Ok so this is my first part of the essay for UCF- tell me what you think
prompt: how has your family history, culture and environment influenced who you are?
"As I got off the airplane I realized what I was getting into..." (UCF ESSAY)
ESSAY FOR UCF- FINISHED
ok so this are my two topics, i talk about the first one in the first three paragraphs and the second one after that.
1. how has your family history, culture and environment influenced who you are?
2. if there has been some obstacle or bumb in the road in your academic or persnal life, please explain circumstances
please tell me if i have grammatical errors and tense errors :) and tell me what you think, is really importnat to me :) thankssss
As I got off the airplane I realized what I was getting into, the people around me were speaking a language that I did not understand. The heat surrounding me was interminable and suffocating and my eyes were watery from leaving my home. I was lost and did not want to be there. I missed my family and friends and mostly as I asked myself the question, where do I belong?
This question was probably the hardest one to answer in my adolescence; I did not belong in Venezuela because I wasn't there. Yet I did not belong in Weston because I didn't have much in common with the people I encountered.
Once a person is out of your country of origin they become a person of the world rather an inhabitant of their homeland. I saw situations and circumstances with a different perspective while still attaining wisdom difficult to understand at my age. I became one that immigrates and I stop being part of a single culture, I become an open book in which people can color in, I became a mixture of folklore and cultures. I realized that there is nothing more exciting than to keep experiencing, that rush that you get when the comfort zone is destroyed, when a human being is capable of traveling and experiencing.
As a result I realized that people minds and cultures fascinated me, this experience has made me the person that I am today and made me realize that I have a strong desire to major in a field in social sciences.
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration". Fear is constructed block by block, first one wall than the other until the point that it has become a cube which becomes rather impossible to destruct.
My fears started my first day of school in the United States. I suddenly felt incompetent. I started putting limits on myself. When the cube was built around me I couldn't hold it anymore, I had to get out. That's when I started focusing on high school, I got good grades and went from a simple class like English Skills to AP English and I devoted myself to understanding and studying the best that I could for every test. I would use the dictionary for every word that I didn't understand and I would translate whole books and charts for new vocabulary. I also started reading out loud in class, without the worry of people misjudging me since I did not care, I was here to learn and I had the same capacity that they did.
Little by little I realized that if I wanted to achieve a goal there were thousands of ways that it was possible and that our attitudes are controlled only by us and our will is what makes the difference.
I hope to bring to the UCF community the lessons acquired from this experience, to teach people that hard work and determination pays off.
prompt: how has your family history, culture and environment influenced who you are?
"As I got off the airplane I realized what I was getting into..." (UCF ESSAY)
ESSAY FOR UCF- FINISHED
ok so this are my two topics, i talk about the first one in the first three paragraphs and the second one after that.
1. how has your family history, culture and environment influenced who you are?
2. if there has been some obstacle or bumb in the road in your academic or persnal life, please explain circumstances
please tell me if i have grammatical errors and tense errors :) and tell me what you think, is really importnat to me :) thankssss
As I got off the airplane I realized what I was getting into, the people around me were speaking a language that I did not understand. The heat surrounding me was interminable and suffocating and my eyes were watery from leaving my home. I was lost and did not want to be there. I missed my family and friends and mostly as I asked myself the question, where do I belong?
This question was probably the hardest one to answer in my adolescence; I did not belong in Venezuela because I wasn't there. Yet I did not belong in Weston because I didn't have much in common with the people I encountered.
Once a person is out of your country of origin they become a person of the world rather an inhabitant of their homeland. I saw situations and circumstances with a different perspective while still attaining wisdom difficult to understand at my age. I became one that immigrates and I stop being part of a single culture, I become an open book in which people can color in, I became a mixture of folklore and cultures. I realized that there is nothing more exciting than to keep experiencing, that rush that you get when the comfort zone is destroyed, when a human being is capable of traveling and experiencing.
As a result I realized that people minds and cultures fascinated me, this experience has made me the person that I am today and made me realize that I have a strong desire to major in a field in social sciences.
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration". Fear is constructed block by block, first one wall than the other until the point that it has become a cube which becomes rather impossible to destruct.
My fears started my first day of school in the United States. I suddenly felt incompetent. I started putting limits on myself. When the cube was built around me I couldn't hold it anymore, I had to get out. That's when I started focusing on high school, I got good grades and went from a simple class like English Skills to AP English and I devoted myself to understanding and studying the best that I could for every test. I would use the dictionary for every word that I didn't understand and I would translate whole books and charts for new vocabulary. I also started reading out loud in class, without the worry of people misjudging me since I did not care, I was here to learn and I had the same capacity that they did.
Little by little I realized that if I wanted to achieve a goal there were thousands of ways that it was possible and that our attitudes are controlled only by us and our will is what makes the difference.
I hope to bring to the UCF community the lessons acquired from this experience, to teach people that hard work and determination pays off.
