I would like to tell you about someone special to me. We weren't very close at first. When we first met we had a little distance. The reason was because we looked different from each other. He and I were citizens of different countries.
        I was born and grew up in a village in South Cholla Province. One day my mother told me that we were going to move to a new place very far from there, where the people looked different from us. I was very excited so, I bragged to my friends about big news. Everybody was jealous of me. A few days later we went to Seoul to ride a big thing that looked like a bird. It was an airplane. I was excited. I rode the airplane to a place called America. That was the place were we first met.
        My life there was very interesting and fun with the people who had different faces from me. They were very nice and kind. They didn't think that I was different from them. I knew that from the way they treated me as if I were their best friend. If something happened to our family they would run right over to help us. As you can see, we had good neighbors. One of the best was my Uncle Leo.
        At first he wasn't one of our neighbors. His home was in Maine (a state up north). We could only see him on our winter vacation. Since it didn't snow in Florida, we had to go up north to see him and fluffy white snow. A few years after we met, he came down to live next to us.
        From this time on we became best friends. He was the only person who could understand my problems that were deep inside me. He knew the difficult things in living in a different place that had different faces from me. The way he knew that was because he also had an experience in Korea for about 5 years before and after he met my aunt. He also had about the same problems as me. When we talked with each other, it was like talking with my best friend.
        When I was an elementary school student and I had fights with my friends, he was there to solve them for me.  He always told me to work it out. Don't be afraid to fight against the things that were against me.. He always made me go first to say sorry for the things I did wrong or for the misunderstanding things, because he wanted to make me a person who can think of other peoples feeling first insead of just thinking about myself. He didn't want to make me think that I was different from my friends that didn't look like me. Since I was a little person who couldn't think widely on my own, he wanted to be the person who could give me the power to do that.
        He was a wise man who had a lot of experiences.  If it wasn't for him, I don't know how I could look at other people or understand the way they are behaving these days. I am glad that I got to be best friends with him. If it wasn't for him I don't know what I would doing right now. His big position in my life made me a person of today and for tomorrow.