What Are My Goals

I am currently on my fifth semesters, which means I would be graduating very soon and yet, I am still nervous about life after college. Of course, I have my goals and objectives I want to achieve. I grew up in a Chinese household where my parent immigrated from China with hopes of a better life and for their children to achieve the American Dream. This add a lot of pressure on my siblings and I because my parent would work long hours and expect us to excel in our classes.
As a child, I wasn’t the best student because my english was very limited because Chinese is the primary language at home. It was even harder growing up because I grew up in a neighborhood with non-Asians and the majority being hispanic. The school would randomly teach spanish and the other children would understand but I would sit there with a dumb look on my face. Children can be very harsh because they would bully and hurt others that aren’t like them. This force me to become the person I am and wish I was when I was younger. I can now speak freely in front of people and stand up for myself because I no longer care what they think of me. If I were to be bully now, I know who to go to compare to my young self that hope that people would change. I only saw the good in people but I quickly learn that not everyone is whom they claim to …show more content…
I join choir, which required me to step out of my bubble and be on stage and sing in front of the whole school. It was frightening but I kept it together because I know I need to change in order to survive. I guess you can say it was the turning point in my life because that was where I felt like everything changed. I managed to make good friends because I was very lonely during the first year of high school. I had someone to hang out and go shopping with while learning how to properly communicate with another human