My foreigner friends were warmhearted and dear, but for someone like myself, with an especially heavy China complex, who feels down in the dumps after not chatting in Chinese or not seeing another person with black hair and tawny skin for too long, things could get pretty lonesome, and my longing for home and country would often flood over me in waves and drown me.
異國友人雖也熱情可愛，但對我這個中國情結特重，長久不用中國話聊天，或看不見黃面孔黑頭髮，就會覺得情緒低落的人來說，心境頗為寂寞，家國之思如潮似浪，常常將我淹沒。