Narrative Essay About Moving To America

Paige was his next-door neighbor. When he had moved to America he wasn’t sure how to start a life here, but Paige helped him get on his feet. She was a natural born citizen, so she didn’t have any experience with what it felt like to go through naturalization, but

In order to come to America Artina’s parents went to the ambassador that represent America and got a visa. She doesn’t remember much of the process besides the paperwork and the plane ride. She said it was really tiring. She feels connected to her old culture, but not

For the first time, she clearly saw what her life would have been like had her parents didn’t take the risk of leaving their home. Poverty was omnipresent, opportunity was non-existent and educated, hard working professionals were barely scraping by. Even the youth had nothing to look forward to. “Their faces all shared the same expression -- hopelessness. I would only see a small glimmer of hope in their eyes when they spoke of America, and how different their lives would be if they could live there.” says Cameron, “My parents risked everything because of hope. Hope for opportunity. Hope in the American Dream. Hope for their children. The risk they took is unparalleled to any risk I’ll ever have to face as an entrepreneur in America, and I felt so ashamed that I had allowed ignorant remarks shape my life and translate into resentment, especially towards them. The very thing that I viewed as a disadvantage growing up as a foreigner, which I let cripple me with fear and insecurity throughout my childhood and teenage years, was now my biggest blessing. My perception shifter, and it transformed into pride, a strong will, and an unrelenting ambition to succeed. My culture is unique and beautiful, and so am I, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to become anything I choose. My entrepreneurial instinct kicked into

Why do a lot of people leave their home country to live in the United States? Perhaps they wanted to get a better job. Or they had a troubled past back there and wanted to leave it behind. Maybe their country is just dull and uninspiring for them. But out of all the countries available for them to move to, why is it that the majority back then would choose to live in America? The answer is simple, they hope to fulfil the American Dream.

She express her dad how much she hated being called a Mexican. During those times Mexicans were portrait as an inferior ethnic group in America . As the author described it, her dad “ cringed ” after listening to her daughter’s feeling towards Mexicans. Instead of the camp she wanted to attend in Aspen, she was send to Mexico city. As she learned about Mexico, she was amazed on how beautiful mexico folklore was. Her dad wanted her to be proud of where she came from even thought she was not a mexican, as well as finding her own identity in

T and her family’s formidable journey to California was caused by unemployment parents and poverty during her childhood in Vietnam. For example, after the Vietnam War like many Southern Vietnamese, Ms. T’s parent decided to leave the country because there were no job available for them. Ms. T’s parent were only 18 years old when they had Ms.T. The problem of them being unemployed and poor led them to leave Ms.T in her grandparents care. During 1989, when Ms.T was six months old, her parent migrated to the Philippines where they stayed in a refugee camp for eight years. Back then, there was a program opened by the president that led people from the refugee camp came to America so Ms.T and her family left to the U.S in April 12, 1999. It was not a difficult decision to leave her home in Vietnam because she was really excited to be in the U.S. Ms.T and her family left behind all of her relatives in Vietnam including her grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousin. Ms.T and her family came to the U.S by airplane and she doesn't have any good memory. Her worst memory was can not getting used to American foods and she felt sad when thinking about her relatives in Vietnam. Ms.T and her family could only brought some clothes including some new outfits they bought due to the airline’s restrictions. Ms.T’s parent were given couple hundred of dollars when they leave the refugee camp in the Philippine, they also brought it here. As a result, Ms.T and her family safely flew to

she experience she grew to love America each and everyday and just felt homesick from

Her step-father’s job as a member of an NGO (Project Hope) had her and her family moving from country to country for years. She has lived in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Tunisia and several U.S. states.

Although she has long since adjusted to the American way of life, she hasn't forgotten about where she came from. She visits her parents often in Los Angeles and speaks her original language with them.

Notably, she doesn’t need to borrow money from anyone in order to pay bills. Also, we own luxuries that I know a great deal of low-income families can't afford. Accordingly she’s able to afford these commodities thanks to her understanding that if she was to have kids one day and raise a family she would need to attend and finish college. For this reason she went to college in the Dominican Republic and was able to come here and start a family.

She grew up in a mexican-american family and her dad only saw women to get married and have children. She said “ being the only daughter in a family of six sons forced me by circumstances to spend a lot of time by myself because my brothers felt it beneath them to play with a girl in public”.This shows how different families can be. Some parents would make the siblings play together but where there were six brothers against one girl i think she chose the safe route. Her story shows how she struggled to show her dad that she was more than just a girl that would get married and have children. She said that she's lucky her father thought she was only to get married. So that when she majored in something “silly” like english. She wrote most things for her father. “In sense everything I’ve written has been for him, to win his approval…” She was trying to show him what women can do other than get married and she did just that. Her story had been translated into spanish and she had him read it. He asked for more copies for the relatives. She showed through this that although her dad didn’t wholeheartedly believe in her she still preserved and made it happen. And she showed that people

Numerous days prior to her being at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital, Maria Luisa was in her hometown, Jaripo, Michoacán. It was a Sunday afternoon and Maria Luisa had just turned off the stove, where she had just finished cooking the popular Mexican soup, menudo (as it is apart of the Mexican tradition to cook and eat on Sundays). Her little brothers, Hector and Noe, had just turned on the 5 o’clock news. As Maria Luisa was pouring soup into 4 bowls for her mother, little brothers, and for herself, she overheard that there is a rising problem occurring in the United States where pregnant mothers (mainly) from Mexico and Canada, cross the border hoping to give birth in the United States, so their newborn will be born an American citizen. Seconds later, Maria Luisa took this risky opportunity into consideration, she then

language very well. I came to the United States and have done that for them. My children will deal with the same psychological trauma and feelings I went through. This feeling of disparity and hopelessness. It could seriously hurt my kids and I don’t want them to go through what I did. No young child should go through what I did.

Her life was different. Now, everything made sense. I understood why her mother said she was so grateful to us for running a free, week-long STEM camp for 40 kids around the area. She never thought Rayssa would even meet an American. That struck me as a peculiar statement. Why is it so amazing to meet someone just because they are from America? I realized in such a small and underserved town such as Pindamonhangaba, Brazil, where there is little to no traffic from outside, meeting people from places you dream about going to must feel like a step closer to your dream.

When she was just five years old, Diana Martinez came to the United States with her parents on hopes of living the “American Dream.”