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Essay / Personal Statement: My Personal Experience in High School
I spend most of my life in Bangladesh wondering how to live an abundant and purposeful life. Eventually, my family moved to America to pursue our dream of higher education. After a week in America, my uncle helped me enroll in high school. On my first day in American high school, I fell in love with American schools and it was different from my country. My main goal is to get a better education, but it was not easy for me because I was an ESL student and the language is different, for this reason I looked at my comfort zone and I did not I haven't learned to speak English properly. Little by little I lost confidence in myself and I didn't want to learn English because it wasn't my comfort zone and I made friends who speak a different language rather than speaking English, it This is why I became introverted towards English speakers. advantage of being an ESL student by not doing my homework by finding excuses for not understanding the language and I used to act out. I don't know how to do my assignment and I have difficulty understanding the concept and I have difficulty reading, which is being decided. getting out of the group, I've known him since the start of my high school in America. So I can start fresh and focus on improving myself and I started a new and different school next year. For the first time in my life, I made an American friend who actually knows how to speak English. I actually made some of my best friends at this school. year, I listen to them and admire them. It was easy for me to step out of my comfort zone and have good social skills. But I started to face the real difficulties that worried me, because I used to enjoy being an ESL student and I didn't worry about my academic life. I would like to use the quote “When you want to succeed as badly as you want to breathe, then you will be