Personal Narrative-Passed Fajita Bar

Hola burritos, today as I was scrolling through the vast and ever twisted Internets; I came across my boyfriend and future husband gracefully grazing the feeds of Instagram. Me and him grew up from afar and always found it hard to communicate our true feelings, but love waits! ........I'm kidding obviously, our relationship is deeply one sided. Although I'm sure he feels a very special thing missing.*me nigga* Anyways as Jaden does, he caused a little bit of a stir with the photo, exhibiting his further transcendence into androgynous fashion. With painted nails, a skirt, a flower so delicately placed in his hair, a beautifully chiseled torso, and an alluring caption of, "Just Come Here" I was pleased. I Like that he shows that masculinity

She is the first in her family to go to college, she is challenge with adapting to the college culture, and she feels out of place most of the time. “Students of color lack mentors who can assist them in successfully navigating the learning environment.” (Ortiz & Jani,

I was once again faced with the dilemma of adjusting to a new environment and making new friends. This time, however, things were easier as I now was fluent in two languages, knew more about whom I was, and the thought that everyone was new alleviated some of the tension I was feeling. Soon, I started gravitating towards classmates that shared my ethnic and racial background as well as those who were into Math, my favorite subject. The similarities we shared helped make our bond stronger and I felt that we had a genuine and strong connection. I felt understood by those within this circle and felt welcomed. Things, however, started to change when some friends started to engage in actions that I saw unbeneficial. They would cut class and tried to get others to do it as well. To be honest, in an attempt to satisfy my friends and my own curiosity, I cut class two or three times yet felt so strange doing nothing that I started to distance myself from them. Soon, I saw my circle closing as more and more girls started to do things that I wasn’t comfortable doing. I did feel as if I was alone but it wasn’t bad. Before long, I started to connect

I desperately ask the manager where are all of your golf balls? He replied right over here. So, i put that one back on the shelf. I Quickly scanned the rest of the selves to find some that had specific letters printed on the front of them l-I-B-R--A-R-Y.

I ignored my alarm clock for the umpteenth time and waited until the very last second to get up. I got dressed in my usual jeans and t-shirt and pulled my long brown hair into it’s usual french braid. I glanced at the clock and, as usual, realized I only had three minutes to get to the bus. I darted out of my small house into the warm sunny North Carolina sun, just stopping long enough to grab my usual sesame bagel with cream cheese that my mother laid out for me on the kitchen counter.

Open-mindedness. I allow myself to experience new ideas and thoughts while listening to my peers in school. With this attribute, I am able to benefit from others’ perspective. In summation, being open-minded to new experiences allows me to strengthen my character. Additionally, open-mindedness allows me to be understanding to new ideas and experiences and create an underlying sense of confidence.

We rode to the park and the creek as the sun’s last rays winked at us above the trees in the West. As we rode, I became increasingly silent, feeling the divide between the old and the new; between me and the people that I had loved, those that were the only people that made me feel truly accepted in my entire school career, came a growing divide. We can still talk, but the words have no meaning, we can still laugh, but the laughter feels fake. I am normally one to embrace change, and the adventure that comes with it; indeed my life right now is a far cry from dismissal, but oftentimes, I choose to look at the beauty of the past, and wish that nothing ever has to

So first off let me start off by telling you the basics: who, what, when, where and

Dining room table? Yep. Drapes? Yep. Relatively new wall-to-wall brown carpet? Yep. Lampshades? Yep. White walls? Yep. Piano? Oh, yeah.

On a cool Friday evening, walking into my favorite Bar with some friends from work. As soon as we walked inside, the vibe was exquisite. The air filled with laughter and the smell of the food on grill made my taste buds watered.

Today I have a competition. I am worried that I won’t be able to do well because I struggled with my bar routine. Other than that I am confident. I am warming up right now. Warm-up goes fast because everyone is doing something different at the same time. When march in came a round, we lined up and my coach came over and told us that this was the “hardest” part of competition. My teammates and I giggled at that joke because it was funny. After the march in, my team and I rush to get ready for our first event. We have to start on bars first. I am anxious about bars. Especially because we started on that first. I warmed up my bar routine and it look pretty good. I just have to compete exactly like I warmed it up. It is my turn to go. I am so nervous.

An influential reason why conational students spoke with people from their culture was because of the fear of rejection from their students of their own culture when mingling with those from another. Brown described the situation that one Taiwanese student who enjoyed conversing with other students was in, as Brown writes, “X said that he is here to mix with the British and other nationalities, not speak his mother tongue… He said that the rest of his Chinese class mates don’t like him, because he doesn’t hang around with them” (Brown, 2009, p.191). Therefore, jealousy is one of the primary emotions that exist in this context that can terminate a friendship. In an arena where friendship is based on loyalty, not only between person to person, but also a loyalty to a nation’s culture, any attempt to sway from group solidarity is viewed as disrespectful. Additionally, Beer and Gardner express that paradigmatic friendships are relationships where each party “not only knows this of the relationship, but also knows that the other knows it; this suite of interconnected characteristics means that friends can count on or trust one another, which thereby becomes relevant to their actions and strategies” (Beer and Gardner, 2015, p. 426). In this sense, there is a clear understanding why many international students are friends with those from their nationality – there is an automatic resonance between their emotions that cause an outpour of sympathy and empathy which call for affection

Not-So Fast Food Burgers, pizzas, chicken wings. Tacos, French fries, onion rings. Ice cream, donuts, cookies, cakes. Soda, chips, and chocolate shakes.

It was soon after my fourteenth birthday when everything had changed. People around me were becoming more quite, less friendly; I had thought I had done something wrong. It wasn’t unusual for people to go unnoticed at my school, though. It was a very tight knit community and when I entered, I was definitely viewed as an outcast and unwelcomed. Almost what had been happening those few days after my birthday. I had to go under an entirely new alias whenever I was at school, always finding ways to alter my appearance so that they wouldn’t know they were bothering a celebrity child. It was one day, two days ago, right before the end of my last day of middle school. That was the day that most everything had changed.

The first year at the university, all of the students was living on campus dormitory. It was not just a place to stay, but it was also a way for fostering academic and multicultural program. The program is intended to facilitate the students to adapt to college life, student world and hone soft skills, such as communication, organizational skills, and understand the diversity. There were four students in one room. Therefore, I had three other roommates. It was the first experience for me to live in another place for a long time besides in my own home and also shared a room with three other students. The intensity of understanding the diversity has improved had more interactions with almost everyone that represent the ethnic and culture from western to the eastern islands of Indonesia. I would like to say that this is an essential emotional asset that could bring unity on our campus and also develop our nationality. I learned that we need to help each other in joy and sorrow in order to build success, not just for the study but also to build relationships emotionally with others. I had my first girlfriend when I was on my undergraduate at the same university. This first romantic relationship was made me that when we want to be loved by someone, we also need to love them. In addition, we also have to accept our personal differences in order to maintain a relationship. While I was in undergraduate university, I had my very close friends. Since we came from different cities and