Without even looking, I knew Renz, my best friend, was watching me from the window of his house, all teary-eyed. He was like the brother I never had; I knew him since I was a small baby. Suddenly, I started thinking about all the family and friends I would never see again but I still managed to keep my composure. I was sitting in my grandfather’s car, ready to travel to the airport and move to the United States. What ultimately ended up breaking me was when we started driving. I tried to act calm at first, but as soon as I glanced over in my friend’s direction and saw him crying, I also became hysterical. I experienced various sad moments in my life so far, but this particular memory sticks out the most to me. It was the point in my life before
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Being from a foreign background, I related to a lot of the stories that were assigned to us. Throughout the various topics in the four units, I gained a better understanding of the different ‘borders’ and how it affected people, and I developed better writing and reading skills. I was born in the small town called Pateros in the Philippines and moved to New Jersey when I was around nine years old. Like I stated before, because of my background, I have some sort of insight on all the units. For example, the first unit “Colliding Spaces” introduces how two separate spaces can cause a separation or a border; the essay I wrote on this topic described the distinctions between America and the Philippines which caused a split between the two. On the second unit “Unsettling Voices”, …show more content…
English Writing 111 provided me with compelling subjects and issues with the modern world, and at the same time, improved my writing skills. Those included are problems with different languages and cultures, which in turn causes borders and issues such as “forced” assimilation and one sided views on others. Essentially, there are lots of different cultures of people in our world can cause complications. I have gone and lived through two different nations. I have experienced various obstacles in life because I was not an American citizen. I am limited in normal perks like traveling and most people treat me less seriously because I look like foreign. One day, in the near distant future, I hope human civilization somehow solves all of its problems and achieves world peace for
Being from a foreign background, I related to a lot of the stories that were assigned to us. Throughout the various topics in the four units, I gained a better understanding of the different ‘borders’ and how it affected people, and I developed better writing and reading skills. I was born in the small town called Pateros in the Philippines and moved to New Jersey when I was around nine years old. Like I stated before, because of my background, I have some sort of insight on all the units. For example, the first unit “Colliding Spaces” introduces how two separate spaces can cause a separation or a border; the essay I wrote on this topic described the distinctions between America and the Philippines which caused a split between the two. On the second unit “Unsettling Voices”, …show more content…
English Writing 111 provided me with compelling subjects and issues with the modern world, and at the same time, improved my writing skills. Those included are problems with different languages and cultures, which in turn causes borders and issues such as “forced” assimilation and one sided views on others. Essentially, there are lots of different cultures of people in our world can cause complications. I have gone and lived through two different nations. I have experienced various obstacles in life because I was not an American citizen. I am limited in normal perks like traveling and most people treat me less seriously because I look like foreign. One day, in the near distant future, I hope human civilization somehow solves all of its problems and achieves world peace for