I spend most of my life in Bangladesh wondering how to live a purposeful -driven life in abundance. Eventually, my family moved to America to pursue our dream to get higher education.After a week in America,my uncle helped me to enroll in high school.My first day in American high school,I fell in love with American Schools and it was different from my country. My main purpose is to get better education,But it wasn’t easy for me because I was in ESL student and the language is different, for that reason I looked at my comfort zone and didn't learn proper way to speak English. Slowly I lost my confidence and didn't want to learn English because I wasn't my comfort zone and I made friends who speak different language rather than speaking English that's why I've become introverted towards English-speaking person.I used to take advantage being ESL student by not doing my assignment by making excuses of not understanding language and I used to acted I don’t know how to do my assignment and I have difficulties to understand the concept and have difficulties to read ,which is being
I have decided to move on from the group,I knew since the beginning of my high school in American. So I can start fresh and focus on improving myself and I started new and different school next year.For the first time in my life I made American friend Who actually know to speak English.I actually made some of my best friends in that high school year I listen to them and admire from them .It was easy for me to go beyond my comfort zone and have a good social skills. But I started to face the actual difficulties that I was worried about, because are used to take advantage being ESL student and I didn't worried about my academic life.I would like to use quote “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe ,then you will be
I was told that this, my junior year, would be the easiest year of my high school career. And no, they were absolutely wrong. It was not just school and grades that I was concern about either. I had other things to worry about, things like, driving, clubs, friends and family. I however had no idea that it would be this difficult. Throughout this school year I have learned many things; like the value of sleep, whose really your friend, and that although very important, grades are not everything.
Luckily this time, I already had the resources to further increase my English ability. Instead of attending a local Taiwanese school, my parents thought it would be best for me to attend an American school, where I could continue improving my English. Being one of the few well-established American schools in Taiwan, the school had a good reputation and great facilities, so naturally, it attracted many foreign teachers. These teachers, coming over teach boosted the school’s quality of education and further increasing the reputation as well. I continued working on my English, learning all the rules of grammar and punctuation, writing different types of papers, ranging from research to persuasive essays. Eventually, I would be writing my own personal statement and filling out college applications. Again, something I never thought would happen when I was four years
It is time to explore the various side of the world. Even though I would I realize how much I am going to miss my hometown and people I used to see in everyday. However this is the good opportunity, which is not everyone, can get easily so I would take and use it effectually. I arrived in Florida On August 22, 2015. I came to this country with poor English skill. At first, My parents had to teach me how to say or use the words in different situations. My duty was memorize everything they taught me as much as possible. I went to school in Fort Lauderdale with the confusing mind I didn’t even know how to communicate with other people. In the first week was so tough for me I came back home with tear on my face and my mom saw it so she ask me if it is too much for me I can go back to Thailand and I said no I will not give up and I will not look back I have gone too far to turn back no matter how hard of obstacle is I have to go through it. Three weeks later I started to set up the rule for improving my English skill. The first rule is in each day I have to talk with somebody in the school don’t need to talk about knowledge stuff just say whatever you want to say and it was worth it. I had done for a week I could get a couple friends in each class. The second rule is when I come back home I have to study and keep practicing what is my weakness skill in
In today’s competitive world, academic is very important and a good grade is most have in order to make a decent career. For the international student, this ESL class is very important. This class teaches us to adopt the writing styles used in many fields and also makes us able to communicate properly within the society. The vast diversity and increasing immigration in this country are making the society more globalized. To stand out among those crowds and make a decent career, we have to do better in learning the way the society understands and ESL class teaches us that. Furthermore, as English is generally the language used by almost everyone working and dealing at all levels, mastering it is important for ESL students to like me. Hence,
Last week, I decided to study English in college. My English that is still not good, but it is improving more than last year. I went to the orientation for the new students for the fall semester at the college. Most of the new students are American and some of them are international students as me. We had mentors to help us at orientation. The mentors, seven seniors and five college officials, helped us about
However, the difficulties I was experiencing during my first year of high school made me realize that it was imperative to meticulously scrutinize the way I studied in order to ameliorate and become the student I used to be. Additionally, I became aware that my ability to speak English was affecting me, but later I came to the conclusion that if this was a determining factor in my performance in class, I had to challenge myself by engaging in more rigorous courses. As time went on, however, due to the fact that I was surrounded by students I considered to be far ahead, I felt very intimidated by my advanced classes. Furthermore, I became aware that some of my teachers from the advanced placement classes seemed to doubt my ability to perform at the level expected, just by hearing my accent. To be condemned to failure simply because I did not speak English the same way my fellow classmates did, was a terrible sinking feeling. Nonetheless, this circumstance made me very diligent in all my classes, for it made me very attentive to the topics discussed, and it made me evaluate the extent to which I studied. As a result, with my grades and work ethics throughout the year, I proved those teachers wrong and received an apology from the one I came to admire
Finally, the experienced you faced in life are the only ones who make you improve in life. These three experiences have made me more powerful, more secure of my self. Now I’m in 12th grade and I have learn more and a better English, is not perfect, but, I understand more then before, and I can write better then in 8th and 9th grade, everything thanks to the friends who help me out, the teachers and my motive to make it possible, ignoring all the ignorant people who always have to think on you. I have learned that in this country for be someone is important to learn and speak English, but you always have to be positive and make that come true. My goal now is to speak, read, write, and understand more by putting more of my part so I can defend my self from everything.
