Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
My parents left China to come to the United States several years before I was born to create a better life for their future children. Being a first generation Chinese-American, I have many family members who reside in China and Hong Kong. In the summer of 2010, my parents saved up enough money to let my brother and and myself travel to China by ourselves. We were to live with my mother's family in China for almost two months. Being as immature as I was, I didn't appreciate the time away from my friends for the summer. However I am forever thankful now to have gone on that trip. It made allowed me to realize how much my mother has sacrificed for my brother and me.
When I arrived in China, I was immediately homesick. The weather was sticky and hot unlike my home city's "perfect weather" in San Diego, California. I wasn't prepared for the culture shock either. My grandfather knew that my brother and I were uncomfortable and made an effort to make us feel at home. He took time out of his day to take us out to explore the town. We went to the rural area where my mom and her siblings grew up. I never realized until that moment how many luxuries I considered standard.
I always knew my mother missed her family in China. She had only visited her homeland once since she moved to the United States. She was unable to travel with my brother and me due to the fact that she still had to support our family here. My grandparents had health problems and my mother would check up on them by calling regularly. My mother would try to help by sending painkillers overseas. When all of that wasn't working, she urged my grandparents and her brother and sister to apply for visas to come to the United States. She wanted them to have a better life and be able to find the right medical treatments. She couldn't do anything for them because a plane ticket was not an option for her. I desperately wanted my family in China to come to America to make everyone happy but I wasn't able to make a difference.
A week before school started, my mother got a call around midnight. It was my uncle. Hearing my mother on the phone, I knew it was bad news. She told me that my grandfather passed away from a heart attack. Someone that I had seen only a week before was no longer here. It felt surreal to me and I cried with my mom into the early morning.
Going to China and visiting my mother's family made me realize how much my mother has done to give me a better life. She moved away from her family to a whole different country. She didn't speak the language and only made it through using connections from old friends who had moved to the United States before her. She devoted everything for her future children and now that I have realized this, I wouldn't be the same person without her. She is stronger than anyone I know. She motivates me to do well in school and allows me to strive to be able to be as good of a person as her. In the future, I want to be able to do what she has done for my brother and me. I want to be successful to be able to provide her what she didn't have back in China and allow her to enjoy life without any stresses.
My parents left China to come to the United States several years before I was born to create a better life for their future children. Being a first generation Chinese-American, I have many family members who reside in China and Hong Kong. In the summer of 2010, my parents saved up enough money to let my brother and and myself travel to China by ourselves. We were to live with my mother's family in China for almost two months. Being as immature as I was, I didn't appreciate the time away from my friends for the summer. However I am forever thankful now to have gone on that trip. It made allowed me to realize how much my mother has sacrificed for my brother and me.
When I arrived in China, I was immediately homesick. The weather was sticky and hot unlike my home city's "perfect weather" in San Diego, California. I wasn't prepared for the culture shock either. My grandfather knew that my brother and I were uncomfortable and made an effort to make us feel at home. He took time out of his day to take us out to explore the town. We went to the rural area where my mom and her siblings grew up. I never realized until that moment how many luxuries I considered standard.
I always knew my mother missed her family in China. She had only visited her homeland once since she moved to the United States. She was unable to travel with my brother and me due to the fact that she still had to support our family here. My grandparents had health problems and my mother would check up on them by calling regularly. My mother would try to help by sending painkillers overseas. When all of that wasn't working, she urged my grandparents and her brother and sister to apply for visas to come to the United States. She wanted them to have a better life and be able to find the right medical treatments. She couldn't do anything for them because a plane ticket was not an option for her. I desperately wanted my family in China to come to America to make everyone happy but I wasn't able to make a difference.
A week before school started, my mother got a call around midnight. It was my uncle. Hearing my mother on the phone, I knew it was bad news. She told me that my grandfather passed away from a heart attack. Someone that I had seen only a week before was no longer here. It felt surreal to me and I cried with my mom into the early morning.
Going to China and visiting my mother's family made me realize how much my mother has done to give me a better life. She moved away from her family to a whole different country. She didn't speak the language and only made it through using connections from old friends who had moved to the United States before her. She devoted everything for her future children and now that I have realized this, I wouldn't be the same person without her. She is stronger than anyone I know. She motivates me to do well in school and allows me to strive to be able to be as good of a person as her. In the future, I want to be able to do what she has done for my brother and me. I want to be successful to be able to provide her what she didn't have back in China and allow her to enjoy life without any stresses.
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