Yahya Alhinai
ESL 320
October 14, 2015
Writing Assignment 2, Draft 2
Everyone wants to change for the better, so why I wouldn’t change? Change is the learning that make you adapt new things. The desire of changing for better is critical in all of us, so it’s natural to change or got affected because of missing home. Missing home has changed a lot of things in my life for the better since I moved to the US. One way my life has changed because of missing home is I rely on myself more now. When I miss home, I remember how spoiled child I was, like I was expecting other people to do what I’m supposed to do and that made me feel I have to change the way I live now. For example, when I was in my country I didn’t know how to cook anything, I was expect others do that for me. Also before I came here I didn’t know how to do laundry at all, why should I when I know that someone else will do it for me. I have never worked in a real job back then, even though many students in my country have a job. On the other hand, when I came to the US, all my life changed because I started to rely on myself instead of the people around me. So I started to cook food for myself, even though it wasn’t optimistically good at first and to wash …show more content…
When I remember home I tend to think about anything bad that might happen to the people I know and that made me care more about others. For example, the most thing that I have been concern about since I came here is not to see my grandparent ever again or what if anything happen to me family and I wasn’t there for them land that made me care about the people around me and make a good influence. Also, when I have that feeling of missing home, I try to be a good person by doing good things to anyone whether I know that person or not because you will never know that will happen in the future. Missing home encouraged me to be a caring