Undergraduate / 'Leaving home at the age of 16' - Common App Essay [3]

I have never thought that at the age of 16 I will leave my home, my family and all the friends and travel to a different continent for a year. After getting the information about where I am going to fly to and my new family I will live with for next few months, I had just three days to pack all the things needed in order to survive the upcoming year.

I can proclaim without any doubts I am a brave person. I travelled throughoutacross the world to meet and live with a family (foreign people) I have had notnever met. My English skills were pretty good already then , but thinking all the time in other language was asome kind of challenge. But for an excited teenager that did not play a big role. I'm confused it a was big challenge but it didn't play a big role?? Definitely I have gained a lot of courage during the year, too.

Being far from home longer and longer(longer and lover what?) , I had to face many struggles. I learntlearned to be responsible and solve all the problems with cold head. As the time was goingwent by, the sorrow for home (homesickness) came. That year cost me many tears, but I value each tear that came out of my eyes, because each one of them, made me a stronger person.

Frankly, the school was very easy for me; I was the best student at the school. Although, it taught me a lot. I always tried to be helpful and so I used my knowledge and to tutored kids the subjects,(no comma) they had difficulties inwith.

Since the school was project based, we had many project works to complete. It opened me a new doorway to a world of creativity and cooperation; whereas many projects were team ones. Timing, meeting with teammates and putting together ideas is a great deal of work. It may seem easy, but in reality each one of us is different and has different suggestions and views.

Not always there is a person to help you when you need it the most. Choosing going alone also means to overcome our own fear of being alone and the fact not being accepted by others. Now it was up to me to choose the right people to be friends with. Before I found those people, I was of course mistaken, but with pride I can say I found some lifetime friendships.

During the exchange year I learnt to be open-minded and always smiling person with positive attitude. DespiteDespite is not the right word here me being positive, smilingI think you mean smiley and helpful, most of the kids at high school liked me and it resulted at prom, where I was elected to be a prom princess.

Yet I stand on my own feet and I am chasing my dreams. I found my passion in travelling and getting to know people from various countries. I want to learn about new countries and relations between them that is why I know international relations is the path I want to follow

Graduate / Successful completion of master degree and Griffith's master's program is integral to my goals [4]

Being brought up in a developing country like Pakistan has already made me conscious about the environment and sustainability issues (. ) andI have always beenhas always made me concerned about with the environmental issues related to urbanization and human population growth. While living in Thailand, I learned how the urban structure, land use, traffic jams and water drainage has been changing ( "has been changing" sounds weak to me) the environment in the past few years. This is undoubtedly one of the motivations for studying in a developed country as Australia.

Ex. While living in Thailand, I learned about the negative effects of urban structure, land use, traffic jams and water drainage on the environment

More significantly, that Pakistan is a developing country has generated various weaknesses in urban and infrastructure system which are illogical comprehension planning and zoning, traffic jams, downgrading of urban road and environmental pollution<-- This needs a lot of work . Thus, it is undoubtedly that after completing the Master program in Australia, I will be able to record much more tools in urban planning and certain level of knowledge in society management which shall create opportunity and confidence necessary to work and contribute to the innovation of my region.