When I Came To America

Coming from a Mexican immigrant family I have learned to recognize since a very young age that because of the status that my parents are placed in they cannot pursue a better future like the one I want. I have been given the opportunity to challenge myself with obtaining a higher education than just high school itself. My parents have demonstrated to me through their hard work that I have to value this opportunity unless I want to end up with low paying job. My life long dedication comes from seeing my parents make sacrifices in order for my education to continue.

Moving to America, was a difficult transition for me. I had come to the realization that I wasn’t going to see my friends any time soon back in Iran and that was hard to overcome at a young age. I was alone as a child because my siblings are a lot older than me, and my parents’ had the challenge of starting over because they had left everything behind in Iran. However, that wasn’t going to get in the way of me succeeding in school. I have always been a fast learner, by the age of eight I had already learned four languages. Also, I was voted most improved by my classmate every year I was in Elementary School. This might not seem like a big achievement, but as a young student in a new country it was a huge motivation boost for me to improve every

Every human being on this earth has had different predicaments that have occurred in their life. All in which, have modified their perspective on ideas, future decisions, or past experiences. The lessons that life throws at you teaches you who you are and reminds you where you come from. My experiences have taught me to enjoy the advantages I have in life and to establish my dreams because my parents immigrated here from Mexico earning their residency, just so my siblings and I can have a chance at a good life. Since my parents gave me a chance to dream and make it real than that’s what i will do.

Since I came to America, I made great progress not only with foreign languages but also with my adaptive capabilities. From what I saw, read, and talked with my friends, I realized that I am improving more and more. In the past two years, I learned a lot more here. This experience not only broadens my view but also enriches my life. It changed my life for the good.

The reason I came the United States is for study. Same as millions international students, I choose American as a place where I attend college, there are two reasons make me made this decision. The first reason is that America has one of the best higher level education in the world. United States not only has best universities of the world, but also the whole nation’s universities have a better academic performance than rest of the world. So that I came to America for study in order to enhance myself. The second reason of I came to America is the competition in my country – China is intense. In the past year, there are 765 million students graduated from college, since the population of college students is super large, find an idea job in China

When I first came to the United States of America, that's like in "sticky situation" for me.

Ever since I was a young child, my parents always told me to try my best in school, they always told me this for the reason that they never had the opportunity to have a good job because they never finished school. This event is shaping me to care a lot regarding my education. In addition to that, another event that has shaped me to become the person I am today is that since my parents don’t have good paying jobs they have to work hard to take care of me and my siblings this event has caused me to become a hard working person and to seize all opportunities to live a good life because I don’t want to struggle like my parents.

My parents raised me in a small town in the Philippines. We are not wealthy, but my parents provided us more than we need. In my country, if a family can eat three times a day, they are not considered poor. That is why some people there tend to leave the country for them to support their families. Since I was a child, going to America is one of my dreams. I immediately took the chance when my parents allowed me to study here. At first, I am so excited but as time goes by, I felt the sadness of being away from my family and friends. That is not enough reason for me to give up. I will become successful here in America because I am not afraid of failures, I am self-disciplined and lastly, I have set goals in

My γιαγιά , Catherine Fotiou, was Born in 1948, Rhodes Greece on the 26th of July. She was one of four children she had an amazing life journey across a big sea to a foreign land she had never seen before. She still remembers the sound of the wind, hitting the sails of Kirina. She had Migrated to Australia in 1951 by boat across the Atlantic Sea from her motherland home, to the foreign “Australia”.

Before I come to Canada I lived in Turkey for full five years. I had some good, but mostly bad memories of life in Turkey. The people who live in Turkey can sometimes be so mean and raciest. Once I was at the park with my friend Sara who was a quiet and a calm girl that was from my country. Sara was a friend who I would call my sister. I was on a swing with Sara that a Turkish girl wanted to use. She looked around seven years old and had dark hair and I was nine years old at that time. It wasn’t too long before I saw an angry woman walking toward me; I got scared and told Sara " I wonder why she is so angry." The first word that came out of that angry woman's mouth was " All of you come from other countries and use the swings that our children are supposed to use." I got really upset, I felt a sword just went through my heart. I wanted to tell her that for us to live in her country we pay her government monthly. But, I didn’t say anything and ran to my mom immediately. I went to my mom and started talking like a radio that wouldn’t stop. My mom shook her head and told me "It's okay." And offered me a ice

Since I came here my whole world change, the education in United State was different place to live and different language too. I had to start from the beginning . Math,science and history were a challenging classes for me, because in Spain were different than United States and the language was different too I used to lived in a city when all my classes were in other language I only used to speak Spanish with my family and some other friends. The most difficult class when I came to West New York was math even that I used to like math but when I came here I started to hate it because the way that I was used to it was wrong here. The problem was that I had to show work and they saw my work they told me that how did I did it that the way was weird and I had to learn that way that they do or they will give me a bad grade so I learned it was difficult but I did it. Science is my favorite class I think that is interesting to learn about it, but in middle school I had to study a lot to pass the class because I did not what were a lot of the vocabulary words. History was difficult but not as much that were math

A family trip to the sister family in US, I learned something valuable, US. The superiority of life and the education system, while staying in US. I learned that US. Education system is one of the best in the world, and I wanted to study more. Of course, while I’m studying, I wanted to see my children to become a competent person in US. Education.

What’s the one thing that your parents always tell you? Get an education. We have heard it over and over again. You need a good education to get anywhere in this world. An education is the one thing my parents made sure that my brother and I had. They made sure we were at school on time everyday and ready to learn. My parents want me to have the best education that I can, but going to school in America is anything but the best.

There were a lot of situations and experience that have shaped me to the man I now. This can be attributed to where in from. Although I was born in Puerto Rico, my parents are from the Dominican Republic. Due to this fact, I have been exposed to these two distinct cultures which have helped me gained value lessons. One of the lessons that I learned was that we need to face some struggles in order to value what we have and the opportunities that may come once in life. I have always appreciated the sacrifices that my parents have done for us. For instance, I have seen how my parents struggle when I was living in Puerto Rico. This was due to my parent’s immigration situation. My mother had to work cleaning houses from early in the morning until night while my father worked in construction sites and other jobs that were not permanent or pleasant. They work so hard, just to offer my sibling and I the education that my parents could not receive from their parents. When I was attending school in Puerto Rico, I have to face sometime discrimination from some of my peers. Because of the misconception that Dominicans are stealing Puerto Rican jobs, they are often targets of racial discrimination. This is later on passed down to their children. However, that did not stop me from making good friends and doing my school work. Moreover, this did not diminish my interest in learning because my teachers were there to encourage me not give up. Also, the kids that discriminating against me,

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.