Chapter 1:
1. In 1950s, most women in the U.S quitted their jobs and became wives and mothers as men came back from the World War II. Many women left college early to marry after the war and other women who did stay were not planning on working toward a job. Female students were encouraged to take special courses that got them ready for home life like interior decoration and family finance.
Chapter 2:
1. Pocket money: it is the money which Sookan's mother gave her when she came to America. She didn't have a lot of money in her pocket.
Honorific: it means respecting. Sookan said that she had to use a different way to show her respect to elder people when she talked with them.
2. Sookan saw Ellen's outfit matched with her nail polish and earrings. So in this way, Sookan knew color coordination was important to Ellen.
3. She had to work fifteen hours a week in the college dining hall.
4. She had to earn good grades in all her courses and to meet the social, moral, and religious standards of the school.
5. It means that the two friends split their bills and paid equally.
6. Ellen is very outgoing and energetic. She loves bright colors, hanging out with her friends and making a lot of friends. In contrast, Sookan likes simple and plain colors and she is not that outgoing. In her old life, she always used honorific terms when she talked to elder people, and she would take turns with her friends when they went out to dinner to pay the bills.
Chapter 3:
1. She took world literature, world religions, Greek and Roman culture, and early European history. Early European history is the most difficult one for Sookan.
2. Marci is the girl who lived in the single room across the hall from Sookan's room. Marci had been paying attention to Sookan over past few weeks, and she was very shy that she hardly talked to Sookan.
3. Sookan get babysitting to earn extra money for books.
4. She had never spent much time with her sister. She was very proud of her sister. Her sister asked her to write journals everyday and share with her so they won't grow apart. She felt terrible for not writing her journal entries to her sister, but she was so busy and she could not write everything down.
Chapter 4:
1. Melancholy:very sad and depressed.
2. Sookan was melancholy because she knew things were difficult back home and her mom was very worried about her, but she could not help her mother get through her hardship.
3. Sookan's mother was a very brave and strong woman. She supported the whole family and never said a single world of complaining about her difficulties. She was a great mother who loved her children very much. She was also a person who loved a simple and quiet life. We could know it from her taste of cloth and her words.
Chapter 5:
1. Sookan enjoyed the babysitting because when Mrs. Bennett asked her whether she could stay longer, she immediately answered yes. Also, she said that she felt comfortable with the two children and decided not to think about school and everything else that she had to do.
2. From babysitting, she knew that in America, men could walk into the kitchen and cook for the whole family as well as women. However, in Korea, men would never cook and serve the food, which it is totally different from this phenomenon in America.
3. Yes, I will. Because if I babysit at a family like this, lovely children and nice parents, I will definitely want to do something nice for them. I would even give up the money to spend time with this lovely family. I think Sookan did this because she really loved to spend her time with the two children and the family. They made her feel warm and comfortable. She would feel less homesick and more fit into American life.