You all know that how it feels when you are born and enter a whole new country. You are thoroughly unshaped because you are not familiar with a new place where you born. Also, you are like a blank paper that requires being filled as the time passed. I was not that active. When I came to the US, this country helps me to shape, more friendly, and who get me close to myself. In addition, I come more proximate to myself to visually perceive what I am and help me acquainted what I want to do. I was shy to talk in front of people and recollected stuff genuinely but I had a hard time to commit in front of everyone which pushed me down and hidden my talent. Since I was in middle school, I attract with chemistry and enjoyed doing experiments
No matter how hard I study English, there is a fact that my English can never be stay in a same level as Americans. Although I spent straight four years of study in English, whenever I found mistakes in any shape of works in English, I lost all of my confidence that I can do better. Many people say that study in an American college shows my effort to overcome in the language perfectly. In fact, getting to higher quality of education in English makes myself to compare with other students so that I can realize English, which I use, is not the language accept in a college
I was always a shy person who spent most of his time by himself because I was always had the impression of being ignored by others which is why I never I had the courage to speak in front of a crowd or even a small group. I also, couldn’t make friends easily. They were many reason why I couldn’t make friends. I had trust issues. I did not trust anyone, but leaving through this experience has helped me overcome my issues. When I came to the United States, I took speech class which has helped be overcome my shyness. Now, I have the courage to speak in front of a crowd with any fears of being disappointed or defeated by my fears. Moreover, I have the
At the beginning of the past school year I was the vice president of Enviromental Club, but near the middle to end of the school year, I became the president.
The meaning to this quote is remembering the past and wanting to go back either to switch the past or live in the past once again. To quote really relates to my high school journey because there was a point where I didn't care for school, and I slacked off by not turning in assignments, and not doing homework. If I could go back in time to freshman year I would make better life decisions. I would take my classes seriously.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
Being an international student, I have to face many hardships; and one of the hardest things that I have to suffer is to live independently away from home. Living on your own is always the most difficult situation, yet I’ve been living half of the Earth away from my parents for almost two years now. This experience brought me a lot of mixed feelings. Go back to the day when I decided to leave my country for studying, I finally realized that my life was going to be so different. So it turned out that I have to adapt in a strange independence atmosphere, where there was no one to remind me to clean my room, not to forget my breakfast, to take medicines when I was sick, or to drive my to school everyday. At first, my life was too tough and exhausted, I always wanted to give up, to leave this place and badly felt homesick. Sometimes, I just wanted to return back to my own place, where I can be protected and loved my by parents rather than drowning in a lonely place and face many dangerous kinds of people. As time passed by, I finally stepped out of my comfort zone and started to feel comfortable of my life. Furthermore, I’m attending college at the moment, and this is a quiet new challenging environment that I have to fit in. Through several weeks of school, I realized that I need to put a lot more effort to improve myself, for example: my self-learning skills, time management, motivation, to
...h school student. My class room teacher taught us English, and his class was always fun and I liked o listen to his stories of study abroad. I also looked forward to take the class which was given from ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) once in a month. This experience was the first time for me to communicate with people who have different background, it was fresh and I developed interest in different culture in the world. Additionally, I felt that studying English is interesting for me and I got high score on my test without studying so hard. It is the time when I think my major in university going to be English. In terms of moral development, I think I’m in the last stage of moral development theory. It is because I could think and accept other’s idea and I know I have faults. Additionally I could feel other’s feeling because of the experience of being excluded.