Essay about Coming to America

Coming into a different world from a small village in Europe, into a world that makes your dreams come true, into a world that gives us so many opportunities, so many ideas, and so much love. In my own village, the village where people were happy just because they had bread to eat and water to drink. Young people like me tried to accomplish our goals every day and become successful personages, so we would then be able to help our parents, our grandparents, and just people who we loved, and just everyone in our little peaceful village. Coming to America was something like a dream within a dream. Now Knowing that accomplishing my goal is right next to me, it feels different. It’s a feeling that many are wishing to have but never get. Now, I know

I came to this country as a small child from Uganda, naively unaware of the significance of my journey to America,

When I first moved to the United States of America seven years ago at the age of fourteen, life was challenging. I did not speak English and had to immediately start my first year, as a freshman, in high school. I always enjoyed challenges, which was one of the reasons I moved to the US, and decided to opt out of elementary English classes and jumped right into regular classes along with my English First Language Speaker classmates. Not only I had to learn Basic English to be able to communicate with people, I had to make sure I understood academic language used in classes such as Chemistry, Physics, History, Biology and etc. to pass them. I spent many hours studying English and doing my homework after school. Then, when I started to feel

Just like other immigrant students, I came here to the United State with zero English at the age of eleven. I did not expect myself to be good in English, nor speaking English fluently. In spite of that, I started sixth grade at the U.S and learned English as my second language. I was repressed of the new environment, but after a few weeks of school, I started to receive many support from classmates and teachers. They are encouraged me to maintain the good works and always inspired me with a bright future.

In this country which is almost different from my parents and my ancestors' country. I have lived two years, I saw and learned many things different from my culture. At the time, I was trying to forget my previous life and be able to adjust to the new country and start over again. It was not easy for me, but I knew that I will not be able to live the same life style that I had it in my country Iraq. So, here I would mention about some aspects of my experience to live in the USA as an immigrant. In terms of work, new cultures adaptation, and education.

I am a person who fought to get what I propose, thirteen years ago I arrive in the United States without knowing English. I was afraid at first time but the important thing is that at the

About eight-years ago, my family decided to moved to the U.S for a better future which also the day that marks my history. It’s very challenging to assimilate into a different culture and to learn a different language. My parents had a tough time finding a job to keep food on the table because they had partially education with no English. As time goes on, everything

When I first came to the US, I couldn’t speak a word of English. At the beginning, a huge depression invaded me; after school, I locked in my bathroom and cried for hours. After a month, I remembered that I had come to this country to pursue a better education, thus a better future. Therefore, I decided that something else had to be done because weeping wasn’t solving anything. That day, I developed a schedule, where I would spend half of the day studying vocabulary and reviewing conversations until I learned the language, which I did a year later.

The most significant experience I have had in my life was coming to the United States without speaking much English, going to school, and earning the Bachelor’s degree.

As an immigrant, I faced the difficulty of adapting to the American culture. The incapability of communicating with anyone who did not speak my native language, in addition to the cultural barrier between the American community and me, was my motivation to use the available resources to learn the English language. Vowing to be the top student in all my classes, I enrolled in after school programs throughout elementary school to surround myself with my English-speaking classmates. As a result, I achieved my goal of becoming proficient in English. Since then, I acquired grit to strive beyond my

I recall having the hardest time adapting to the environment and understanding English when I first moved to America in 2005; however, everything changed when Jessica, my first friend, reached out to help me. I met Jessica through the friendship between her grandma and my aunt, and with Jessica’s encouragement, I was more motivated to learn.

There are 7 billion people living on this planet, and I can say that I have something in common with all of them. We have all faced challenges that have made us who we are today. For me, I have dealt with the challenge of my family’s coming to America when I was very young, with no English skills.My family and I come to the US from a refugee camp in Thailand when I was 10. My parents had fled Burma to the camp 14 years before and started their family there. I am the oldest of 6 kids - 4 of whom were born in the camp. As soon as we got on the plane, I could tell that our journey was going to be a challenge. My parents and I could not understand anything that was said, and I was confused by all the new and different food that we were served. When we finally arrived in Charlotte, NC after three days of traveling, nothing was familiar. Even the names of streets were different. I was terrified to start a new school. As it turned out, my first day was harder than I thought. I felt sad and alone and wanted to cry all day because I did not understand what my teachers or peers were saying. Every day I wanted badly to understand what other people were talking about. I spoke only Karen and Karenni at home and English was a very strange, weird, and difficult language to learn. I was placed in an ESL class but it was not very helpful and I was only able to take it for one year. I realized quickly that I would need to work hard outside of school to learn the English that I wanted to

I arrived to the United States a few years ago from Mexico. I was a teenager when my parents decided to move to the United States. We moved here because my parents wanted to give me and my siblings a better education and improve our standard of living. When my parent gave us the news, the first thing I felt was fear, I was afraid because I did not where we were going and what to expect about the new place that we would call our home. I had to leave the place I grew up, my family, and my friends behind, and I felt that I was not ready for that big change. I remember the first day I came to the United States with my family and at the beginning it was a struggle to adapt to a new language, to a new culture.

When I first came here I was only 9 years old; I did not know anything. I had always thought I was going to spend the rest of my life in my country, since I was born there, but I guess I was wrong. I remember as soon as I arrived at the airport, I was like a lost soul swimming in the ocean. That was when this old lady found me just standing there and looking around.

When I came to U.S. I didn’t understand enough English to communicate others. Moreover, I had a young child and I was a single mother. I could not take my child to a hospital without having an English language translator. I was actually dissatisfied with myself the way I needed support from the interpreter. I finished high school in my country of Somalia, and during that time I had learned limited English. Also, it was not sufficient to talk with others. Six months later, after I arrived in Boston I started working. I practiced trying to learn excellent English all the time, so I can communicate with others, but it was difficult for me. Learning English is hard when you have children and you are an adult. Additionally, it was difficult to attend school when you do not have money to pay the school fee. For that reason, I used to search schools that teach adults English for free. It took me a couple of years until I could sign up and study at a community college. I received support from my teachers and tutors so I could learn and understand the language. Today I have overcome that obstacle and I’m pleased with my honesty work that I have done as a university student. Additionally, as a mother it is not easy job because I did not know how to feed children or change their diapers. I wasn’t with my family and there was no one that showed me how to do breastfeed my child. However, I overcome and I do everything I need and I believe in myself because I try everything and I never say I can’t.