As a student from another country, I come to understand how it would feel to leave your home country and move to another place, where you don’t know anybody and nothing or no one to rely on. It is also difficult to go somewhere and have to have to learn a completely new language. The United States has a different culture that is not always similar to foreign cultures. The hardest part is being away from family (a strong, reliable support system) and friends. Immigrating to the United States is much easier when you have people that understand your situation, usually because they’re in the same position. I think isolation groups (like the Vietnamese in the east) can become a necessity for certain people; it is an answer to a situation that they had to solve when they came. It is not necessarily a good or bad idea, but more of a comfort zone.

For me the best part of the church was this, the altar. In some way made me think about how symbols are always what put the believes together no matter where those believes are come from.