Personal Narrative: My Learning Memoir

My Learning Memoir I come from a city called Fuzhou, a middle-size city located in the southeast of China. There is a phenomenon that the Chinese always prefer boys over girls, especially in my hometown. My paternal grandparents and my father wanted a boy as well, whereas my mother gave birth to me, an unexpected girl, in 1997. My grandparents seemed not to accept that they got the second granddaughter after I was born. My grandmother made me keep my hair very short and brought me up like a boy before I went to the kindergarten at the age of three. Even though I was too young to know much about the differences between boys and girls at that time, I dreamed of long hair and pretty dresses like every ordinary girl.
When I was twelve years old, my parents got a divorce. They were always arguing about almost everything back then. After the divorce, my father gave the house, car, and my custody to my mother. He did not give us anything else, including the financial support before I reach the age of eighteen,which was what he was supposed to do. My mother met my father before she had a real full-time job, and she followed him to help him to build his business in Beijing, which meant, she never had her own career before. Without my father’s support, …show more content…
From elementary school to university, I’ve heard a lot of people saying that men are strong and women are weak, and I’ve studied about domestic violence happened to women and gender discrimination. In the past, I asked myself about the purpose of learning at school why did I decide to study abroad but I couldn’t find myself an answer. However, with time, I found out that learning,especially studying abroad can make myself better, to be more specific, more independent and stronger. I need to be a great person to achieve my goal and convince others that girls can also be