Jackie Robinson once said “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” This was my motto as i moved to the USA from Egypt at the age of six years old. Although i was not as old as i am now it was still tough. Thanks to determination and persistence i was able to not only make it in school but understand the language and speak it.
It had been a year after my brother was born, i had made a lot of friends in kindergarten, had my dad’s side of the family here, i had finally learned to read and write a little bit of Arabic, and was about to go to first grade. Then out of nowhere my dad said we were moving to the USA to meet my mom’s side of the family (that i would see rarely but knew them well) and live there for good. I was happy and sad because i had family here i had a lot of friends and about to go to first grade but at the same time i was going to go and live in the land of freedom.
We had gotten off the plane in New Jersey and i was excited to meet my family. Once we had gotten to our big apartment that my grandma and aunt had we met a lot of family and a lot of people who were friends with our aunt and grandma, of course they were all Egyptians just like us. After we had settled in i got enrolled into a public elementary school, …show more content…
It was tough but there were two people, a brother and sister named Danny and Susan. They were Egyptians just like me that knew Arabic and English, they had helped me with all my school work until i was put into an ESL class. This class helped me read and write it, although it was a 3 year process i did not give up and during first, second, and third grade class i was learning English and kept making A’s and B’s in my classes that to the siblings help and my ESL teacher, Mrs. Cocoa. Eventually by fifth grade i was really good at English and so were my parents and
It had been a year after my brother was born, i had made a lot of friends in kindergarten, had my dad’s side of the family here, i had finally learned to read and write a little bit of Arabic, and was about to go to first grade. Then out of nowhere my dad said we were moving to the USA to meet my mom’s side of the family (that i would see rarely but knew them well) and live there for good. I was happy and sad because i had family here i had a lot of friends and about to go to first grade but at the same time i was going to go and live in the land of freedom.
We had gotten off the plane in New Jersey and i was excited to meet my family. Once we had gotten to our big apartment that my grandma and aunt had we met a lot of family and a lot of people who were friends with our aunt and grandma, of course they were all Egyptians just like us. After we had settled in i got enrolled into a public elementary school, …show more content…
It was tough but there were two people, a brother and sister named Danny and Susan. They were Egyptians just like me that knew Arabic and English, they had helped me with all my school work until i was put into an ESL class. This class helped me read and write it, although it was a 3 year process i did not give up and during first, second, and third grade class i was learning English and kept making A’s and B’s in my classes that to the siblings help and my ESL teacher, Mrs. Cocoa. Eventually by fifth grade i was really good at English and so were my parents and