WHEN I FIRST WENT TO AMERICA

back when i was in elementary school, i knew that some day i would go to america. Esther Anderson one of the missionaries who ran the school, was from California. She would tell me "Joseph, one day you will go to school in America." You will go to California, she told me many times. I'd go home and tell my mother and she would say "what's America??" She knew nothing about America and neither did I. But later when i was in High School i just remembered about that I was going to America. When the time came, I applied to American universities to take my degree. I took the SATs and English language examination. All the collages I applied to accepted me, but none offered me a scholarship or any other financial aid. I did not have any money, there were not enough cows in Kenya to send me to school at America. So i just thought why not i just change my plans. I'll goto the Local university. I took the National Examinations while I was waiting i went to see President Moi. One day later after i was working at a back i meet a man from America. He asked me if i was going to school in America and i told him that all the schools i picked did not have the scholarships that i needed. So the man said ok, give me some time. And a few months later i got this letter saying i was accepted. I was going to St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York, with a full scholarship. I have been told short stories about America, and i knew nothing about it. Like " don't eat with the fork wrong", "always watch your things", American woman do not mess with them!! They all have little guns in the bags so don't mess with them. they just shot you. Now i am at the Nairobi Airport alone with no one. I said good bye to my family before i left to the airport. When i was at the airport i had on a "three piece wool suit with a collar and tie" I had no idea how hot it was going to be at New York in August.