Essay About Moving To American Culture

Having had the fortune of living and studying in the USA and in Malaysia, I feel that I have had many experiences for someone my age. I never had the chance of settling down in a certain area of the world due to continuous relocations from one country to another as a result of my father’s diplomatic orders and limitations of staying in one country for a certain period of time. Constant relocations did take a toll on me yet I am glad that I had the privilege to have them in the first place and it has been worth it throughout the years.

It all began in 3rd grade after I came back from school and my parents revealed the news to me that we were going to relocate to the USA. A myriad of emotions were going through my head, good and bad, as I became

Money was projected as something the typical American citizen strived to have an abundance of. Slowly but surely, thereafter, my interest in money grew. Before you know it, I was interested in talking with my local neighbors about how they earned their income, the various businesses they had, and so on. My biggest relief at the time was the fact that they were willing to have conversations about money with a 10-year-old child in the first place. I felt somewhat motivated to try and personally work for my own money for a change. One of the common ideas which popped into my head was the idea of opening up a lemonade stand. I asked a few of my friends if they were interested in opening a lemonade stand just to try something new for a change. Interestingly enough, a friend of mine mentioned that his sister operates a lemon stand in New York, during the weekends, as a side hustle. Gathering the needed items such as a stand, a white a cardboard paper, lemon flavored powder, a pitcher, and plastic cups, my friend and I took our stuff to the busiest corner we could think of. A populated area near our school which was also conveniently close to some 7-11 stores which attract lots of customers on a daily basis. It was an exciting day for us as we had earned a profit of upwards of 100$ for around

The IB curriculum in Malaysia had been the toughest school system I experienced to this date. It was an extensive school regimen including constant bombardments of assignments, projects, and extracurricular activities which took time to get used to. The next two years were a mix of good and bad. An upside to the school was that it had a high percentage of international students which gave me the opportunity to explore the different types of people as well as culture. Exposure to the many different people had altered my mindset like never before. I became a people person and enjoyed interacting and networking with people. The school system itself challenged me in a transformative way. My boundaries for how much work I was able to complete had broadened while at the same time, many different classes introduced different skillsets. English classes improve analytical thinking and group collaboration skills through story analysis and group projects, design classes introduced abstract thinking and creating reports for our designs such as digital games and architectural design and models, and humanities classes helped with presentation and peer to peer discussion based skills through debates and group projects. My mathematical skills became stagnant due to no introduction of new concepts during the first year and unfortunately declined over the second year as my workload management skills lead