New Year in LA

I stayed in LA for 5 days. The weather here was nice and warm, which was the same as my hometown Wuhan in May. The smells in the street here were similar to the ones in Wuhan, smell of city. I felt familar with the environment here, but I still missed Durham. I loved the snowing there. I will take tomorrow's plane back to Durham, and now I am so excited. People's feeling was strange. Whenever they stayed in one place for a long time, they definitely had special feelings towards that place, no matter how they complained that place before. I complained Durham a lot when I first came to U.S. I disliked its quiet because I got used to the city life before; I disliked its cold and snow because I came from a warm place; I disliked the simple life there because my life was more colorful.

I spent my New Year's Day here with my friend. It was the same as New Year's Day in Wuhan. Young people went out together and stayed outside or in the bar, even it was raining outside. City was decorated and everywhere was crowded. It was totally different with the view in Durham, where people stayed at home with their family members and talked about their lives during the past year. To be exactly, life in Durham was more traditional, and life here was more modern. But maybe I am a tradtional person, I still like the traditional life style. I like the way American families celebrate their Christmas. All the family members came back home and had dinner together, they talked about their lives and news. You could feel the love between family members. They loved their families and families were their whole life.