Florida is a land of sun palm trees and sand. Florida being a southern state with sweet tea, Publix, and Disney just a few hours away, had many perks. I had never thought of what it might be like to grow up in a northern area, or just even outside of Florida. Up until my 14th summer I had always assumed everyone lived the same way I did. It had all started when I got accepted to a summer program in Washington D.C to attend a medical forum.…
This is Charlie Thierauf and I had the pleasure of talking to you at the UMSL career fair about my Study Abroad trip to China next semester. I had a meeting Friday regarding the program and I wanted to share what I know thus far. I am currently placed at Craig Elementary and have recently found out that I will be able to continue my student teaching experience at Craig through December and January. During this time I will be teaching and completing my MoPTA requirements for graduation.…
Many people characterize their home as safe, secure, or at least comforting. My home was a bit … different. After leaving their home in Nigeria, my parents had to jump from home to home constantly moving me and my family until they could learn how to properly settle in America. My parents were very caring and helpful and kept trying to move us to places where we would have a chance at success. When we finally settled their seemed to only be one logical thing to do... help other immigrants settle here!…
Two days of flying is a long trip for a girl who is only ten years old! That’s how long it took my family and I to come to America. Everything was new and strange. We stayed at my grandparent’s apartment for awhile, and I had so many questions about everything. I wondered why everything was so different.…
Before the fourth grade, the thought of practicing my nonexistent Polish when my grandmother called our landline caused me to dash out the room. I was raised in America, and partaking in my Polish culture was simply a way to ease my parent’s nostalgia for their “Polska.” After moving there for a year, I learned new traditions and developed intimate connections with my family. I finally considered myself a Polish-American.…
After my mom passed away three years ago because of a car crash my dad and I decided to move to San Mateo, California. Everything was new to my father and I, but we had to find a way to move on, moving from Michigan to California was a huge difference. In San Mateo the beach is right across our house; everyday is as bright and sunny as the last, in Michigan everyday was like winter. Well, in just one week I’ll be starting school at San Mateo Mountain High School.…
The National Honor Society is an organization that helps guide bright high school students into the right direction in which they have already shown by having an outstanding academic record, excellent attendance, etc. This organization enhances the unique and positive qualities that a person has while teaching them new ones such as responsibility, honesty, and respect. Throughout this year I faced hardships and had an extremely difficult time keeping everything I valued in place. I didn’t accomplish as much as I wish I did this year, but towards the middle/end, this sudden determination and passion started forming within me and my love for learning deepened.…
My journey began two years ago, when I moved to the United States after going through a lot of process and security checks and after waiting for almost five years finally my family and I made it to the United States. Coming to America affected my family and me with some good and in a bad ways, one of the good ways America has affected my family and me is we finally feel safe and we’re not afraid that we might get killed or bombed in any second, one of the worst ways is America an open country and it has a bad influence on some teenagers who might follow the wrong paths in life. The struggles, my family have gone through has taught me to appreciate everything I have and the vast amount of opportunities presented to me.…
Over the years i slowly found myself noticing my fellow classmates that i've known since i was 3 migrate to different countries for various reasons. What i never expected was to be one of those people. At the age of 12 i packed my whole life into a suitcase and moved to the united states without actually knowing why. All i knew was things in my country, Sri Lanka was falling apart due to political corruption and the only way to ensure a safer future was to leave. As a child i had been lucky enough to visit extraordinary places like singapore, china and hawaii for long periods of time.…
The first day of autumn in 2010 was fulfilled with color of bizarre and exclusionary sight. It was also the first time, of which I stepped into this land of freedom. But it didn't bring me the exemption of excitement, but more of the insecurity deep inside myself. It wasn't like the uncertainty of moment which I experience when leaving my home but the doubt of who will I be in the next few years of my future. But the time that follows the present time from now seems so near but yet so far.…
Hello Ms. GG! This is Lizeth. I am emailing you to update you on what I've been up to lately. Last week, my counselor talked to me about graduation. I know that it seems too far to start thinking about it, but he said that graduating Hispanic students in CCSD get to participate in the Hispanic Graduation Ceremony.…
Immigration for me is a tough life, that my family and I been through. I would not wish anyone to go through it. When I hear about immigration. I remember the worst part of my life. The sadness living, that I went through.…
Statement of Purpose / UCSD / Computer Vision / Ph. D. Sung-Pil Paek [Introduction] This statement applies for admission to the Ph.D. program in Department of Computer Science and Engineering of UCSD, specifically, to continue my study in computer vision as a subfield. I indeed am interested in recognizing, identifying, and detecting the real world through computers in particular with visual information. Based on an understanding of our surroundings of life, I always enjoy replacing the time-consuming, hectic works with computer software and let it be a better choice than other routine works. Hence, I am fascinated to deal with automatic annotations and tracking of images or videos, which are my current research interests.…
Falling Back Into Old Patterns I am the youngest of four. My household consists of my parents, two brothers and one sister. From the outside, we looked like a nice, normal family. But like many we had our problems. Coming from a family where it is frowned upon to talk about your troubles.…
Hoang Vuong Dr Portales ENGL 1301-038 5 September, 2015 Narrative Essay Studying abroad is the journey of education and discovering. It also means that you have to leave your home, country and friends go stranger place. You may have torn in your eyes, afraid and homesick.…