Personal Narrative: Coming To America

When I first stepped on American Soil, I thought everything would be same as things were in my native country. However, this new chapter was nothing like my previous chapters. I realized that things are not going to be the same as they were, especially in a country where I don’t even know how to speak the language. I felt like I’m not going to experience anything, but failure. Since I didn’t know how to speak English were well at that time, I wasn’t able to make friends and do well in school. Coming to America didn’t only affect me academically, but also socially. Due to the lack of a way of communication with others in English, I wasn’t able to make friends. I was even bullied few times. Since I faced so many problems, I learned to be sympathetic. …show more content…
Every time I made an effort to do well, I experienced failure. People questioned my intellectuality and made fun of me. People’s opinion about me sometimes caused me to think of moving back. Yet, I didn’t because that would have proven the people’s prediction about my life. Some people even thought that I don’t have bright future. However, I dream big. By struggling to improve and seeing my dad work in restaurant even in inclement weather motivated me to work hard to get good grades. Later, I spend more time on studying than an average amount of time. I stared to read books and newspaper to improve my English, writing and vocabulary skills. My hard work paid off. Every year, I leveled up and took difficult classes.
However, when I compare myself to who I was in my native country five years ago, I thank everyone who criticized me. Facing abundance of difficulties opened the book of strategies of how to be better in life. If those problems would not have occurred, I wouldn’t have been able to transition to kind of person that I am now. Criticism encourage me to do better and become a better human being. Moreover, tough situation taught me how the path with numerous difficulties can be interesting and more helpful, I was able to learn more than I would have been able to If I had chosen the easy path by going back to my

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