am going to have in December. This August 20th will be our first wedding anniversary and I look forward to that as another meaningful date of the year too.

Within the past months, I have had struggled on adjusting to this new environment, new family, new neighborhood, new culture and all the rest of the new stuff I had to deal with in this country. It was a difficult time for me. One thing I never experienced was crying everyday. I was thankful I didn’t have the common blues of missing ones family at home. I did cry a few times when I thought of them but never terrible which usually makes most people homesick. I do miss a lot of things though - friends, cousins, contagious laughter and most especially the food. Perhaps, I was just helping myself to get used to detaching oneself a bit of the strong family ties of our heritage. I had to accept change in order to survive in this new jungle.

I had plans of going back home this year months ago before I discovered I am going to enter a new phase of my married life - being a mother . Needless to say, I have to wait ’til the baby comes before I can fly back to my hometown which is more exciting since a new addition to the family is expected.

I hope these goals will be realized accordingly. I do pray to make things possible. God bless everyone!