My Life : Life Is A Journey For My World

In 2011, my parents and I came to America. The choice that my parents made had benefited my academic career. I have a better education here and schools in America helped me become a better 2learner. Education is an important part of one’s life. Without a good education, not everyone can achieve their lifelong goals that want to achieve someday. When I was living in India it was much more different studying there. The teachers in India, would not be as tough as the teachers here. Some teachers do not give any effort in wanting to help their students succeed. Eventually, my parents decided to come to America, to get a good career and help me succeed . When I came to America, it was an escape from the education that I was having before.

Finally I landed in America and I met my american family. From here onwards there were better and worse moments, I gonna be honest, not all was like I expected. But all the best moments overcome the worst , I keep in my mind all the new people that I meet, all the cities that I traveled and all the new things that I learn. I never felt regressed to make the decisions of be a exchange student in America. I felt so lucky to make a new friends in the other side on my homeland who I gonna remember for the rest of my life. Also the feeling of homesick help me to realized me how lucky I am having the family that I have. I learn to deal with my problems without the help of my mom, and overcome the hard situations by myself. In these ten months I realized

America is known as the richest country in the world; so living here was many people dream including me. When I was nineteen, my family got the Visa to move to America. At that time, my mother was very frustrated that going here or not because we were having a satisfied life in Vietnam. However, my father, sister, and me were very excited that we could come to America the place that many people dream and called paradise. We thought that many people want to go there but they cannot so why we do not go when we have a chance. Also we thought our life would be happier and better than Vietnam. Consequently, my family came to the U.S since 2013 to start a new life. At the first time my family was very shock. There is nothing fun here because we did not speak English; and we were new comers. Houston was like a forest with many trees. Where are skyscrapers, people walking on the streets, or snow, which I saw in movies. For the second day we arrived Houston, my parents and me went to Vietnamese school to study the paper driver license test. On the time we wait to have our license. My father applied a job at an AC company.

In 2010, my life had a dramatic change. My parents told me that I would immigrate to the U.S. At that time, I felt lost. I wondered what the future would be like and what obstacles I would face. Yet, this feeling was faded away soon when I saw the beautiful night scenes of countries that the airplane passed. I learned that there were many things that I have never seen. Immigrating to another country would give me an opportunity to discover and explore more new things. Yet, life was hard for the first several months in the U.S. I needed to speak English and face a completely new environment. Although it took me 30 minutes to read a single page of textbook, I opened the

Long time ago, when I was little, my father used to say “Let’s go Cheetah!” for encouraging me like in the movie Tarzan. It was like an enchanting magic words that nothing can ever defeat me ; however, harsh fate was coming towards me. One day, my mom asked me if I wanted to study abroad in America and I thought it was a joke that my mom made up to scare me, since I was gradually getting myself involved deeply in the typical interminable middle school girls’ dramas. I carelessly responded, “Yeah mom, why not”, and journey to America began with few promises to: always try my best, contact with family often, and think before I act. When I arrived in America, I was confronted by different and new surroundings. The air in the airport smelled awkward and I missed my home country. Soon

Life is about decisions and choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of, some will haunt us forever. However they all impact our lives in some way or another. I found myself one day debating on if I should ask my father to move with him. I had been thinking about this for almost two years now, but I was just afraid of the consequences that might come from this decision. Since I have been thinking about it so long I finally decided to go for it.

When I was a child my father always came to me and told me a quote, but over the years I have changed it into my own and now I live by it everyday . “Tomorrow is a brand new day, and a gift from yesterday, if you’ve failed rise from your ashes and create your own path and leave a trail behind because you can not take others pathes to live your life, life is your adventure and what you make of it.” I have always loved life and the people that are in it, since i was a child i have had the biggest dreams of going and doing anything I wanted to be and that nothing was going to stop me. My success to that has been keeping to not only my quote but to my heart, and to succeed I have stuck to these things: being determined, encouraging others, and hardworking.

Growing up going to a Christian school it taught me a lot about the person I wanted to be a have now become. Experiencing life and incorporating the morales from the past is the biggest challenge of all. I felt like I always had faith as I have always believed in a higher power than myself. Living life through the lens of watching everyone you ever knew such as your parents, grandparents, exes and so forth all pass away; left me with confusion, frustration and more importantly I felt abandoned. I was able to close the last chapter in my life two years ago and something started to change in me. During all the chaos, I could not see all that was going on around me and I lost myself. I did not recognize the person I had become, the wife the mother, I could barely recognize her. I started to change the way I thought positively in October 2016. I knew I wanted more for my next generation, being that they have no family like I did growing up, I knew my husband and I needed to change our style of thinking and incorporate a strong foundation for our children and more importantly pave the road to a religious legacy that will last generation after generation.

College is coming to an end for me, and I now have to begin my journey in the real world. There have been many things that I’ve learned today that have helped groom me into what and who I strive to be in the near future. By being an athlete I had the opportunity to experience life a bit different from other college students. Being a student-athlete I was taught skills like critical thinking, immense problem-solving skills, original creativity, and well-rounded communication and ethical judgment. Although this wasn’t all taught to me on the court I strive to preserve these skills and make them apart of my daily routine during my journey.

Almost nineteen years ago, I began the journey of life. Because I had a tumultuous beginning, I started learning lessons immediately. I was a premature baby and I had to fight to survive. My parents were unsure if I would make it. They wondered what kinds of problems I might have. After a time in the neonatal intensive care, I came home to a very supportive family. Because my parents were so grateful to have a child and they had their own difficult journey getting me here, they cherished every moment with me; thus, begins my life lessons.

My life has not always been easy, but without it I would not be who I am today. I spent my early childhood in Apache Junction Arizona which is just twenty miles outside the city of Mesa. I lived with both parents, three sisters, and one brother. My parents fought a lot about my mother’s drinking and how it caused so much trouble for us all. My mother fought the most with my dad’s daughter Sarah. They both agreed to move to Illinois where they had family. My father had family in Chicago while my mother had family in Carmi. They agreed to let Sarah live with her friend’s family and stay in Arizona

To say that life has been one of constant motion is accurate. I have grown up many different schools, neighborhoods, and with people from all sorts of backgrounds. My environments have created much of who I am today. Through these diverse communities my values and morals have evolved over time. The way a certain population can contribute to shaping someone’s identity is crucial to their growth. “…neuroscientists are now discovering that at the cognitive level all three abilities – memory, location, and narration – are intimately bound up.” (Self np)  He’s saying that place and story are key factors in one’s identity.

As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.

However, my family’s history assured us that we could find happiness in our new home. As a child, my grandparents sent my mother from Iran to America to give her a better life. Her relatives were also sent away, causing me to have family all over the globe. I have visited family in Rome, France, Singapore, and all across the US. Seeing them working as biologists, writers, physicist, and artists has shown me that anything is possible and that passion in my work would help me through any hardships. So, I took

Without the support of my father and the drastic change in my life, I understood that the only way to improve my quality of life was to study and find the passion to which I was going to dedicate the rest of my life. After careful thought, I decided to move to the United States. Leaving my family, I came to this country in search of knowledge, contacts and “greater opportunities”. During these years, I have been confronted with many obstacles, but I have been able to resolve them thanks in part to my dedication. When it comes to achieving my goals, I find it in myself to push myself until that goal it met. I consider that there is no lack of opportunities for someone that believes in their capabilities and is aware that nothing comes without sacrifice, meaning that hard work and dedication are required in order to achieve goals.