Improvement

Can you imagine that a dumb person lives in a place where no one can understand sign language? I was a dumb when I was first come here to the U.S. I could not understand what the people who speak fluent English was talking about and nor could I communicate with them through my poor English. When I just arrived here in the U.S, I didn’t even know how to use the public phone. I didn’t understand the directions about the public phone, so I could not make a phone call to my aunt to pick us up at the airport. That was terrible. I want to change my life, and I want to approach my goal without language problem.

I want to communicate with people in a normal way without any language problem. I always ask myself how I can improve my English. I really felt helpless when I could not understand what people were talking about. I admired people from other countries, who spoke English as second language, who can speak English well. Also, when I enrolled in college here the first time, I didn’t understand what the advisor wanted me to do. I just followed the people who were enrolling there. For the enrollment, it requests to take a placement test. What is placement test? I had no idea about it. I tried to ask the advisor, but she didn’t know what I was talking about. It was horrible, I really want to improve my English then I can communicate with people without problems, and it will help me to reach my goal.

Transferring to the university without language problem is my current goal. I used to be a university student in China, but I found that if I want to be a university student here, it will be very hard for me. There is a lot of specialized vocabulary in different subjects in English, so with my poor English, I felt it is a severe challenge. I eventfully designed my major. I am interested in nutrition. Also it has a lot of the hard specialized vocabulary. For the present me, I don’t think I can figure it out. I saw the people in the university study very hard and have a lot of stress. I felt a little bit arduous. Even though my English is poor, I still want to change my life and transfer to the university. It is the first step for me to finding a good job.

If I want to get a good job in the U.S, I should push harder and harder to perfect my English. The Chinese people said if you don’t know English, you have to be a waitress for good. A lot of Chinese immigrate in the U.S. work in restaurants, for they don’t know English and don’t know what else they can do. I used to be a waitress in the U.S, but I was afraid to face costumers because I didn’t know exactly what the costumers were talking about. Sometimes I gave the wrong order from the customer. I felt so awful. Even though I hated working in a restaurant, I don’t know what should I do and what I can do here in the U.S with my poor English. I really want to find a good job to change my life.

As a foreigner, I should learn the language well to adapt to the new environment. As dumb as I feel, I think I will figure out the communication problem through hard work. Language might be severely challenging for me. However, I want to change my life, I want to be a university student, and I want to get a good job. Maybe it will take a long time and maybe it will be hard, but I will try my best to improve it. Improvement is the life standard. I hope I will become Chinese American without a language problem.