Undergraduate / UC Prompt #1 - I love taking things apart [2]

I'm not a native speaker so... I'd love you if you can proofread it please :)
Thoughts about the topic are welcome too.

Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?

A picture stuck in my head: a seven years old kid in his mother's office in front of a small Macintosh. I am that kid. The office employees used it to make graphics, I played with it by discovering system files instead. I'd edit, copy, and mess up files that shouldn't even be touched. Then I'd reboot and stare with amazement and excitement at the error codes that the suffering computer would produce. And my mom, who was unaware of what his son was doing with the computer, would have to regularly bring it in for repair.

The more I was in front of that monitor the more I understood its logic operations and consequently i could predict its behavior. A strong attraction towards technology was growing up in me at a point that my friends would define me as the "computer genius". Every time there was a problem they would call me and they would remain amazed because in a few minutes I would fix everything up. At that time of my life i couldn't comprehend the reason of so much amazement yet. For me it was all normal, i was just playing.

The force that was moving the wants to play was the curiosity. I wanted to know, experiment, understand how the world around me was moving. I was curious to get how things work. I couldn't just use them, i wanted to know more.

At the age of nine me and my friends would usually hang out and play Game Boy. In those days "Pokemon" was the most played game. Me and my friends would play on the floor. I wouldn't have fear to be judged of the fact that while my friends were playing the Game Boy i would sit next to them with a screw driver in my hand and curiosity in my vein while taking the console apart. I'd open it, cut wires off, attach them together again and see what would have happened. I wasn't interested in catching all the pokemon, ending the game or winning all the battles but i just wanted to discover how that plastic box could show me those funny multicolor animals on the screen. After the Game Boy I took lots of others things apart.

My curiosity pushed me to learn more about computers in a such involving way to allow me get an overall vision of the mechanism of the modern technology. Today I see the systems the world is made of with the same eye that gave me the keys to comprehend the computer universe. I know from experience that is an evolving universe but I will never stop to discover it.I will accept the challenge to follow this evolution counting on my personal quality that drove me at seven years old to edit those system files of a small Macintosh.

Undergraduate / 'my biggest dream to live a life abroad' My family and my journey- UC; World you come from [3]

Hi i'd like to know your thoughts about my essay.
Grammar check is also desidered, if you can... I'm Italian tho.

Describe the world you come from - for example, your family, community or school - and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

My biggest dream is to live a life abroad. I want to meet new people, see new places and go through new experiences. Just the idea of travelling and discovering the world excites me. I have thrill of joy and i smile whenever I imagine myself with my backpack walking out of the airport doors ready to face a new adventure. At 16 years old I already wanted to open the doors to a new world by myself.

I was born in a family that educated me to respect and always help others. "All for one, one for all" is the motto of my family. We are a team made of fighters ready to battle and help each other, just like my mother says. She, like my father, has worked intensely for all these years to guarantee my older sister and I a happy life. She never stopped for a moment and she often returned home tired from working all day. Being away from home so much was a heavy price to pay, but she had a loving relationship with her children and her sacrifice allowed me to achieve my greatest desire. Travelling overseas.

Thus on September 2012 I left Italy and I spent a year as a foreign exchange student in Idaho where I discovered a new world. During the first three months after leaving home, my parents and I were usually able to skype only during the weekend because of the time zone difference. We talked two times per month and they constantly called me first because they wanted to know how their son was living his adventure on the other side of the world in a family that wasn't his. But one day I was the one who called them first. I felt the need to thank them for everything they did for me. I realized why the idea of travelling always excited me. I admired the serenity, the friendliness and the strong values that Americans hold but Italians unfortunately don't clearly have anymore. I understood that the teachings of respect and solidarity gained from my family were the same that America offered me. The United States reflected my family and so I was happy to have found myself in another country.

Once back in italy I clearly knew that living in America would be my ambition. I realized so that my life was going to go along a path far away from my home.

Now I am determined to attend college and study computer engineering. These next four years will be like buying a brick. My college experience will be one brick out of many that will allow me to build a building and become like my parents and to return them the help they gave me. Giving back to those who helped you just like they taught me.