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28-11-2007 07:13
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Одно из моих сочинений для колледжа. Переводить не буду. Для Марины вкратце: я бедная несчастная, первый год в Америке как ни старалась, всё было херово, но потом всё наладилось из-за моих же титанических усилий.
Everybody has different experiences in their lives. Everybody is affected differently by those experiences. Those events change people’s lives. I am going to talk about one such event which changed my whole life – moving to America.
Sometime in June 2004 my parents announced that we were going to an interview at the American embassy. On July 2nd 2004 my parents and I got a status of refugees. I came to the US on August 8th 2005, 5 days before my 16th birthday. I didn’t know the language, I did not know American culture – I was a stranger to everything and everybody, and everybody was a stranger to me. I started Sycamore High School for my sophomore year two weeks after moving. It was a terrifying experience, and I will never forget that year. It was a year of frustration, tears, and depression. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t do better than I was doing, even though I knew I was worth so much more than all those C’s I kept getting at school: I even took public speaking class hoping that it would help me learn the language. It did help, but did not make a major difference. I kept getting my very average grades and going through a lot of stress based on the fact that people didn’t want to even talk to me because they could not understand my accent. During the summer, I found a job and I had much more practice in speaking English. My language started improving at the speed of light. My junior year I was still not doing that well at school, but I had a major improvement and I didn’t have as much trouble speaking to people, and life became much easier. It was my junior year when I started to form a new person who did not get embarrassed because of her accent and started trying to actually live instead of surviving like I did my sophomore year. My senior year I became unrecognizable in comparison with what I was like two years before that. I lost most of my accent, my grades improved significantly and even though I still have troubles with the language, they are not as severe and dramatic.
It is very hard to describe everything that happened in those two years in a few words, and it is not that easy to talk about it because it was not the happiest part of my life. I can definitely say that this experience made me morally stronger and more resistant to people antagonizing me. Being an outcast for that one year made me look differently at the other people who struggle to make connections to those who surround them, and I try to be friends with them. I am very proud that I did not break and I managed to overcome my frustration with life, and I really hope that I can help somebody to do the same.
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