I had a dream that I could fly. I couldn’t stop day-dreaming about how I would fly like a big bird

Studying abroad will be an experience of a lifetime. Going beyond the US Coastlines that I have never crossed will get be valuable life lessons that I must learn to be successful in my future career. I want to increase my knowledge both inside and outside of the classroom, and I believe the best way to do that for me is to continue to go beyond those small town borders that have kept me

to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone

With an increase in student mobility around the world, there are many positive outcomes related to learning a different set of education from their home country and obtaining intercultural experiences with a global mindset. On the other hand, students may struggle with different challenges, which they may have unexpected to encounter.

Fear holds back a person’s ability to commit to an event, a relationship, and contains one back from his or her dream. As a child, I dreaded boarding an airplane due to the altitude and the pressure closing one’s ears, a terrifying experience. In addition to my fear of airplanes, flights would absolutely bore me. Hence, my impatient reaction of shaking my leg in a fast paced, up-down motion, a nervous tick. Over the years, every time my parents announced a trip that required an airplane flight, the idea would horrify me. Nevertheless, the distinct moments I boarded airplanes, there were always hints of curiosity about the bird-shaped flying machine. How does this strange machinery work? How could an airplane be this frightening? That fear was the foundation of my commitment to aerospace engineering.

While flight remains conspicuously absent throughout Milkman's childhood, it frequently reoccurs when he is on his quest to rediscover his past. Milkman's first act of flying is an airplane ride to an old town where his father's family once resided; it is his flight to finding himself. "The airplane ride exhilarated him, encouraged illusion and a feeling of invulnerability. High above the clouds, heavy yet light, caught in the stillness of speed" (Morrison 220). Milkman feels immune to all the mistakes of his past, as though they could not have ever existed. "In the air, away from real life, he felt free, but on the ground, when he talked to Guitar just before he left, the wings of all those other people's nightmares flapped in his face and constrained him" (Morrison 220). Milkman searches for freedom from his past mistakes, from the baggage of the people in his life, and from the expectations of his father. This first flight on an airplane grants Milkman the feeling of freedom he has searched for all his life, at least for the short amount of time he remains in the air in the "intricate metal become glistening bird" (Morrison 220). He gains a taste of the freedom towards which he strives, and this momentary bliss helps him to realize the

Over the many weeks that followed second by second the dream gradually got longer. Amelia had grown used to the dreams and even got excited to find out what would happen next, alas her excitement was premature. As she sat in her boring English class, the teacher droning on, the only was gloomy disinterest spread amongst the young students. In her peripheral vision she saw a flash of black, her eyes subconsciously followed the black blur and found nothing. Just as she was about to give up looking for the cause of what spiked her interest, she heard a screech... The same screech that was in her dream nearly every night, that same sound that had caused both fear and excitement to run hot within her veins. Her eyes linked with those of the bird, at first look anyone would call

I always thought that you’d see it coming, the endless black and the twinkling stars, but no, a whoosh through the clouds and we were there. I didn’t ever want to die, but in that moment I would’ve been okay with it. Space would be beautiful enough to die in. My dragon kept going, riding the tails of stars and flying so quickly past the moon that the dust got in my hair. Everything was quiet in space. I knew things could not be like this forever though and that life is not dragons and moondust and I could not always fly, so I leaned forward and whispered in the dragon’s ear, “goodbye.” I let go and fell backwards, sliding off it’s tail. The only things I heard as I fell was rushing wind and the howls of my distraught dragon. My only thought was that people should be allowed to fly too. I have to learn on my own, be the dragon and not depend on them. Turn my skin into wings became the mantra in my head. I fell and fell and fell, the world getting closer and closer. My body felt like it was going to be ripped in two, but I kept spread out and kept

I remember the first time I flew in an airplane. My eight-year-old self looked out the window of the terminal I was taking off from, astounded by the large size of the vehicle. Worried, I thought to myself how could something that big fly with so many people? Yet, as the plane took off my worries became excitement. Not only was this my first flight, this was the event that marked the start of my new life, my takeoff from Vietnam to America.

Merryfield examines what is global and international education. She states that educators most work to promote cultural pluralism, interconnections, and international competition. This article is important because it discusses how global education should be presented in a content specific manner in order to maximize its

There was once a little boy who had a dream of flying. He would always see planes, helicopters, birds, and flies, fly by his windows. He lived in an apartment building in New York city with his mom and pet cat named Brownie. The boy’s mom never let him outside or have any friends. She would lock the boy in his room with food and water while his mom went to work.

Ever since I was young, I have always been interested in flight. Flight gave me the idea that I could be free to travel the air and wander in any direction. The sky seemed limitless at that age and the limitlessness is what drew me to Peter Pan. As my mother would read to me, I imagined Peter taking my

“In 2006 to 2007, according to the data compiled by the Institute of International Education, 582,984 students from all over the world were enrolled in American colleges and universities in a wide range of fields” (Carter, Paragraph 2, 2008). The United States has the highest number of students who are coming to study abroad than any other countries. Each year, the number of international students coming to the United States to obtain degrees is increasing by thousands, and home countries of these students are primarily India, China and Korea, all located in the whole different continent. But what are the motives of students who are crossing the sea to study? Their goal of studying abroad is to experience diversity and to adapt attitudes

The Cultural aspects of international business course has helped me to discover new perspectives and taught me to look at things through

I am shock by what I am seeing now. I find myself flying in the middle of the boundless sky like an eagle. The beauty of the earth is all under my eyes now. I can see the greenish forests, the giant mountains, the empty lands, and the busy cities that are far away. But the most beautiful thing is the blue sky itself where I am in. Suddenly the next moment, I was standing on the roof of a 100-stories tall skyscraper while enjoying my expensive wine and the landscape of the city. When I look down, although I am scared of heights, I see the miniature of pedestrians and cars that are moving around. Travelling in an imagination world is probably the most joyful thing to do in the life. I don’t where I will be next yet, but it will come to my mind when it is the right time.

Once when he was attempting a high-speed dive he crashed into a cliff wall. Physical pain along with mental pain caused him to stumble. He heard a voice in the back of his head telling him to just give up and that learning to fly wasn’t worth the trouble. He almost listened to the voice, but instead got up and tried again.