Reflective Essay: When I Come To America

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When I first come to America
When I first time came to America, I even never had spoken English before. So, English could be a big challenge for me, and it actually came true soon after I got up my flight. When we were about to cross American border, the crew gave us a form which needs us to fix it, but I didn’t know how to do it, by the way, my English was really poor at that time. I wanted to ask the passage on my left, but I didn’t know how to ask the question I want to express. That was so embarrassing for me, but that passage noticed me, and he helped me to fix that form very friendly. It was so surprised me that a stranger could help so patiently. I will never forget that man.
When I got off the airplane, I faced another trouble. When I went to immigration checkpoint, the officer told me I need to write my live address, but I didn’t know how to write American address, and I even didn’t know how to explain my problems. So, that officer lets me wait out of line to result in this issue. Fortunately, there was a staff which can speak Chinese gave me a hand. At that time, I only had my uncle’s phone number, and he helped me to connect with my uncle and got my home address. This could be the second unforgotten thing.
In addition, I couldn’t find or didn’t know where to find my packages,
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Now, I am taking four classes but have only one classmate which is come from the same country. Actually, most of the Chinese young man still real traditional like me. There had had a beautiful girl in my ESL class, and she is very ebullient to me and always try to talk to me, but I can just feel sky to communicate with her. I know that hear like crazy, but if you know that I had never told with my female classmates in Chinese high school, you would understand my situation. Most of the time, my English speaking skill is very poor, and I really don’t know how to play with the girl, so you know the result

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