Today let me talk about some extra stories in Hollywood!
To clarify everything, at first I have to talk about my life in the US…
My place was around Los Angeles. It took 45 minutes to go to LA. So you would know my place was kind of in the country side. I was living in an apartment with my friend Oscar , his younger brother and his mom. They liked animals so they had a dog and a cat. I had never dreamed to have animals in the US! I was so glad about that. But there was no way that the cat would put me in a hard situation…
I didn’t think it was home-staying. I think they thought like the same way too. But anyway I appreciated them so much that they helped me a lot. So I got one more reason to succeed.
One of the hardest situations came to me in Summer. California is so dry and sunrays are so strong. Of course oranges grow up good. One of the reasons I went to LA was to get to know about America. That was why I didn’t only study but enjoyed too. I went to some beaches with my close friends. First time when I saw American sea was on Independence Day. I realized there were so many American people! Usually nobody was walking outside though.
Then I went to Laguna Beach and Long Beach . American beaches seemed to have their own characteristic. Laguna Beach had the highest waves I had ever seen. I was swallowed by the waves and they threw me to the ground. Luckily I just got some bruises on my body.. My friends got them too. But the worst thing happened at Long beach! It didn’t have high waves. But the streams of the sea were so strong that we couldn’t stay still. And sometimes they pulled us diagonally. I didn’t know why but that reminded me of an avalanche of rocks and earth. This beach had some other characteristics. It was a shallow beach. I wanted to check where it got deeper, so I went to further out alone. The streams were not that strong at the time though I didn’t know why I did that.. Anyway when I was going to far away , it didn’t get deeper at all. So I looked back and I noticed I was going too far!! I tried to go back to the beach.. But… My body was being pulled strongly, and my body didn’t go forward.. I could only proceed to the beach little by little.. At the time … I heard something snapped! <.p>
I was swimming though my sight became dark.. I saw some goggles were floating ! They were mine! I remembered something! The cat in my place she was biting cables and messing them up! My goggles were one of them.. The rubber was ragged… I tied up everything by swimming in one place trying not to go underwater. I tried to go back the beach again. I suddenly thought I came here to become an actor and I couldn’t die this way! I called up all my courage and tried it again harder! Finally I could handle the streams and my body was proceeding to the beach! While I was going back the beach, a surfer asked me if I needed help. I answered. “It’s ok but thanks” I was really ok at the time because my goggles were alright and I finished the most difficult part already. I arrived at the beach! I was exhausted… but I made it! After a while my friend told me that I should have swam diagonally against waves. I didn’t know about that tactic.. But I learned something from that experience. And I got to know I should be always paying attention to cats.
Another occurrence happened in the morning one day. I was getting ready for school. I had to concentrate always for driving because it was a 1 hour drive. Nothing special happened until I got on a freeway. Then something happened to me…
I got on the freeway and stayed in the 2nd lane from the left. I was listening to the radio. The weather was nice so I felt good. Then I heard a weird noise.. The sound of the engine was weird .. It was too high pitched compared to usual. I thought maybe something was wrong with my ears. But I could hear the music from radio like always!! When I noticed about that, the car was slowing down itself. The accelerator didn’t work.. Then black smoke came out from in front of the car and car was wrapped by the unhealthy smoke.. Then white smoke was coming out next!! It was like a movie! But anyway I had no time to think about stupid stuff, so I tried to pull over. I turned on the emergency ramps. My car was getting slower still and the speed was already 40miles/h (About 60km/h). The only good thing at the time was I was being calm. Then I could reach the space at the right side.. It was over. I survived! But the engine died. So I called my friends and Oscar and Dai came there and helped me. At the time a towtruck from the government happened to find us and helped my car get off from the freeway.
Then we called another tawtruck and took my car to a mechanic. I thought maybe this would be nothing but it was something.. The mechanic said he couldn’t fix the engine. I had 2 choices that was to change the engine or change the car.. Anything could happen in America. That was beyond my imagination and became real. The reason why my car broke was because it was leaking oil. The ex-owner thought she fixed it but it wasn’t repaired. Anyway she had no idea about cars, so it was not her fault. I decided to fix it. It would cost $1000. Maybe I was lucky in a bad situation because the mechanic could also change the timing belt and the water pump which we had to change once in a while. Then I stared my train life again. It was ok because I could meet some of my train friends again.
I want to warn all of you, when you buy an used car, you need to do a full-check on the car.
I could go through extraordinary experiences and survived. That was why I realized how much it was great for me to just live and pursue my dream to become an actor in Hollywood. I would stand a hard life. I just wanted to continue pursuing my dream. It was worth trying in this place.
Hollywood is the center of the movie industry all over the world. I will not regret anything. All I need now is to have stronger spirit and continuation. I will fulfill other needs later.
I survived and finally was about to take a small step forward…
To be continued...
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