Personal Statement for Energetic Students Entering Hong Kong University

I was not always in love with life as I am today. I was ashamed of who I was. Not ever the type of girl to look at the mirror, as a matter of fact, the thought alone repelled me. I was most definitely not the type of girl to keep journals or write in them, but lots has happened in the past year and I have so much to say. I’ve been slipping back to the past and I cannot seem to move forward. I’ve been told expressing how I feel helps then I won’t have so much regret. Therefore here it goes.

The purpose of using a diary system is mainly to be organised. If you did not have diary systems meetings would be near to impossible to plan and you wouldn’t know where staff were if they were out of the building. A business wouldn’t run properly if this was the case, having an up to date diary will keep you and other members of staff accessible to all relevant people. Diary systems help make sure that people are able to communicate efficiently.

First of all, I am a Taiwanese American from Dallas, but I’ve also been raised in several different places than where I come from, including China, Spain and the UK. Having lived in these places made me both culturally and socially diverse. On one hand, I’ve experienced different educational systems, food, languages and knowledge about different ways of living; on the other hand, I’ve learned how to quickly adjust into new environments and thus interact with people from all over the world.

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Keeping some sort of diary or journal about your daily thoughts and experiences is at times said to be therapeutic and help the mind unwind. It is also important when it comes to looking back and seeing how time has changed the not only a persons thoughts and actions but the worlds. This is what is seen in Aaron Thomas’s: The Caribbean Journal of a Royal Navy Seaman. Documenting a year at sea is obviously time consuming, can take a great toll on a person but most importantly can give a great deal of information about the person as well as the time period and geographical location.

keeping a diary for recording my daily life because it is a good way to practice my

When I came to America from China at age 16, everyone around me appeared to be different. However, I didn’t just talk to my Chinese friends. I pushed myself outside of my bubble; I tried my best to make friends with American students, while I still maintained good relationships with my Chinese friends. America is very different from what I expected, everyone speaks so fast and unclear; it almost made English a completely different language from what I had already learned. As I was trying to make friends, I realized that Chinese culture had made me different from Americans; things that I was curious about as a Chinese person were very private to American students. For example, in America, people won’t mention what their parents’ jobs are when they meet someone for the first time.

Whilst if I was in China, I would be focused on education, and preparing for my future job, and then focusing on how I am going to live the rest of my life. In relation, when I was younger, I was taken to a private preschool and Kindergarten, in hopes that I am able to build a stronger foundation for when I enter the first grade. As I grew older, and first grade came near, my family moved from one city to another to enroll me in a better elementary school. From this, part of my educational background grew. Throughout the years, we would fly to China to visit family and I was then exposed to the different cultures and was able to compare the living standards and cultural aspects between the United States and China. Consequently, my mom’s side is Tai-Shan and my dad’s side is Shanghainese. On my mom’s side, I have ancestors from Guangzhou, Tai-Shan, Beijing, and Hong Kong. On my dad’s side, I have ancestors from Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong as well. I know that these cities are all within China and have rigorous living conditions, intense education systems, and a place where money is everything. From this, I can say that this does influence my identity, as I am exposed to these cultures and ideas quite often. Being Chinese, and the first generation to be here in the United States, my parents are still quite traditional. Through that, the idea of who I am is influenced and altered, because there are ideas that I

I interviewed a girl from the northeastern part of China who came to America to pursue her education, her name is Ruyi Shen, as you can guess there are many differences from China and America, before she came to America she lived in an apartment block with her parents but in China this is a normal occurrence considering most of the people in China live in apartments. She is an only child, because the child laws were not changed till after she was born, which now they can own two kids. She is expected to get good grades, respect her elders (grandparent, elderly people, etc.), and was to go to university from a young age. When she came to America she had to become her own person because students in China wear the same clothes as each other and

This is Shuchang Lou. I come from Nanjing, which is one of the biggest and oldest city in China. I am the single child in my family and that is a common phenomenon in new generation nowadays. My parents always encourage me to try different things, meet different people, learn different culture, and live a different life. I used to be a nurse in China for four years. My work is to take care of cancer patients in hospital day after day. My life was repeated every day. Now, I am in here in America! This is my adventure!

I wish what I know now about keeping a diary from when I was little was not to write about which boy I had a crush on, or what cool backpack someone brought in on the first day of school. At the same time, I like to reread about how I was as a child and what my insights were on everything I was writing about. Now that I am older, keeping a diary is somewhat unheard of now. As Joan says in her writings, “Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether…” I interpret that with current events and how the surge of electronics devices has made diarizing almost obsolete.

The diary form is great! It lets a reader feel, and see how characters interpret things themselves. The form lets dialogues take place, it lets many people altogether tell a story in first person, and it lets a reader be able to see densely detailed scenes through a person that isn't being a fool talking to him or her self. The diary form of

American teachers and parents hold different points of view in terms of the way of encouragement from Chinese teachers and parents. In the U.S. teachers and parents are very kind that they often encourage students in a positive way. That is, if I do poorly in a test, they would say, “Hey, don’t be frustrated. You will do well in the next test!” If it is in China, the scenario would be: “Don’t dream to hang out with your friends during weekend until you do well in the next test! This kind of scenario is quite familiar to me. The last time that this situation occurred to me was just less than three years ago when I was a high school freshman in China. Here’s the thing: I got 95 out of 100 in a history exam and was so prepared to be praised and even awarded by my parents as soon as I got

I was born in Hong Kong and moved alone to Taiwan to live with my grandmother when I was 12. I struggled to learn the language, Mandarin, and to live and learn alongside children from a very different culture. I was like some alien from outer space in Taiwan – generating stares but not acceptance. However, by being open minded about both my potential and the potential of this little island, I succeeded in adapting. I spoke back to the television set to practice Mandarin; I read books and watched videos to learn Taiwan's culture, history, and literature; and I helped my fellow classmates in our

I remember myself sitting near a little block with letters and my mother teaching me the name of each of them. She starts to sing me a song to help me to memorize the alphabet. It is so funny singing the ABC song. At that instant, the door opens, and my father enters the room. That is the first thing carved in my memory, and each time when I think about it, I conclude that we are the best family in the world.