Personal Narrative: My Experience In High Schools

High school in the United States was a good experience for me in terms of education and how well I did in my classes compared with the bad grades I used to get in my home country, Peru. However, my experience as a high school student in Peru was more fun and memorable since I used to fool around a lot with teachers and classmates and never paid attention in classes. As a result, I would always get kicked out of class by teachers for distracting other students. So I did not have good grades. I have changed a lot since I came here and become more mature. When I came to this country and started school, I focused more on my classes since I needed to learn English. I had no other choice but to pay attention. Since I did not speak any English I felt that some of the people at Fairfield Ludlowe High School …show more content…
My only option was to focus on studying, and slowly I started to have good grades in my classes. This was a good experience for me because I learned a lot; the negative part of my experience in high school was that I didn’t have many connections with my classmates as I would have liked. This happened for several reasons. First Fairfield Ludlowe high school was a very large school with little racial diversity. The second reason was the language. At first it was difficult for me to communicate with my classmates because I interacted mainly with other Spanish speaking students. As a consequence, I didn 't use my English as much as I should have. In my last year of high school, I made this crazy decision to move to New York. I was able to get out of Fairfield and experience a different view in New York. I moved to long island on September of last year and graduated from Commack High School. People in new York were much sociable and open-minded. I enjoyed being there more than Fairfield. I made good friends in a short period of time and that made me feel more