Personal Narrative: My Immigration To USA

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I would like to share my personal thing to you. When I came to USA five years ago. I don’t know anything about here. How people are living their life, what need to get good life. Everything for new for me it is like culture shock .after one week, my brother- in –law asking me what do you want to do in the future and I told him I want to work. He said where you want to work. I told him wherever I can get a job.
That time he encourage me without doing a labor work go back to school and get education in the USA because if you are working labor work. They will not paying you more then 7 or 8 dollar an hour and then I decided yes I will go back to school. I struggle a lot because English is not my native language. Now I am at the Kennesaw state

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