Personal Narrative: Moving To USA

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The country that I am from has a lot of good places to go such museums and bunch of historical places. I am originally from Russia Moscow and I have lived there for 15 years . My nationality is Armenian and so my whole family. Before coming to USA I have studied little bit of English in Russia and that was really hard for me to do. Also in Russian schools English is mandatory to take for the graduation. I have moved to California 3 years ago and that was a really hard time for me to do because I had a big attachment to my city and it was basically friends and the most imnportant one was my powerlifting club where I would always spend my free time in there everyday and the people that I were lifting with were like a family to me . As I walk …show more content…
This weight seems a little bit too heavy, I pull the bar up and let go, then slowly crouch down and adjust the pin about twenty pounds lighter. I grasp the bar with a wide grip, my palms facing away from me and pull the bar down to my chest with one fluid motion. One rep is done, I can feel my muscles begin to tense up but it is not a really difficult weight so I pull it down again, again and again. After maybe five reps I begin to feel all the blood rushing into my biceps and my upper back, feeling it widen in my shirt, feeling my muscles tighten and contract, this feeling, it is what I have been waiting for the whole day, I cannot live without it. I pull the bar down one last time it stops about five inches from my chest, I feel like I cannot do anymore, but I pull with all my strength. As my face turns a bright ripe red, I let out a grunt like no other and pull it all the way down to my chest holding it for about ten seconds then letting go slowly as I feel my muscle fibers begin to rip, making way for new ones to grow and fill them up, making them thicker, stronger, better. I stand up slowly and feel all the blood rush to my brain fast, it is like a high, a healthy high that you can never get enough of, that you crave from the moment you wake up to the moment you are laying in your bed thinking about the steel, the weight that you will lift, that …show more content…
When I was living in Russia I would watch some American movies just to see how the life is different there then that I have .In my country we have a green card lottery every two years and my mom and I decided to play that lottery and take a chance. After six months later the results came in a mail and I brought my mom a letter to open and see the results and the letter told us that we won and got actually second place . My mom and couldn’t believe in this because it was our dream to come and live legally in America. After few months later we packed our staff and were ready to fly out and that was a really hard moment for my that I have expierenced in my life. I left all of my friends and pretty much everything . When we got to California the first thing that we did is we called my mom friends to help us to find a place to stay at and it was really helpful for us because we couldn’t really speak English and it was really difficult for us to do. Next day in the morning my mom and I went to look for colleges and we didn’t know what the system look like , so basically everyday we would learn something new and get little more comfortable with American culture. Life in Russia has a lot of pros and cons For the most part that I have expierenced were Cons such as respectful people, beautiful environment , good food

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