Growing up I spent most of my childhood in Vietnam living an ordinary life. My parents were not risk-takers until they decided to quit their career as educators and move to the United States. Knowing that life in America will be challenging for immigrants‚ we mentally prepared ourselves to be fearless and get through every obstacle that is in our way. No matter how prepare we were‚ being a newcomer was frightful. When I first step foot on the land of promise‚ there was a mixed emotion suddenly rushed
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life in a certain way and a certain environment that forced me to adapt to that lifestyle at a young age. It made me realize that my perspective on life isn’t the same compared to others. Ten years ago‚ my family and I lived together in New York for about a year before my brothers had to move to our home country‚ Nepal. Throughout those years I learned to live as an independent and closed girl‚ however‚ at the age of fourteen‚ my siblings reappeared back into my life. From that moment on‚ I began to
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Back when I was five my parents got divorced why did they will because they would fight all the time and my mom was tired of it and she didn’t want us to hear it so they got divorced. After all the fighting and when they got divorced then we moved to a different location in emporia. We stayed at our house in emporia for a little while then after 2 months past we moved to Newton which was where all my family was on my mom’s side. In one whole year i’ve been to three different schools Reading Kansas
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just leave everything I knew and loved and start all the way over when my life was just getting started? It was a long 12 hour drive from Dallas‚ Texas‚ to little town Guntersville‚ Alabama and it gave me a long time to pity myself‚ hate my mom for moving me‚ get over the hate and be excited‚ and then be upset all over again. Alabama. Why Alabama? We had a choice‚ Alabama or Florida‚ and we chose here??? Me being a stubborn‚ bratty‚ over dramatic pre-teen‚ I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I
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Moving on is easy but what you leave behind is what makes it hard. Once you get to a certain age in your life you know you have to move on sometime. I know times are hard but you have to push yourself toward what you really want in life even if it means moving away from what you love. I remember one slight detail of the moment when my brother revealed he was ready to move away which was when he sat us down and said‚ "I think I am ready." That’s when we knew my oldest brother‚ Trae was ready
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The sky started to glow fiery red as the sun moved behind the mountains. My grandfather and I regularly walked during the evenings but that day we walked for a while. There was something different about that day‚ as though we didn’t want to go back home. We kept on strolling down the red brick road until we reached the famous Buddhist monument which was fairly close from our house. The monument had immense eyes that stared at everyone who walked past it. My grandfather explained to me that the eyes
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not impossible. Being the oblivious seven year old I was‚ I thought that the rest of the world lived just as good or better than we do here in America. While that may be true for many parts of the world‚ it isn’t for some‚ like Yemen. As we were packing our bags‚ my parents were telling me their memories of Yemen‚ all of which were good and only made me even more anxious to get to Yemen. We got
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Apparently‚ there is another language called Pidgin that everyone speaks so they can understand each other. How is everyone else doing over the past 10 years that I have been gone? I hope everything has been fine back in China. I think that moving to Hawaii has been the biggest mistake that I have ever made‚ and I regret all of my horrible choices on that day. The workers gave me a paper with some foreign language that I couldn’t read‚ but I signed it anyways‚ eager to move to Hawaii. They
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from Ohio to West Virginia during her teens. My grandfather moved from Ohio to California during his preteens. It was time for my big move‚ and as a result I grew into the person I am today. I was eleven when my father told me the news that I was moving. At first I didn’t believe him‚ and treated the move as a joke. It was when my dad took my brother
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bubonic plague and have been trapped in my cinderblock home for the past 58 hours. This flu has wrecked me despite how high my blood-OJ content is. Besides taking time to figure out just how many bugs are stuck in my lighting fixture‚ I’ve otherwise had about 57 hours to think. I’m a second semester senior‚ so that means I (erroneously) think I suddenly have tons of wisdom to share‚ even though I just learned that Café de Grasta even exists. When I was little‚ I was never okay with getting sick and with
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