Exchange Student Essay

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Before I come to the United State as an exchange student, I lived in Thailand. I was also born in Thailand. I was always wanted to get the experiences in other country. I am so lucky that my parents are supporting me. Some of my friends, they are also want to study abroad but their parents did not agree with. I could not be here if my parents did not support me and give me suggestions. I came to U.S. in the senior year but my school put me in junior because they could not let me graduate if I will be study in this school just 1 year. So I have to repeat another year but I know this is not worthless, it is priceless.

24 hours on the plane to come to U.S, eight thousand miles away from home, has impacted to me. I have learned many things. Between …show more content…

and high school in Thailand teach students are different. My school in Thailand kind of strict that students should have a good behave such as, students have to respect to teachers so it is not appropriate to argue with teacher or when you are talking with teacher, you should not be higher than teacher. For example, if teacher is sitting on a chair, you should go on your knees. However, U.S. did not have this kind of culture which means the gap between teacher and student is closer so students are not afraid to ask any question. My school does not have any activity to do after school. Students can play sport only in gym class which has only 1 class a week. But in U.S., they do have after school activities. I joined basketball in the winter season and lacrosse in spring season. This was my first time playing lacrosse. Lacrosse is the best sport I have ever played, it was a great time when I was in the lacrosse team. My coach has taught me many things not only how to be a good lacrosse player but also shape me to be a good person. She never got mad when my team lose but she always said something to motivate us. My coach said “It’s not about how many goal you made but it’s about the friendship that you have made”, this made me know that even I won every games but I did not happy with my teammate, all the success was worth nothing. I have not known my teammate before playing lacrosse but when we practiced

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