I am confused now. Nothing can compare to the past when I was in China. This is a new place for me. Everything I need to do from scratch if I can’t follow by my old life style. Before I knew I could come to the U.S., I never thought that I would be here. I had no mental preparation to do that. After I came to Chicago, I was able to adapt to the life in about several months. But there are some problems that perplex me continuously what I lost.
I have been in Chicago for three years, and I have come back to school for two years, but I still miss when I was a student in China. As I am a student, I think I should improve myself quickly. The first feeling when I studied in school in America was that of freedom. It’s so relaxed. No one restricts you from doing something that you don’t want to do. Sometimes I would be relaxed. I didn’t want to do homework or didn’t want to read, even didn’t go to school. It was impossible when I was in China. No matter if you were in high school, college or university, you must do what the teachers want you to do. The schools always force the students to do something what the students don’t want to do. But I think those methods are better for me. No pressure, no power. I can’t give myself the pressure, so that I hope others can restrict me.
In a typical school, the students always make a lot of friends. American schools have many kinds of students from different countries. Sometimes they are classmates in a course, and next semester they aren’t. Some students can make friends with each other. I have several friends from other countries. We just were classmates in one course. Sometimes we met in the school saying hello to each other. Usually, I think we communicate with each other obstruct me. The language is one of the problems. I am a introversive man, so I am not good at talking with people. I always contact my friends who are in China. When I was in the school in China, we talked about everything. I had the same classmates for three years. We knew a lot of things about each other. Studying together, playing together. But this life has never been happened yet in this country. I’m still my life in the U.S.
Finally, the language problem has already influenced me for a long time in school. If a person talks with me and speaks fast, sometimes I can’t understand what he or she says, or I want to talk to others and some words I forget how to say. I would think and use another way to explain my idea. This tends to waste the time and affect the talking. This never happened when I was in my country. We have the same national language. We can use different words to express something fluently. And don’t worry about that people don’t understand.
Adapting to a new environment can waste a lot of time and energy. Moreover, I have been in habit of the Chinese school’s environment. Everything was changed, and I need to learn everything that is new for me. Losing part of my country is inevitable, but if I can treat the new things seriously, nothing is impossible.
Ian,I think your eassays is too shot, you need to giev more idea. I will like to make comment on this, you can't say America has freedom so you can relaxe and don't want to do enything in school. You have to do your homework and read in other to become a better person. I you stary relaxe at home?
ReplyDeleteThere are advantages and disadvantages of the study in both countries. As an immigrants, I think we can take the good study habbits from both countries. I know sometimes we will disappoint when we can't get into this new place because the language. so we have to study hard. I believe you will like this country when you know English very well.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone goes to a new country should lose something from his past, such as habit.
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ReplyDeleteStudying a new language and get used to a new culture are the first difficult point that the new immigrants have to face. In the process, we will gain and lose something that only you can know by yourself.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your advice. I think that is useless when I said any excuse. I would never relaxe in school, but sometimes I would do that at home. Although I know that is wrong, I still do that. In the future, I will try to do my best.