There are always things that can surprises people when they arrive in another countries or other places. When I moved to United States, I was 11 years old. I always thought of what it's going to look like in America when I was still in my country, Cambodia. But when I arrived, my opinion that I used to have suddenly changed! The most number one thing that surprise me is, people around my house actually Cambodians, so they speaks Khmer. I thought when I came to America, I will never ever use Khmer to be my language again except when I'm at home only.
The second thing that surprise me when I came to America is that the malls are similar to the one that's in Cambodia. First I thought that the malls are probably different from where I came from, but oppositely, they are similar. And most thing that they sell in the malls are the same thing as the one in Cambodia. But what's different about the two malls between in Cambodia and in America, the sellers are different. At each places in the malls of America, they let us return stuff in if we don't like it, but most places in Cambodia, we can't even take it or return it back if something wrong to the thing that we bought.
The last thing that surprised me the most is that the houses in South Philadelphia is similar to Cambodia. But when I went to live in Seattle for two years, the houses in Seattle are not the same thing as Cambodia and South Philly. Also between the people and the neighborhood, they all different from each places that I went to. I never know about this when I was still in Cambodia. The view of the houses are different, but what they made of are different from Cambodia because in America, they used woods to make houses. And in Cambodia we used rocks,etc. Overall, these are the three big surprises that are different from what I thought about when I was still in Cambodia.
