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Personal Narrative Essay: Moving To The United States

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Imagine me as a seven years old little girl that was told by her mother that we will be moving to the United States and live there. Moving from Vietnam to the United States was a very long trip for me, at the age that you don’t know much about life. All I can think of when my mother saying that we will be moving to the United States is that there will be a lot of fun, I don’t have to school and life will be very easy. But that not the case, moving to a place that is not your hometown and don’t speak their language is very hard and challenging. It’s so challenging that I was fell one grade behind because they said I can’t speak English well and cannot listen to what they said, I feel kind of shame toward myself until now. As life keep moving …show more content…

I am a type of person who loves to challenge myself, even though many people told I will never be able to do it. For example, when I told my friends and family that I will be applying to the Simon Scholarship, 90% of them told me “Don’t do it, it is not easy to get a scholarship.” But I told them “why not? Is an opportunity that was being given to me and I should take it, I know it 50/50 percent chance of me being accept or reject because there are others 200 students that want this opportunity too.” I need to test my ability, whether the result is positive or negative I will be okay with it because there a quote in Vietnam that said: “Failure is the mother of Success.” And this quotes mean in order to be success there will be failure and that failure can help us be stronger and try harder to be more success in our life. I do believe in myself that am not the lucky type person, I never won in any competition that I join but if I got chosen to be part of the Simon Scholarship Family that will be very honor of myself and I can prove to my family and friends that they were wrong about

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