Personal Essay About Moving To America

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hieving one of my most important goals which was to learn proper English and write better. In doing so I would be able to further my education after completing high school. I began participating in and played soccer for Woonsocket High School boy soccer team for 4 years.

In today’s world, it goes without a saying that education is the key to success, It is also the main source of tool for people to have a brighter future. Education determine how we are judged and perceived by the world. As a kid, I grew up in Gambia. This is a nation deprived of education even as of today. Even with the desire to learn, students will find school either too expensive or short of qualified teachers. When I was growing up in Gambia, my friends and I often times got into hot debates on whose dream were more important to our community, Our dreams and ideas were heavily influenced by the things we watched on TV and especially movies. …show more content…

Moving from Africa to the United States made a big differences in my life. Here in the United States I have more opportunities. coming from Africa to the United States is hard and challenging. Since then, my entire life and my dreams were revolutionized. Apart from the adjustments that I needed to make from moving to America, life here in America has both contrive and challenged me heavily into the a person I am today. Gone were the easy days of feeling the overconfidence of tackling things head on and feeling like I am on top of the world, but rightly so did I accept this new challenge, without my intellectual consciousness being intimidated. Already I realized that I was in an extraordinary league of people who thought like me and many had the same dreams as I, but where on a different scale of knowledge. Moreover, my passionate path to my