Essay On When I Came To America

I came to America from Pakistan two years ago. I am currently attending Broward College to get my associate degree. One of my most important goals is to get a master’s degree in aerospace engineering and become an engineer. To achieve this goal, I am very passionate. I have worked very hard to maintain good grades. I have joined clubs and faced many difficulties to be where I am. I am passionate about math and physics and due to that reason I want to attend a prestigious school for sciences and become an engineer. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to get the education; therefore, I am working hard to get scholarships.

All people seem to want the same basic things out of life regardless of race or religion. Universally, people want a good job, a healthy family, and a chance for their children to have a better life than the one they have. Families that already possess these things, whether through their own hard work or merely by way of inheritance, rely on the existing power structures within society to ensure that their future happiness continues . But what do people who do not belong to existing power structures turn to in order to secure these things for their families and children?

My γιαγιά , Catherine Fotiou, was Born in 1948, Rhodes Greece on the 26th of July. She was one of four children she had an amazing life journey across a big sea to a foreign land she had never seen before. She still remembers the sound of the wind, hitting the sails of Kirina. She had Migrated to Australia in 1951 by boat across the Atlantic Sea from her motherland home, to the foreign “Australia”.

Coming to AmericaThe year was 1948, and my grandmothers aunt and uncle came for a visit from Chicago to Germany to see their family. They had no children and had come to ask my grandmother if she would be interested in coming to Chicago to possibly live there w ith them. The idea of going appealed to her very much since her home city, Saarbrcken, was still partially destroyed from the WWII bombings. She always had the wanderlust in her blood coming from both sides of her family, so thinking about the towering skyscrapers, the bustling city streets, and the glamorous movies from America was quite enticing to my grandmother. With all off these wondrous thoughts swimming through her head, she enthusiastically agreed to go.Now, it was time to prepare

Trent Shelton said “ The right decisions are always the hardest to make. But they must be made in order to live the life you deserve “. What Trent really means is everyone has to make a decision to live a better life. For example, moving to America makes my life a lot better than living in Thailand refugee camp. Sometime I was wondering what would happen to me and my family if we didn’t come to America?

My journey began from Hlamphei to United States. I lived in Hlamphei for ten year and life is so difficult and hard because their is no job to get money. Their is no bathroom and fire to use for cooking also their is not renting house, the house where we lived was so dirty and there is no light. I never went to school because it cost too much to pay and we need uniform so instead of that I just help my parents. We planted crops but it is very hard to take care of because from my house it is so far and we need to walk long distance because we always need to pour water and get some of crop to cook. Also we have farm and I feel so sad for my parents because they use cows to farm and it was so muddy. We clean dishes and wash clothes at river because their is

Wang Si Yu is my foreign exchange student who has lived with me for the past year. Her name, Si Yu, means rain and was chosen for her because her parents thought it sounded beautiful. However, I know her as Ella. When she came to America to complete her junior and senior years of high school she chose an english name. We went through a complex naming process but she finally decided on Ella because that was the easiest for her to pronounce. Ella is from North East China, a province called Harbin. Harbin's seasons are a lot like ours in the Quad Cities except that the winter months are significantly colder. Harbin is often called ice city because in winter they have entire buildings made of ice. So naturally, Ella loves snow. In China, Ella is

There are events in life, which can change yourself or your way of thinking. As for me, I think the major change in my life occurred when I moved from France to America. This change has entirely affected my personality. Why? I arrived in the United States during the summer of 2002. It was really hard for me since my parents had only told me about the move in April of that year. Therefore, I did not have the time to prepare myself psychologically. My parents had talked about coming here for a very long time, even before I was born. Everything started in 1973. Indeed, my parents came from Iran to Europe in order to finish their studies and then to return back home. However, even at that time, they had not set their mind as to where they

As a young kid, growing up in Pakistan was challenging, but it was even more of a challenge moving to America and adapting to everything. I was born in Pakistan, in a lower-middle class family, where i was attending a private school. My family didn’t really have much, we lived a simple life and going to a private school was very costly. My parents always wanted me and my sister to get the best education we can possibly get so they sent us both to a Private school, although we knew they could barely afford it.

It's never easy to decide to step out of ones comfort zone. For me, coming to the U.S. was the most difficult decision I have ever made. On one hand, it would make me leave my friends and beloved grandparents, as well as give up all the good grades I've earned. On the other hand, it provides a opportunity to learn new things, make new friends and start a new life. Compared to becoming a test-taking machine, studying in the U.S. would definitely be beneficial to my personal development.

Those who immigrate to another country have many reasons for why they want to leave the country where they are from. Religious freedom would be one reason someone might want to immigrate from their home country. Another someone might want to immigrate would be the opportunities that the united states has to offer, here in the united states we have so many job opportunities that are welcome for anyone to apply for. When moving from another country to America those people think they will get a job just for migrating here that is not the case, most people who migrate here are uneducated and have little to no work experience. Last would be survival, survival has been key to foreigners who migrate.

As I got on the plane I knew my life was changed. The moment when I entered the US it was a new beginning for me. As most migrants would say; this is the land of opportunities, it was totally what I expected.

Transitions are never an easy thing to conquer. It is often hard and stressful to cope with changes to one’s surrounding, but in the cases in which one manages to conquer this obstacle, elevation of knowledge and experience are great results gained from this achievement. I originally came from Africa and recently moved to the United States to join my mother and my step father. This great change in the things I had become accustomed to in my daily life was not easy, furthermore taking into account the fact that I had never experienced a transition so little as shifting from one residence to another.

My story starts in the year of 2003, when I decided to follow up on my

There are many significant parts of my life that have had a huge impact on my personality, but there is one that has not only affected me, but has changed me for the better. My personal life changing experience was coming to America. For me, this bridge between my old life and new life is a shaky bridge that I attempted to cross and entered a whole new realm of life which changed everything. The decision about coming to America has taught me how to respect other people, be more responsible, and be more loving towards various friends and families. It has also helped me adapt to the new life that I’m about to begin. It was so unexpected. Out of nowhere my parents broke the news: “We’re going to America!” Living in a big town of Bhopal,