English is my second language, but after being in America for so long, I have learned to adapt to the American language, as well as learning how to adapt to the American culture. Being surrounded by only English-speaking people, I began to speak English, and only English in my daily life . As time passes, I gradually forget my first language, Chinese. I began to suffer from the loss of the Chinese language, and the consequences that it brings. By losing the language, I stopped celebrating most of the holidays and events that I’ve celebrated in the past when I was only speaking Chinese.
I always wanted to go to workwith him. I never thought about going to work just to make a living, but it did make it a little clearer for me to understand. My father would let me know that I will be out on my own one day, and in order to live life comfortably I will have to work to earn a living. I now realize what Russell Baker meant in his quote “go to work and make a living.” There are so many children out there that are clueless about work in America. Most don’t understand what their parents work for.
Spencer: I knew who I was when they found me and I knew my family and my friends would be worried. I just wanted to fold up and stop and I didn't want to think anymore. Dr. Sullivan: You were overwhelmed? Spencer: Yeah well I wasn't Spencer Hastings for almost a full day and nobody else showed up to take the job so guess I'm stuck with it. Dr. Sullivan: Because you're the only person in the world that can be you.
I feel useless and lonely. My parents realize they have no reason to keep working hard if I am not going to go to college. My parents soon understood that they had not been treating me like on of their children. They just wanted me to go further than they did and did not know how to express that to me. My parents try and buy me things and carenow to make up for all these lost years but my heart has turned cold.
Those two scenes caught my attention because in the past, I have been told those lines when I felt I had no purpose in life and just could not move on. I fell deeply in love, he was my first love but because of certain situations we had to break up. I just could not believe what happened to our love and resorted to cruising around the island many times and I actually did not care about school. I did some things I never thought I would do before. Close friends would tell me to move on but I was stuck in the past.
The truth is, I knew that I was going to use an old paper, but procrastinated on revision. The morning of peer critique, I woke up in labor and knew that I was not going to make it to class. I had an old copy of the narrative and asked my sister to deliver it to Amber. It made it, but I was not able to ever make any revisions, so
It’s funny what happens when everything changes so fast; one forgets about who really cares about them and who’s been there for them since day one. I made that mistake and was with new people every weekend. While it’s nothing I regret, it’s something I wish I had managed differently, and I felt bad about how I had treated my friends. When I apologized to them they forgave me, but it was never the same when I was with them. Going through this experience taught me to never take anything for granted because when everything is given to somebody at the same time, it’s easy to forget who’s
The week of graduation I was both happy and sad. I did not understand what my best friends meant by that feeling until that week. I had the sense of happiness because I worked very hard to get my degree and to be the only one in my family to graduate from college was a huge accomplishment. However, sadness played a big part in that too because I did not want to enter the real world and special people that helped raise me over the years was not here to share this important day with me, but I knew they were there in spirit. All these emotions came over me all the way up until I walked across the
We have a population of illegal immigrants that either need help or need to be sent back to their home country. America cannot continue to ignore this problem and think it may go away, because some of these people have whole families here, who have been here for a long time and this is now the place they call home. The American people often do not see the whole story. Many times we see the stories about illegal immigrants taking jobs and jumping fences, but we never hear about the cases of people who legally came here, then overstayed their work visa because they did not want to go back to a life they did not know anymore. My only issue with immigration and it is a big one, is different languages.
The place where I know I’m most welcome Throughout my life I have faced a lot in school and it was not only academy wise there were more to it, I used to be blamed for things I don’t know about. However I learned how to make all bad things good things and make the best out of it all. I realize that difficulties can make you accomplish a lot in your life without you fighting back. I move to America three years ago and came to the country with no idea of how the school system works and I did not have any idea of how they teach students differently. Trying to achieve what I want in life is really hard all I know is that I have support all the way to the end.