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Personal Statement: Moving To The United States

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Elys Diaz
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June 27th 2010, was the day my life completely began to drastically change. At 11 years old, I left the Dominican Republic, my native country, and immigrate to the United States. I had no idea that coming to the United States of America would have such an impact on my life. Moving to the USA changed my life, me and probably my future!
After almost four years, I still have flashbacks to the most frustrating years of my life. In particular my first school year in a new country. I remember myself coming home and wanting to cry my heart out and give up on everything, because I didn't thought I was going to make it. Coming from a Spanish speaking country, not knowing english made everything more difficult. It was tough not being able to speak my mind, because of the lack of language. I think about how many times I knew the answers of the teacher's questions, but couldn't say it. Because of my inability of being able to communicate, I didn't have as many friends as i used to have. I missed my friends and at the time it was almost impossible to make new ones. Although, most of the people knew I couldn't speak english they were friendly and tried to talk to me. However, hands signals did not always worked out to communicate! That made me more homesick. …show more content…

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