Moving in Amercia

Usually, June is a season of farewell because of the graduation day. I went through it 5 years ago, in Shanghai. Back to 2004, half of my friends took their flights to Paris, half of them stayed and I arrived in Los Angeles International Airport. I didn't expect the season of "goodbye" came back again 5 years later. This time, it has nothing to do with graduation but our Mommy Club.
Our Mommy Club was formed back in 2006, when most of our kids were just starting their first walk in a park near our home. Except for having kids, we have a lot more in common. We all married, of course. We all came from foreign countries when we were young to chase our dream. We are all first-generation-immigrants, struggling for almost everything ourselves in this new land. Since we get little help from our distant families, Mommy Club becomes a big support of our lives. We not only share experience of childcare but also love each other as a big family. However, when our kids are taller and older, there are more to be considered, such as school district and a new home.... The place we are living now is a quiet and beautiful apartment community. The only concern is its "non-excellent" schools. Thus one month ago, Ontario's family decided to move to Austin and Taotao's family started their new life in Seattle. Just one week ago, Jonathon's family purchased a new house in cupertino and moved to their new house last weekend. Suddenly, most of the boys in our social net have left. I know it will take quite a time for my son to get used to it—making new friends and put old friends in best memories.
I still remember the day when we had our farewell party. Someone said that moving is just part of our life since our ancestors moved from woods to woods, tribes to tribes and continents to continents. Sometimes moving became adventure, and adventure evolved into epic, that’s how we got Iliad and Odyssey… In modern America, we are just average Joes, Jacks, Janes and Jeffs, trying to make a living here and there. If there is an American dream in this land, then moving is just something pragmatic—part of our life experiences, especially for immigrants. I am trying to count on my fingers that how many movings have I been through in America? LA to San Jose, back to LA, then Sunnyvale, back to LA again and eventually living in Sunnyvale now while expecting a big moving to Pleasanton the end of the year.
Definitely, we are enriching our life through moving, getting deeper involved in its culture and society.