I am an alien, an Italian immigrant who first learned how to change when he was eleven years of age.
I'm going to start off by saying that in Italy there is a scarcity of change, making personal development seldom welcomed. People remain in the same socioeconomic class as their parents; the son of a butcher is destined to become a butcher himself. People rarely change houses or move to new cities; a person is expected to live and die in the same small town. People are afraid to embark on new culinary journeys; an Italian is taught to only eat Italian foods, no exceptions.
As an Italian citizen and resident I was destined to live a rather common, unremarkable life. Although I was never too enthusiastic about change, when my dad announced that …show more content…
I was hit with the biggest changes right off the bat. New language, new school, new family. Stability had always worked for me, it was in my blood; but how could I survive without adjusting? I had to learn how to embrace my new environment in order to thrive in it. The first major change I made was a linguistic one. I was determined to make English my primary language and my motivation inspired me to start reading books and watching English television in order to better understand diction and syntax. I studied English grammar books in order to acquire the necessary literacy of my new home's prevalent language. My semantic change was encouraged by my dad, who understood the importance of the change I was going through. But there were other people who were not as encouraging. At school I was sometimes ridiculed because of my accent and pronunciation and I was often made to feel unwelcome because I was an immigrant. That affected me emotionally but it did not influence my motivation to change. After many months of studying and learning, I started to think in English even when speaking in Italian. I could write essays and communicate with people with much more confidence and eloquence than before. That is when I realized that I had made my very first personal change. The first of
I'm going to start off by saying that in Italy there is a scarcity of change, making personal development seldom welcomed. People remain in the same socioeconomic class as their parents; the son of a butcher is destined to become a butcher himself. People rarely change houses or move to new cities; a person is expected to live and die in the same small town. People are afraid to embark on new culinary journeys; an Italian is taught to only eat Italian foods, no exceptions.
As an Italian citizen and resident I was destined to live a rather common, unremarkable life. Although I was never too enthusiastic about change, when my dad announced that …show more content…
I was hit with the biggest changes right off the bat. New language, new school, new family. Stability had always worked for me, it was in my blood; but how could I survive without adjusting? I had to learn how to embrace my new environment in order to thrive in it. The first major change I made was a linguistic one. I was determined to make English my primary language and my motivation inspired me to start reading books and watching English television in order to better understand diction and syntax. I studied English grammar books in order to acquire the necessary literacy of my new home's prevalent language. My semantic change was encouraged by my dad, who understood the importance of the change I was going through. But there were other people who were not as encouraging. At school I was sometimes ridiculed because of my accent and pronunciation and I was often made to feel unwelcome because I was an immigrant. That affected me emotionally but it did not influence my motivation to change. After many months of studying and learning, I started to think in English even when speaking in Italian. I could write essays and communicate with people with much more confidence and eloquence than before. That is when I realized that I had made my very first personal change. The first of