[Essay 2] draft #1

My Significant Person in the U.S.

　If you lose your lifework all of a sadden, what will you do every day? If you can not meet your best friends after tomorrow, whom will you talk to? If you lose word, how will you express what you mean? In August 2001, when I had moved in the United States, I was absolutely filled with dismay. I lost my lifework that I had gotten it as a result of effort, I parted from my best friends who I could talk whatever everything of mine. And most depressed thing was that I was not able to write nor speak English at all. That situation was extremely ignominious for me as a journalist. Yet I fortunately met an excellent English teacher at a language school, even though I had been up the creek without a paddle. The teacher's name is Janet, a middle-aged white woman. I have been changed by a meeting with her.
　First of the things I changed is that Janet saved me from loneliness. She understood my hopeless situation with the reason of her experiences. She moved to Japan from Canada because of her father's job when she was a junior high school student. At that time, she must have felt sadness and loneliness, likewise me though, while she was living in Japan for ten years, she graduated from a university, got marriage, and she had the first baby. Actually only once, I have ever cried and whined her that I didn't have any friends in this country. Then she told me, "The best of friends must part and vice versa. You can make new friends here." Before long, those her words became be true.
　Furthermore, I have been given language by Janet. At the time when I just met her, I was not able to speak nor understand English except my name. For example, even if she said that we opened a number of pages in our textbooks, I couldn't open the page. Because my English was really poor, she must have needed a lot of patient to teach me English, as though she was teaching an infant words. And several months after, she asked me, "What do you want to be?" I could just answer, "I want to write again." In fact, I had attended to the language school to learn English enough for daily life; however, my motivation to learn English was changed by her question.
　In addition, Janet made me be realized that having a dream is indispensable for everyone's life. She had always suggested me to find a hope for the future, and had encouraged me, "You can do it! Just study hard!" Also when I was hesitating to transfer to Irvine Valley College, she pushed and told me that I must not afraid of taking off to new world. Consequently, I found my dream that becoming a translator of books and I have been studying at the college positively. In other words, if I didn't meet Janet, I wouldn't have continued to study English.
　It is clear that I was given a change by strong and thoughtful her, nevertheless I have lost my lifework and friends. I have probably become tough and optimistic little by little as the effect of Janet.