I have lived a pretty normal Chinese life. When I was young I was always in school or studying at home. Intelligence is essential to Chinese culture and as such I always strived to be as smart as I could be. Especially when it came to quarterly exams, I needed to make sure I was near the top otherwise not only would I feel ashamed but my parents would be disappointed in my achievements. But realistically none of this really helped define me as a person. To be honest much of my life in China turned me into a clone of other highly achieving students. And while it may have been great because it helped increase my intelligence it did nothing for my own personification.
The event that truly helped me grow as a person with my own beliefs and attitudes is actually still going on as I write this paper. My journey halfway across the world to America to study abroad has changed me in so many ways. I have found myself during my experience studying abroad in America. It is not actually the country that helped me do this but the
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When I was in high school, the schoolwork and textbooks made me feel exhausted. I kept trying to avoid them and distance myself from studying and reading. But after a long time, I realized my life changed to be meaningless so I started to find my interests and read some books to achieve myself values. Until today, I tried different attempts of reading, such as taking notes, highlights and so on. These learning habits help me to keep reading everyday and obtain knowledge from books.
I started to touch and read some boring books in a fast rate then I started to avoid reading for a long time. There was a period that I have almost completely shouted out reading from my life without texting but after this period I tried to wake up my reading memory. For this purpose, I tried lots of different attempts and some of them work with a short