A.Connector Jr.
It’s been a week and a day no since my son Kevin has gone to the States to visit with my family. I went through numerous moments over many days preceding his leaving, on pre-missing his presence. The main concern my wife and I had about his trip (the first time going to the US or abroad on his own) was getting off the plane in San Francisco, going through US Customs (dealing with declaration form and any resulting questions) and getting luggage and connected to domestic flight in neighboring terminal. Oh, I neglected to mention that Kevin has attended local Taiwanese schools here with curriculum all in Chinese except for English classes. His spoken English has come on strong this last year since he elected to speak only English with me instead of Mandarin Chinese. I’m happy to say he managed quite well making me very proud of him. When he arrived in Phoenix my mother said he looked like he has done this 100 times-very cool and casual.
This caused me to reflect on somethings. It made me realize that a person’s life is an accumulation of experience: some good, some neutral and some bad. This made me even more excited for Kevin knowing that some day when he is experiencing difficulty and maybe some self-doubt that he can reflect back on this trip to the US he made alone at age 13, and how he handled it in stride.Nothing like some practical character building. Happy for you son-and proud to be your dad! This is one of the special pages I made for you in your scrap book in my heart and mind.
