I feel like my life is slowly draining away living in monterey park during the past 12 month. I managed an escape last weekend before I am reduced to a lifeless shell.

i like chinese people. i like spending time with them, amongst them. but living in monterey park didn't work for me.

there is a huge language barrier. most people in monterey park speak cantonese, in resturants, supermarkets, bookstores...EVERYWHERE.
my cantonese gets me as far as Hello and thank you. (and they have two different ways to say thank you. i was never able to tell the differences.)

i feel illiterated, and very foreign in monterey park.