But my friends felt that I was nothing like their imagined conception of the shy Asian, and they were extremely interested in me because I came from so far away. After a while, I was invited to the homes of more and more friends, where I shared Taiwan's Chinese culture.
朋友們因而覺得我並不如他們想像中的東方人一樣害羞，對來自遙遠東方的我很有興趣，接著我便常被邀請到朋友家中暢談台灣的中國文化。