Personal Narrative: Overcoming My Fears Of Rejection

Overcoming my fears of rejection Have you ever wondered how it feels like to be rejected? I guess not, when I was younger I was rejected by my friends because of my family’s poor background. Starting from elementary school I was separated from my friends because I came from a poor background. I had to grow up without friends moreover this was a very bad experience, because I never had the chance to learn from my friends. Instead I became the face of ridicule at my school, I was criticized called all sorts of names and I was unable to learn because I was in a foreign land seeking for refugee and did not receive any assistance from school officials because I wasn’t a native born citizen. My only hope was making it from Zambia to the United States because almost everybody spoke about the American dream, opportunities as well as free education because my

Yet my greatest challenge was learning how to speak English, this was a heavy challenge because I had to learn how to work with different students from different countries. I also had to adapt to a new learning environment, I had to learn how to operate with computers and internet because in my country students were not offered internet facilities. It was an interesting adventure learning from other people experience, but very challenging because we all had different levels some students were beginners some were intermediate and some students were advanced. After spending two years in ESL classes I felt like I needed a change in learning environment because the teacher spent the entire class period explaining to students and I had to stay late after school in order to get notes. As a student of a poor background I was so determined to make my destiny I wanted a better life for