Cottey College is my desired destination to pursue higher education because Cottey is the place where a young woman, like myself, attends to study comprehensively to expand one’s perspective about the changing world, to grow as a woman and become a leader in society, to empower the next generation and to be empowered by other woman who has similar goals and come together to break-barriers. I want to use the knowledge gained at Cottey as a seed for me to bloom where I am planted.
I am a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines and a daughter of a Housekeeper and a Laundry worker from an island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, Maui. I come from a family where college education is not a priority. I was expected to come straight home …show more content…
One of the challenges faced between immigrant parents and their children is the different exposure of culture. For example, my parents were unveiled to the harsh reality of living in a third world country in an early age. Adjusting to the American culture was a different kind of challenge to them. While immigrant teens are still learning, calibrating to the American life was difficult, however, it is manageable. I started to feel as if I was living two separate lives at home, where my parents spoke two different dialects of Filipino to me and at school, where I spoke English to my teachers and friends. I would find myself constantly in arguments with my parents because of lack of communication and misunderstanding of one another’s lives. Although, I used my parent’s condemnation as a motivation instead of letting opportunities pass by because I did not allow other’s permission to decide what I can and cannot do in the right circumstances.
I became the Avid Via Individual Determination (AVID) Junior class president from 2015-2016 and Miss Maui Teen USA 2016 where I later on, Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2016 becoming the first girl from Maui to have won the state title and represented my state at the national pageant, Miss Teen USA produced by the Miss Universe organization and recognized as “Most Unique” in
I am a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines and a daughter of a Housekeeper and a Laundry worker from an island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, Maui. I come from a family where college education is not a priority. I was expected to come straight home …show more content…
One of the challenges faced between immigrant parents and their children is the different exposure of culture. For example, my parents were unveiled to the harsh reality of living in a third world country in an early age. Adjusting to the American culture was a different kind of challenge to them. While immigrant teens are still learning, calibrating to the American life was difficult, however, it is manageable. I started to feel as if I was living two separate lives at home, where my parents spoke two different dialects of Filipino to me and at school, where I spoke English to my teachers and friends. I would find myself constantly in arguments with my parents because of lack of communication and misunderstanding of one another’s lives. Although, I used my parent’s condemnation as a motivation instead of letting opportunities pass by because I did not allow other’s permission to decide what I can and cannot do in the right circumstances.
I became the Avid Via Individual Determination (AVID) Junior class president from 2015-2016 and Miss Maui Teen USA 2016 where I later on, Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2016 becoming the first girl from Maui to have won the state title and represented my state at the national pageant, Miss Teen USA produced by the Miss Universe organization and recognized as “Most Unique” in