Part 1 At one point in high school my grades were below par which didn’t really make my parents happy. They decided to enroll me into a tuition center where may other kids take tuitions during the school holiday. One week in, I didn’t have a single friend, probably because I’ve always been a really shy person. I sat outside reading before my morning class. I looked up and noticed this girl was moving towards me, she engaged into conversation with me and then told me she thought I was real good looking and that definitely was an ego booster, she then suddenly left and I never saw her again because that was my last summer school class.
At that time I was fighting against boring school life. Just at that moment, my father was about to go to the US for his work. Having believed that I would not be able to improve myself in Korea, I went to the US with my father. I was not worried for a bit because I had been studying English for years. However, it turned out to be my midjudge since English I learned in Korea was not much helpful in real life in the US.
In "THe Plane Reservation' by Massud Farzan, the main character Morad returned Iran after many years of being as an emigrant in the United States, and he found out that he does not have a place in either his mind or his heart for his homeland. When he arrived in Iran, he discovered a lot of change. First, the cabdriver did not realize Morad was Persian and treated him as a foreigner and wanted more money from him. Because of the cabdriver's behavior, Morad felt ashamed and gave him more tips. Then, he came home, and his mother was very excited to see him, but Morad was not happy like his mother.
Yusheng zhou English Composition Peter J. Pellegrin Ph.d. Fly to the other side of the ocean I believe the hardest decision I made was the one in within I decided to come to America. Four years ago, when I was still in high school in China, my parents asked me “Do you decide to go to another place, maybe try a different study environment.” The overseas study program was prevalent at that time, and that is the main reason I came to the US. The second reason I came, is because I hated the annoying Chinese education system. Most people wonder why I choice Kansas, not New York or Chicago.
He comes to the kitchen where I was sitting and looks at me with a confused face and tells me “where are you going?” “School” I replied, “you are not going to school anymore, we are moving remember?” he says. Apparently someone forgot to tell me I was moving across the world to a place called Saudi Arabia, the nest couple of weeks were sad and depressing as I was spending my last days in the country before I moved for four years. When the day finally came to take our flight, all of our family members came that evening to say their goodbyes. We arrived at the airport still with our heads down, got onboard and took off for a 12 hour flight; I don´t remember much of the flights as I slept almost the entire time. Once we arrived in Saudi we did the same process as always, go through aa tunnel and go to customs, when we exited the tunnel there was military men everywhere left and
It’s even harder when your family is in war against the communist government. At nine years old I didn’t even understand what the word “exile” means. We were politically exiled from our country and couldn’t even visit for two years, until we got a permit. Its not an easy thing to relate too. For a long time I felt that no one understood what I was going through.
As an immigrant in America, the hardest thing to do is learning English. It is survival for immigrant to live in America. I came to America without knowing any English. I’ve been through a lot of funny things on way to America, and school because of lack of English. I stepped into airplane with excitement and fear going to another country to live.
She felt that her sense of identity was already collapsing and it left her unhappy knowing her cultural character is barely precise. Hwang’s parents immigrated to the United States thirty years ago, two years before she was born. They came to America for the opportunities and freedom they wanted for Hwang. But they do not see the straddle she has between the two cultures. She says, “I’ve never known what its like to belong to a community.” (14).
Facing My Fear At Six Flags The bus ride was blurry to me now. I couldn’t remember anything anyone said or did on the bus ride to six flags. The week before, when my 7th grade class was told about the surprise field trip, everyone was exited, even I was, until I had heard what everyone wanted to ride-the cyclone. I could go on roller coasters, but not the cyclone. It had too many twists and turns that made my heart skip a beat.
It took me more than a week to cross México. Mexico is a big country; it is also one of the most dangerous countries around the world right now. When I was in México a man asked me if I was afraid and I told him that I was a little be scared. After that the person who were attendant said, “Who is Ismael” I raised my hand and I said, “that is me” then he took me to his office and he gave me the phone that was my mom who was calling me. I was so happy to hear her voice that I wanted cry at that moment, but I did not because I did not want her to hear that I was crying.