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I started watching English news, movies, read magazines, read all sort of English related book like, “English learning For Dummies” and suf internet for online English Tutor. Having a ELL teacher help me through my hard time helping me to learn English and doing good in school. After knowing how to speak and communicate in less than 2 months my life had become much easier. Now I am being able to communicate with people not that fluent as then can but try my best to speaks fluent as them and be able to make new friends. Also I am a helping hand to my parents as they do not know how to speak English. My sister help me a lot because she was older then me and was better than me in English so she help me through my study . Now slowly adapting the American style of living in some aspect of my life. English was a very challenging language and I had a very difficult time learning it, however, my hard work did pay off when by the end of first quarter my GPA was

Since I moved to Toronto, I’ve been getting a lot of questions like “where are you from?” or “where is home?”. I guess the question is only natural since Toronto is a big city where people from all over the world gather. Whenever I get such questions, I tell them that it’s hard to say since I’ve stayed in multiple places and had countless places that felt like they were home and not. To me home has always changed, home was always changing based on the circumstances, or the chance to find a better place. As much as I would have wanted to feel a ‘rootedness’ in one place by staying put, I realized later on that just because I stay there for a long time does not necessarily mean home. Country to country, province to province, city to city, explaining

My high focus and dedication in the classroom helped me to succeed in learning the language. Also, even by just watching Sponge Bob on television somehow helped me learn the language just as well. As with the cultural problem, I managed to overcome it with my strong will and character as I broadened my horizons as I met newer and better friends that understood my pain and helped me go through with

I will have to overcome separation from family and friends. I could get homesick by trying to overcome this obstacle. This would relate to how Odysseus has to leave to go to war for his kingdom with a few other men. Odysseus has to leave the day after his son is born to fight in the Trojan War for his family and kingdom, therefore he had to leave his kingdom and most importantly his wife. Odysseus tells his wife if he isn’t back before his son grew a beard for her to promise to move on. This situation is much like mine; I would have to leave my family in order to travel the world , it would be a hard obstacle to overcome, distance from family could keep me from going. I can not let my separation anxiety keep me from pursuing my

Become a regular somewhere. You’ll probably move at some point in your 20s, and moving to a new city is tough, tough, tough. I’ve learned that one tiny way to feel more at home is to make the same place a routine stop, whether it’s a café,

they feel depressed, uncomfortable, or homesick. Although they feel that way, most of them such

The sense of kinship and familiarity one previously had is gone and replace with crippling loneliness and fear of a new,strange world. Moreover, one’s own flesh and blood can tear the feeling of family and introduce even more isolation due to immigration. In that manner Sara Smolinsky not only lost the love and affection of her father and even cursed her,”I give up.How came you ever to be my child?I disown you.I curse you.May your name and your memory be blotted out of this earth.”(Doc C) Loneliness is the only reality that

Over the past seven years my family and I have moved to many different countries and we have never stayed in one place for very long. In the year 2009 my family moved to Costa Rica, in 2010 we moved to Guatemala, then in 2011 we moved back to the US, then in 2012 we moved to England, and finally in 2015 I moved by myself back to the US. I really struggled with the moving to different countries so often, the biggest struggle I had was I never felt like I had a permanent home. It also felt like every time I finally put down roots, they just got ripped up again. On the other hand, one of my best friends, who also moved to many different countries all over the world, never struggled with it and loved the adventurous aspect of moving. For the longest

Matthew Goldberg Unequal Childhoods Essay SOCI308 “Unequal Childhoods” Unequal Childhoods” by Annette Lareaus brings forth ideas and issues in relation to class, race, and family life. The topics bring a unique perspective in how individuals look and perceive different social classes. Lareaus also talks about the childrearing approach and how they relate to classes in ways such as concerted conservation and accomplishment of natural growth. These approaches are different in the way they affect and show certain classes.

Living in one place for so long feels different than what I remember when I was younger. I do like having a consistent group of friends and living in the same home for a long time, but I miss moving around and seeing new places a lot.

Moving happens frequently, about fourteen percent of Americans move each year. It doesn’t seem like a lot, but it is about 46,778,674 American citizens, that’s each year alone. If it hasn’t happened consider yourself lucky. If you’ve never personally moved, chances are probably know someone who has. The struggles that come along with moving can start off calm and fine but the reality of what is being left behind sets in and just realizing that everything has changed. I’ve moved three times, each time to completely new locations, new places I’ve never seen, and new faces I hadn’t met. The first time I moved it was life-changing. I was moving from the suburbs of Coppell, Texas to Albany, Georgia.

Every year there comes a time where Muslim’s across the globe come together and fast from sunrise to sunset, this year felt like a drag, I had summer school, boyfriend issues and my grandparents had just retired and started living with us. My family consists of 4 girls, a mom, a dad and my grandparents all living in a detached 4-bedroom home. So one can imagine the level of privacy I felt on a daily basis. The month of Ramadan had just started and my level of understanding for this holy month was zero, nadá, nothing basically. I never understood why fasting was so holy, like I understood, yes; It was so we would be thankful for what we’ve been blessed with but I didn’t get why I had to fast, like why did I have to starve myself the whole day for 30 days in a row. I didn’t get the huge issue behind it. Everyone in my family made a big deal about it except me. Since this year my grandparents had retired, my dada aka my grandfather had decided to fast for all 30 days, none of us supported his decision we all told him it wasn’t healthy for him to be doing 17 hour long fasts, but obviously him being the big, strong headed man he was; he ignored all of us and did exactly what he felt he wanted to. Mind you him being the alpha of our pack he helped everyone grow; in our culture since he was the eldest no one could go against his wishes. Back in the day He was the vice president of a university back home called sir Syed university of engineering and technology. He came from a

So if I did move to New York it is possible that I might get the slightest bit homesick but it wouldn’t really be about missing my literal home, it would be more about missing friends and family. I think the whole travel aspect of it is why I would like to move to New York. I absolutely love travelling. I have also never been to America before so I would see the whole thing as a big adventure really. Experiencing new things, pouring myself into a whole world that seems strange and wonderful yet at the same time completely

I did not speak English nor did I get along with my family. I felt so alone with only my sister to talk to. It took me a year to adapt to this new life. I started making friends and getting along with my family which made the process easier.

Living far from home, even for a short period of time, can be really hard at the beginning. We have to remember that all changes are difficult, but they are