Personal Narrative: Coming To America

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I was born and raised in Puerto Rico until I was 9 years old. The lifestyle, and the cultural customs in the island are very different from the American culture. Coming to America was a mix of emotion. I was sad to leave my family and friends behind for what I later learned in life, was for a better future. It was hard to leave the house that I grew up in for 9 years of my life. It was hard to leave the fresh country air and friendly neighbors, that where more like family then friends. But I was happy to start fresh, to meet new people and learn a new language. When I started school for the first time in America it was a bit of a culture shock for me. School was stricter than what I was used to. I didn’t need uniforms and kids around me spoke to me, what I thought was a weird language. For me one of my biggest obstacles was school because of my language beerier. I was made fun of a lot and I dint understand what the teachers where trying to teach me. So, I found myself distracted & looking out the window a lot. My teacher started seeing that I wasn’t focusing as much as the other kids, so she assigned me a partner that spoke both English and Spanish, so she could help me understand the lessons more. She helped me so much, that within a year of being in the U.S, I was speaking fluent English. School in the U.S have more resources for kids. Don’t get me wrong, the school over there were good but over here there’re more teachers that want you to pass to the next grade. When I was in elementary in Puerto Rico they dint have computers to work on like in the U.S, they dint have new books or ac in the class rooms. The good thing was that most of the time we took our classes outside of the class room, which it was fun because you got to be outside in the open and fresh air. …show more content…
One of the good things about schools in Puerto Rico were the hot meals for breakfast and lunch. For breakfast hot eggs with crispy bacon and cold orange juice and for lunch hot rice with fried chicken and red beans that would make your mouth water and if u ask nicely and waited for everyone to eat you could go back to get seconds. Now the U.S school food are usually cold and soggy pizza with juices that aren’t that cold. There are not a lot of options to choose from. You only have a few options get cold pizza, a cold burger or a cold 31 and j sandwich. Those were not great options for students with free lunches. Only students that would pay would have hot lunches and even they would complaine about the food. The American language was the second problem for me. Even though I learned it in a year, I still have problems with some words today. Some people say that one of the hardest languages is Russian but to be honest I think its English. There’s so many words in the English dictionary that mean different things for example to, too, two. English have so many rules to follow, word phrases and slag words.

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