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Narrative Essay About Moving To College

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Leaving home to attend college is in general a big step and for me as an international student, leaving my country Chile was very scary due to the big changes I was going to face. One of the huge diversity experiences I had was when I first came to the United States in August 25th, 2012 and through all my freshmen year. My freshman year was a time filled with some anxiety and wonderful discoveries. First, my roommates where all from different countries (Japan, Canada and United States) and the true is that with the exception of the Canadian guy, I couldn’t get along with them at the beginning. They were different attitude and ways to face a same problem but at the end, we created a good atmosphere in our room and although we don’t live together

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