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My Experience In My Life

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I was born in Pakistan but I have lived in the U.S most of my life. When I came to the United States I was two years old. I have gone back to Pakistan only a few times, but my most recent visit was in 2012 when I had just finished 8th grade. One of the fun parts was traveling, because it is always fun to go to different airports and cities, but once you were inside of the plane there wasn’t much to do on the long flights. The flight was 12 hours long so I ended up sleeping a lot to make time go by. It was also pretty hard leaving my parents because I had never done that for such a long period of time. Going to Pakistan I had a lot of good and bad experiences. One of the fun parts of going there was getting to meet all of my relatives …show more content…

It takes a lot to memorize this much and if you skip one day you will lose the mentality that you are there to memorize and that isn’t good because then it will be really hard. Although I memorized around 50 chapters, I did not get to finish it all in one year. The schools in America and Pakistan have some similarities and differences. The most common similarities are basic rules such as not talking during bad times, or being respectful to others. One of the big differences was that if you do something wrong you get beat by the teacher. It was like a punishment for everything. A Few of the weapons they used were sticks, cut hose pipes, or just a shoe. There were also other other punishments like doing wall sits, where you would sit against the wall but with no chair underneath. Those were pretty painful too because it was for long periods of time, and your legs would start to camp up. A full year had passed so I now left the school. The last thing I did before flying back was meet all of my relatives one last time. This was really sad because I had no clue of when I was going to see them again. Finally, the day to fly back to America came. Although I was happy to see my family again, it was very sad to leave all of my relatives. Flying back was relatively fun, because I already knew what I was expecting like the long 12 hour flights. Since it was the second time flying back it felt like a really quick flight. I ended up having a really fun time in

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