People Are Always Changing Essay

People are always changing. What should I be? It is a question that I always ask myself. Since I went to school, I stated to ask myself if I should be an earnest student or a naughty girl, and if I should become an outgoing active person or an introverted shy people? Many people may find an easy answer: just be yourself. However, in many cases, to be the one they used to be may not be the best way for people. Instead, sometimes it is better to make a change, especially for international students like me, who are confronted two totally different cultures. It is not just a simple question about who people want to be. It requires people to make a choice whether they would like to change and how they will change. From the moment when I left from

The way of communication, thinking, and studying will be different from the way I used to do. And any individual international student can represent a group, a nation, and even a culture. At the beginning, I spent two quarters take ESL classes. During that time, I tried to have more opportunities to contact with and understand American culture. To my surprise, everything seemed to be smooth. I even didn’t experience “culture shock.” So I thought I had known all American culture because we talked about it in the class again and again, like different ways of greeting, different eating habits, and the tip culture in America. Teachers taught us critical thinking. They asked questions and I could answer all of them, so then I thought I had understood it. I even took a Cross-Cultural Communication class, we learned different cultures in Japan, Korea,

Since this is my first time to take full-time college classes, in some ways, it means that it is my first time to enter real American class and contact with American classmates in the school. Therefore, the things I consider are how to be a college student and how to be a college student in America. In order to know more about American culture, I chose to take this class: intercultural