Active Daydreamer

How to get your mind run wild at a summer night when you are thousands of miles from the sea? Having arrived in Minnesota for several days, I didn't feel any jet lag or unpleasant syndromes, probably because I was still overwhelmed with excitement. One day grandpa proposed to bring us to a firework show. I didn't realize in the first place why there would be a show that night... for god's sake, it was the fourth of July!    Astonished by the unexpected fair and the huge crowd before the firework show, I found myself surrounded by a huge number of locals and could barely stop observing those young crowds. Dressing in their summer outfits, they came with their homies/besties or someone they have just started hanging with before the end of the semester. There were also couples, family, and we, the only 2 Taiwanese passing through them with inquisitive hearts.  The fair was totally not huge, but the atmosphere was incom...

Minnesota A state where I began to weave my American dream. I came here as a lost young adult, had lost the confidence I once had towards life , and everything to me was nothing but bleak. Yes, I was 20 years old and couldn't be more clueless about how I could turn my life around. However, this state gave me the answer. I struggled with the lasting depression mixed with the cheerful delight resulting from the tiny discovery in my daily life. It was merely two months, but it led me to become an adult who I am today. The 3 most quintessential traits of Minnesota would be "Green", "Tranquility", and  "Mississippi River". There were no such things as mountains or hills in a seeable distance from where I lived, and the sky seemed always boardless. Indeed, no one can argue about why Minn is nicknamed green state once they see this view. Trees were literally at every corner! The tree that I talk about is not the stand-alone-betwe...