Personal Narrative: Moving To The US

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I was an immature and annoying kid before I came to the U.S. I remember I would be exceedingly disrespectful to my grandma. I used to think she was very annoying and I didn’t like how she treated my mom, so I always rejected things that she wanted me to do. I really like video games, even now I still like it a lot. Although I realized video games made me less socialize. I figured that I rarely talk to my family when I was young. After coming to the United States, I spent more time with my family and talked to them more than before. I feel like I’ve changed a lot because there is less stress here than when I was in China.
I am an introvert. Unless I know someone very well, I won’t talk to them. It’s not like I don’t like people. Mainly because I am a very shy person in general. Only a few time I talked to somebody first and still got very awkward after we talked a bit. The first year I came to U.S, I barely talked to anybody. I knew English was one of the reason I didn’t talk that much, but I know the biggest reason was the shyness stopped me from saying words out of my throat. As the time moved on, my English was getting better and better and I learned that talking to people wasn’t that difficult. I started to talk to people around me and they became my friends. My personality changed a lot because the choices I made and I broke the
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I interrupted a lot during the class when I was in middle school. Especially in math class, I really liked to interrupt when she was explaining the homework, because I didn’t like her teaching style that much. She got pretty mad and she let me got out of the classroom. I didn’t know why she would do that and I thought I was in a big trouble. I got really mad because of that. Now I think about it, I was dumb and disrespected the teacher too much. Now I really wanna say sorry to her and I know I shouldn’t have done that in the first place. After that I think I did change to become a calm

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