Personal Narrative: Grandma's Home

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Greatness should never be materialized in our achievements, but in the beliefs and notions we adopt. Everyday our feelings develop and our ideas change opening up new horizons that we could never dream of. As fire purifies gold, hardships beautifully craft our purposes. Thus, I will take you on a short journey to my life that might reveal a glance of how I have achieved my current goals and why I wish to pursue my LL.M degree at Duke. While most grandparents begin to retire raising children when their children leave for life, my grandparents had a challenge dropped into their laps. The idea of grandma’s house to many children is the smell of fresh baked cookies, but to me, it was a reminder of how I barely escaped abortion, forcing …show more content…
Although it is a learned fact about life that you are useless if you are not making someone else’s life better, I felt that I need to improve myself first to be able to help and support others. On the contrary, taking into account how mysterious life can be, I decided not to waste any chance to volunteer abroad as life might end at any minute at a time. Thus, I applied to AIESEC’s project “Time for Language”, to hold English speaking clubs in Ukraine. After being selected out of hundreds of applicants from Egypt, the feeling of happiness had not left me one second once I stepped foot in Ukrainian lands. As I did not only have the honor to become the attendees’ favorite teacher, but also I became their motivator, role model, and the reason why they want to achieve perfection. This also gave a precious meaning to my endless efforts in academic life in general and TOEFL in particular, as I reaped what I had been sowing all these past years. Moreover, even interns from all over the word, including a native English speaker from Singapore, considered me their English teacher, leader, philosopher, and their influential character. Literally, I cannot be more grateful for meeting such great people since each one of them has contributed a lot to my mental and psychological …show more content…
However, I consider it the most thoughtful field of all. Also, a great lawyer in Arbitration is the one who possesses an extensive knowledge in Private International Law. Thus, I would not have any solid ground in defending Egypt without acquiring sufficient knowledge in Private International Law. Moreover, I believe it is a very interesting subject to teach, if you are willing to be a creative lecturer. My interest to study the American Legal System emits from my addiction to study US landmark cases. Also, I want to introduce this subject to various law schools in Egypt. Hence, I believe that teaching such a great model of a common law system would deepen the students’ understanding of law per se. Therefore, for the sake of a better universal education system, a better Egypt, and a peaceful world with less poverty, I decided to pursue a Master of Laws (LLM) at Duke Law School as a first step, and to obtain my SJD in Arbitration as a second

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