Coming to America and adjusting to a new culture was not easy for me or for many people who move completely to a strange country, especially when there is a language barrier. The reason why it was difficult the cultural thing in America, learning the new language, learn how you can travel from place to place not knowing people around you was very difficult to handle. Especially where I grow up everyone knows each other we all one community. To come from that culture back ground and to see how in America is very hard for us. Eventually we kind of understand and get used to it. When I left my friends and my extended family back in Eritrea in 1997 and moved to the United States. The first year was the hardest time for me, I missed everything that
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I am the oldest child of eight. My parent were very strict, they will not let us hangout with a wrong people they make sure we all go to church and stay home get everything in need to be done finish it on time. And they are the reason we are here. I went to high school immediately after we arrived in the United States. Even thought it was difficult, after four years I finished. My plan after high school was to continue to get an education, which meant going to college. It was not hard to decide what I wanted to do or what my major would be. I loved math so I want to study anything to do with numbers. When I come to the state, I was strangling with a lot of school work. The only one I was good at was math, I got all A’s. Because I was so good in math class I use to help my teacher with grading other student homework or …show more content…
Just keep working.” They said, “…In this country it’s all about money, think about it. The reason people go to school is to make money, you are already making the money.” I thought about what that person said. I brushed them off. So I continued to talk about something else but the of course the words the person said continued to play in my mind. I heard similar things from someone else also and it did not help me to motive myself to continue with
I am the oldest child of eight. My parent were very strict, they will not let us hangout with a wrong people they make sure we all go to church and stay home get everything in need to be done finish it on time. And they are the reason we are here. I went to high school immediately after we arrived in the United States. Even thought it was difficult, after four years I finished. My plan after high school was to continue to get an education, which meant going to college. It was not hard to decide what I wanted to do or what my major would be. I loved math so I want to study anything to do with numbers. When I come to the state, I was strangling with a lot of school work. The only one I was good at was math, I got all A’s. Because I was so good in math class I use to help my teacher with grading other student homework or …show more content…
Just keep working.” They said, “…In this country it’s all about money, think about it. The reason people go to school is to make money, you are already making the money.” I thought about what that person said. I brushed them off. So I continued to talk about something else but the of course the words the person said continued to play in my mind. I heard similar things from someone else also and it did not help me to motive myself to continue with