Being born in Europe and moving to the United States has influence both positively and negatively. The biggest negative is hating reading and writing in English and also the English language as a whole. Technology also, school is becoming more and more digital and technology is becoming more advanced but at the same time the quality of education is decreasing rapidly. But there are positives that outweigh the negatives, such as receiving a high work ethic.
I was born in Hamburg, Germany and lived there for about three years, but I grew up in Hartford/Wethersfield. I lived in Hartford for a couple years and my parents decided to move to Wethersfield because we were in an unsafe environment. My family was dirt poor when we first came to the United States, because we came here with nothing and had to …show more content…
I’ve always had problems with my writing, since I had no one in my household to assess my writing. I became really frustrated, because I would have to stay after school multiple times a week while I was in elementary school. I almost had to stay back multiple years in elementary school because my writing was atrocious. Personally I hate reading in English because I can’t picture what I read in my head which makes it very difficult to understand what the true meaning of a story is. I love to read and write in Croatian but I don’t do it too often because there is no point to. Even though I like in the United States of America, I hate the language! It’s so complicated sometimes, because there are silent letters and things aren’t spelled how they are heard unlike Croatian, where everything is spelled, like how it sounds. Throughout all my years in school, English class has was always my worst subject, especially senior year of high school because that’s where I had to write the most essays, including my college essay, which really put a lot of pressure on
I was born in Hamburg, Germany and lived there for about three years, but I grew up in Hartford/Wethersfield. I lived in Hartford for a couple years and my parents decided to move to Wethersfield because we were in an unsafe environment. My family was dirt poor when we first came to the United States, because we came here with nothing and had to …show more content…
I’ve always had problems with my writing, since I had no one in my household to assess my writing. I became really frustrated, because I would have to stay after school multiple times a week while I was in elementary school. I almost had to stay back multiple years in elementary school because my writing was atrocious. Personally I hate reading in English because I can’t picture what I read in my head which makes it very difficult to understand what the true meaning of a story is. I love to read and write in Croatian but I don’t do it too often because there is no point to. Even though I like in the United States of America, I hate the language! It’s so complicated sometimes, because there are silent letters and things aren’t spelled how they are heard unlike Croatian, where everything is spelled, like how it sounds. Throughout all my years in school, English class has was always my worst subject, especially senior year of high school because that’s where I had to write the most essays, including my college essay, which really put a lot of pressure on