Moving to the United States from Dalat, Vietnam was a dramatic experience that has impacted my life in many different ways. My family immigrated to a new country hoping for a better future. I had spent fourteen years of my childhood in Vietnam only to tear away from my relatives, friends and home to start a new life on a city that I have not known much about. On the flight to Seattle I realized this is will be new life that I am about to create. These countries have helped me grown and changed to a better person in several reasons.
When I first arrived to Seattle, Washington I was thinking this could be my turning point where I change myself. My life in Vietnam was hopeless because I was a failing student with not much interest in school. A lot of time, I spent my money on video game, playing pool and hanging out with friends instead of studying. After spending a month in Seattle I knew moving from one place to another is never easy especially when social and cultural adaptations are involved. I have to learn a new language, making new friends and adapting a new culture all at the same time, this made my first year in the United States was very stressful. English was never easy for me and sometime it takes me so long to explain one simple thing to someone. This could be the reason why I was always being quiet in class. However, I forced myself to read, write, listen and speak English everyday with other student. All my hard works finally paid off as I now have a job and many friends.
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Aphorisms By: Mike Aphorisms 'Aphorism - a brief statement of truth.' This is the dictionary definition of an aphorism. I see an aphorism as a quote that you can relate to personally. An aphorism is a fact about life. But is an aphorism always a fact, or is it sometimes an opinion too? Sometimes you might not even agree with what an aphorism says. It depends on who you are and what type of ...
Dalat and Seattle have totally different environment. In Vietnam, the place where I sleep is where my family cramp up in a small house with over ten people. Outside the house is bumpy dirt road and rock on the road. There were no playgrounds for children, instead there are big backyards filled with tires, trees and other junk like a trash dump. When it comes to summer seasons all the smells mix together makes me just want to stay inside the house. This is totally opposite with Seattle where we have clean paved streets, attractive homes and a lot of green trees. Clean street helps me feel happy when I am outside and play with my friends. Sometimes I feel like the clean environment helps me grown faster and stronger. I had the choice to give up but somewhere inside of me know that quitting would only going to worst the situation. Sometime I just want to go back to Vietnam so I can do what I want. For instant, I can talk freely in my mother language but I manage to continue my life here in Seattle. I stay in school and try to get to the goal that I have set. I want to become a professional businessman working for some big company. In order to finish my goal, I know that I have to face much bigger challenges, but I think I will get through it because nothing is harder than the challenge I had faced four years ago.
Sometimes I wonder how my life would be if my parents had not moved to Seattle. I missed every little things when I was a child but now look at how much I grown and changed makes me feel truly appreciate my parents for giving me the opportunity. They left their family and friends behind when they decided to move to the United States in order for me and my siblings to have the opportunity they never had. Now when I face a new difficulty, I am no longer afraid but instead I open my mind to except that new experience.
