My Defining Moment Essay

I remember that exact moment. The moment where my life would change with the next step I took. Looking out the window of the airplane, I wondered how my new home, Hong Kong, would be like. So many questions were whizzing around in my head. “Will the kids at my school be nice?” “How are the teachers going to be like?” “How will I communicate with the locals there? I don’t even speak Chinese!” As the thundering roar of the plane began to fill the cabin and the safety announcements began to play, I leaned back in my seat and drifted away into a fitful sleep. “I’ll miss you America…” It had been three days since I had left Torrance, California to a unfamiliar country called Hong Kong. It was 3 in the morning and I was wide awake. “One more week …show more content…
I arrived late to every class by at least 10 minutes and was then forced to stand up and introduce myself to the whole class. If there was one thing I hated the most, It was standing up and giving the “I’m blah, and I’m in blah grade” The one thing I dreaded was lunch. I had not made a single friend and I had read enough books to know what being the kid who-sits-alone-at-lunch was like. The dreaded lunch bell rang and I trudged up the stairs to the cafeteria. I sat down, alone, at the table in the corner and began to eat my lunch. It was the most mortifying 20 minutes of my life. I hated this school and I hated Hong Kong more. I missed America. I came home sobbing. My mom came to me trying to comfort me and telling me it was okay and that it would get better but to be honest, it didn’t get better. It only got worse. The second day wasn’t any better. I still had not made any friends so therefore was sitting alone, again, at lunch. This went on for the first week. I slept every night fearing the next day. However, the next day, a miracle happened. I like to refer to it as the Day of Blessing. It happened like this. I sat own at my usual table, obviously alone, eating my lunch when this boy sat next to me and began to eat his