Personal Narrative: My Experience At Harris-Stowe

College is a time for students to come and find themselves, to get a higher education and to meet new and exciting friends. Just from the first semester here at Harris-Stowe I believe I have done so. My college career actually started in the summer with the Summer Math and Science Academy here at Harris-Stowe. I also moved in a week before everyone else did for soccer pre-season. Right off the bat, Harris-Stowe was a culture shock for me. In the summer math and science academy, I was the minority. I wasn’t just the only white person out of twenty-three students, I was the only white girl. That first week was really hard. It was a culture shock. In high school there was black people, so it’s not like I’ve never been around black people before. I actually dated a black guy for …show more content…
I started going out and hanging out with my roommates and making tons of soccer friends. I wasn’t in my dorm as much and I finally felt a little more comfortable. I made a lot of foreign friends. My roommate was hanging out with one of the boys on the soccer team and he was really good friends with the three Brazilians on the men’s soccer team. So one day my roommate asked if I wanted to go with her to their house and hang out, and I said sure. Ever since then we all hang out and sit at the lunch table together. When I hang out with them it is always fun to listen to them talk in Portuguese. I tried to learn a little but it’s hard to learn another language. We all became really good friends and it was fun to see them at the girls’ soccer game cheering us on, and we did the same for them. With my social life together, my school life was good too. I was learning a lot from my English teacher and still am. I’m excited to go to his class now. He as a pretty good since of humor. My math class, which consists of three students, including myself, and my math teacher is a fun class to. Most of this semester is a review but I still am always