June 2012, when I had to fly to america, leaving my grandmother in India. Her few sentences before I left were "If you carry your childhood with you, you never will become older". This touched my heart and made me realize that I am growing older. My fears of moving to a new country with unfamiliar traditions and an eccentric society, was unimaginable. Along with that, my family and I faced a lot of challenges. The challenges for my parents was their perpetual chase for a job and the linguistic provocations that they faced. Therefore my parents sent me and my sister to get good education for better job opportunities, so that we can fulfill our wishes. They didn 't wanted us to face challenges like them. This impacted me to help my family with
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I knew that this would be my biggest obstacle I would have to overcome. Now that I look back at my childhood life in India, I was totally dependent on my parents. I had no responsibility to carry on. I had ability to live with independence. I was served will all the facilities including have a servant to look after myself. Besides that my family spent time with me during weekend, Also, my sister managed to be an “A” student in her class, she helped me with my studies, encouraged me to participate in active with her during summer, and she face all my challenges to make life superior. I was given education from a renowned and an expensive school. I was assigned tutors for subjects I had difficulties with, and received hand on hand support to navigate me to a brighter future. My parents dream was that I become a successful individual, and make them feel proud of me. Similarly since childhood, I had a dream to become a nurse, so moving into a different country my parents gave me the opportunity to have a brighter future and faith that I would be the one to bring about that …show more content…
The environment and the people around me spoke different language. I tried making new friends, perhaps the peers around me couldn 't understand my British accent. Therefore, some of the peers ignored me and I felt invisible in the classroom. I also had to ideal with pressure, because I needed to source information about school education levels, school clubs and activities on my own. Because, my parents do not know how things work in my school. Also, my family became busy with their jobs so we couldn 't spend much time together. As the second semester approached, I became responsible of myself. I was not in need of having a tutors, in turn I helped my sister for her editing her college essay and studies. I also helped my family to learn simple English used in daily life. The doors finally opened for me, and I finally got involved in Marching Band: Color guard member and made good group of friends. Also, I saw myself accepted for a Key Club committee board member for historian, I felt great about myself. I saw this struggles as ladders and ledges to the mountain of success. I climb that mountain with ease, despite how deformed that mountain may be. So, as time passed, I felt there wasn 't a better place I could have moved
I knew that this would be my biggest obstacle I would have to overcome. Now that I look back at my childhood life in India, I was totally dependent on my parents. I had no responsibility to carry on. I had ability to live with independence. I was served will all the facilities including have a servant to look after myself. Besides that my family spent time with me during weekend, Also, my sister managed to be an “A” student in her class, she helped me with my studies, encouraged me to participate in active with her during summer, and she face all my challenges to make life superior. I was given education from a renowned and an expensive school. I was assigned tutors for subjects I had difficulties with, and received hand on hand support to navigate me to a brighter future. My parents dream was that I become a successful individual, and make them feel proud of me. Similarly since childhood, I had a dream to become a nurse, so moving into a different country my parents gave me the opportunity to have a brighter future and faith that I would be the one to bring about that …show more content…
The environment and the people around me spoke different language. I tried making new friends, perhaps the peers around me couldn 't understand my British accent. Therefore, some of the peers ignored me and I felt invisible in the classroom. I also had to ideal with pressure, because I needed to source information about school education levels, school clubs and activities on my own. Because, my parents do not know how things work in my school. Also, my family became busy with their jobs so we couldn 't spend much time together. As the second semester approached, I became responsible of myself. I was not in need of having a tutors, in turn I helped my sister for her editing her college essay and studies. I also helped my family to learn simple English used in daily life. The doors finally opened for me, and I finally got involved in Marching Band: Color guard member and made good group of friends. Also, I saw myself accepted for a Key Club committee board member for historian, I felt great about myself. I saw this struggles as ladders and ledges to the mountain of success. I climb that mountain with ease, despite how deformed that mountain may be. So, as time passed, I felt there wasn 't a better place I could have moved