In the essay, the Chinese student, Liu is encountering a serious problem that every international student may have, which is the culture shock. As is said in the passage, he made a lot of efforts to fit in his school and the American society, but failed. And his solution was to transfer to another college and live with people from China. It would be certainly easier for him to stay with his own people. However, there would be a lot more difficulties to get to know other Americans and learn more about American culture. Since he had only two years to stay in the US, it would be meaningless if he only get more Chinese friends during this experience. Nevertheless, he can still make it up by trying to reach out to the Americans who are friends with his Chinese friends. Also, a different school might lead him to more friendly people who do not care about his age (since he said that his age was a problem while building friendships). Moreover, as he said, he could have a deep relationship with an American so that he would be able to have connection with the US even after he leaves.
Actually, last year I had the same problem as he did. Since I was here as an exchange student, I had to live with a host family and there was a lot of problems going on, both cultural related and nonrelated. And I also chose to move to another place and live with my relatives. I might not know the US culture as well as I was supposed to be in that way. However, since I was in a public high school, all the people I met were Americans, and I could still learn some of the culture.
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