Expository Essay About The Outsider

When I hear the word outsider, I think of something that don’t belong to that place. Something that seems or feels wrong. When I think of the word outsider, I image a cat trying to fit in with a group of dogs. I know this because one time I felt like the cat. I was trying to fit in a group that I thought I did not belong. I experience this situation when I moved to the United States, in August 2009 . In addition, I felt like a lonely girl, trying to create a new life in a place that I thought I did not belong. I was not only the unwelcome person in my first day of class, but also I had different perceptions of the United States. Although this perception changed during the time I have been living in the United States, I am still working to not feel like the newcomer.

When I first experienced the situation where I felt like an

The lonely girl that did not knew no one, except that this time I understood the language and I could communicate with different people. I am still struggling to not feel like the unwelcome person, but now I understand that I am not the only person that feel the same, there is a lot of people that also feel like an outsider. This time I was a dog in a group of dogs and I fish swimming happily in my tank. Moreover, my high school was not like I imagine it would be, but I learn that those are only perceptions that it does not have to be like people told you is going to be. I learn that I can make my own perceptions and I am the only one that could make things different. Therefore, through my experience of my first day of class or my perception about a schools in America I understood what really the word outsider means. An outsider is a displaced person, but it depends on the person if they want to place themselves or if they want to be displaced the rest of their life. I chose to not be the lonely girl and that is what matters to