5 September 1886

Recently I have become homesick. Funny how it sounds, because the reason why I came to Hawaii was to get away from China and beginning a better future. But I know that I can never back to what I once called my home. I have sacrificed so much already that it seems very unreasonable to just pack up and leave to start back at square one in China. I have already become ‘American-ized’. My muscles have grown accustomed to the lifestyle of hard labor work, my body has adapted to eating-on-the-go, the use of technologies has become a daily routine in my life. My home is now here in Hawaii.