* Your short-term and long-term personal and education/career goals
In 500 words or less, please describe your short-term and long-term personal and education/career goals and what has helped to shape your goals. What specific steps will you take to reach your personal/education/career goals?
* Your plan to give back to your community
In 500 words or less, please describe how you plan to give back to your community and help fulfill the needs of your community after you've completed your education. How would your plan impact not only your immediate community, but also a broader one? Many people do not care about where they come from. Many people are selfish with their time and effort, but not me I do care about where I came from
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I learned the most from staying after school with a Catholic Charities of Charlotte program on a daily basis just to get more practice with English, do my homework, and make new friends who came from another country like me. Watching cartoons and the High School Musical movie over and over again was also helpful. Cartoons were easy to understand, and by listening to them, I began to understand the English words that were used. With High School Musical, I watched the movie with subtitles, and I came to know the story very well that way. Soon I began to turn off the subtitles until I could watch the entire movie in English. From a simple start, I have continued to get better at understanding, speaking, and writing in English. I wished my English would get better, even if it improved slowly. There were times that I felt like I would never learn English well enough to know what other people were saying to me. This struggle taught me how to deal with tough situations and, more importantly, that life is not always easy. I had to believe in myself that I could do it, and I constantly reminded myself that I did not have a choice, but that learning English was a priority in my new