Personal Narrative Essay: The Immigrant Son

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The Immigrant Son

The day has finally come, which I wish it didn’t. The day that I have to leave everything I have in my life back there. I was born in a small town in india and grown up in hyderabad. My life was just boring. My parents wants me to be a “nerd” while I wanted to enjoy with my friends. When I got home, My mom and dad would be an inch away from my face that, I could see the sweat running down on their cheeks and I could feel and hear the sound of their breathing, scolding me, when I hang out with my friends for way too long.
I was trying to be the best at everything and I felt like I was doing it right. I don’t say that I am the best but I was pretty good. I didn’t care about life or my future, I was just enjoying every moment. I was kind of a disappointment for my parent, over time I tried harder and harder and succeeded in changing it, I changed my way of living for every grade I changed. We all have some days that we can never forget. so , one of them is the day that I found out I and my family are moving to U.S. I returned from school and I saw my mom sitting on the sofa with a happy face, I have never seen her this happy. So I left my backpack in my room and ran with eager to my mom to know what’s up.

I waited for her to complete her call and after like a minute or so she completed the call with that tired sigh.
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I was scared and didn’t know where to go. I was in school by 8:30am wandering around the quad area knowing nothing about what to do and where to go. Everything was silent (because I was late) I didn’t know why. I was lost like a kid lost in a fair. Just then I saw this girl from the orientation day and thought that I would be in the same class as she is. They were carrying chem textbooks, so I ran to library with sweat all over my body and asked them what I need to do. Thank god and Ms.Grijalva, she printed me out my schedule and told me where to go. And I finally entered MY FIRST

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