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
There were times in which I did not want to go to school, times I did not want to face humiliation, time I hated everyone around even myself, However, as time passed, I soon discovered that there wasn 't a better place I could have moved to. In America, My journey across the dark tunnel has taught me a priceless lesson: "Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." I have used this lesson in my adapting to a new environment as different as the USA. In my past 3 years in high school, I’ve learned a very important lesson: never let your background, your mistakes, or your fears stop you from becoming the person that you want to be. I know that everyone here, with me today, has the potential to do something great. In conclusion, I want to say to all of you please do not walk away from your difficult time or do not hide from your reality, just go with the flow and as the time passes, you will be able to get out of your difficult time and you will be able to identify yourself as I did. While, facing the reality you have to go through many difficult situations, but you should not give up and just move on. Living in such a completely different environment is the biggest challenge of my life. Honestly, I really enjoy the beautiful and quiet environment here. All that I am today is what I have learned after moving here. Every experience I have had has been valuable. Every person I have met has helped me grow. Every failure I have had has been but a pit stop on the way to bigger
In the year 2000, right before the start of my 5th grade year, I moved to the Dominican Republic from the United States. My parents wanted to raise my sisters and me there. I had to start a new life, a new school, and make new friends. Making the transition from the United States to the Dominican Republic really wasn’t difficult because I spoke Spanish at home with my family. In fact, I was a good student, often earning honor roll and getting diplomas for having good grades. I moved back again to the United States in my junior year of high school, because my parents wanted me to go to college in the US. It wasn’t easy; I didn’t know anybody, I had to make new friends again, and I wasn’t familiar with the life over here. I only spoke a little bit of English, because I had spent many years taking classes in Spanish while in the Dominican Republic. To help me pick up the language again, I decided to take regular classes instead of english as a second language because I thought this strategy would help me learn more English and get accustom to the language.
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
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.
The first and second year after moving from China to the United States, I was afraid to talk to strangers because my English was not very well. I had to depend on my husband for dealing with my personal business, such as making a doctor’s appointment, calling to the bank, or questioning to DMV officers. Douglass says, “being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart” (62). For myself, being a dependent and helpless adult is a shame. Moreover, I lacked of extra money to go to school to improve my English. Thus, I stayed home all the time to avoid embarrassment of talking to strangers. After a while, I realized that improving English speaking skills are the essential to gain my self-confidence. So, I spent time to read various articles on the internet and watched English dialogues’ videos on YouTube. As a non-English speaking immigrant living in the U.S., I inevitably encountered a series of difficulties to integrate myself into a new
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
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.
many people personally told me that people change for the better or the worse during high school, but i never believed it was true. looking back on my high school years i noticed that what they said was actually accurate. it all seemed strange to me at first because i 'm not the type of person who lies and manipulates others to become someone 's friend. but within those four years i became aware of how quickly people can switch up and change. like how the person i thought i knew acting completely different. but many others were, so i realized that my biggest mistake in high school was letting friendship change my actions and get to me.
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.
As everybody, I also came here to get a better life in future. I was very excited to go to new school at a very different place, make new friends. One of the biggest challenges for me, after coming here, was to learn English. In our house, academics were the main priority for my parents. In the start, I had very hard time to learn English. I did not pay too much attention to my English classes. I liked to study my other subjects except for the English. In my junior year, I had to write a thesis about William Shakespeare. I used to hate writing. I didn’t like to write even a single word of
A few days ago, I wrote a letter in my native language to the teenager who is going to be migrating to the U.S. For me, my native language is Chinese. It has been my first language that create the connection of my family, background and identity. In my letter,I described one of my biggest change from my migration experience which is the new community I live in. In the new community is likely in the new environment that I have to face many problem and challenges. In other word, I have to face the challenge to adjust it. People who in my community speaks different language. English is the way to communicate with. So, mostly I have to speak English to communicate with it. In other area such as in school, park, and store I also need to use English
High School is a different experience for everyone and those experiences can be both good and bad. Sometimes you will be super happy because you get an “A” on a project or assignment, and other times you get so frustrated with yourself or a teacher so much that you wish you were done with it all. Overall, high school was an interesting experience for me. I was always doing something whether that be homework, after school activities, or even organizing events. It seemed like I had no free time at all. High school has definitely taught me many things that I will take with me the rest of my life.
When I was in high school I had a problem, which was being shy. Being shy made me seem as if I was anti-social, and caused me to have no friends, but my shyness was decreasing each year of high school because I talked more, and by the time I reached 12th grade I had many friends, who are very close to me till this day. While being in high school, I was always focused on my studies. People believed that I was a genius in high school, but I really wasn’t, I was just focus on the lessons, and understood what the teacher taught us. As I reached eleventh grade, I was chosen to be a part of the National Honor Society; I thought that I was never going to be part of the National Honors Society. I was at the hospital when my friends told me the good news—that I was selected to be part of the National Honors Society. As I reached 12th grade I learned that working while going to school is a bad idea if you can’t multitask right. When I was working I didn’t realized that I wasn’t multitasking right; I wasn’t putting enough effort into my studies, and having a job was distracting me, so I decide to quit my job, and continue my education by going to college. Growing up was scary, but I’m ready what the future is holding for
...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.