[BC] PROMPT DRAFT #1

Hey!! This is my first biweekly post, and this is also a personal statement. I am welcome everyone to help me improve because I am really bad at writing. Thanks! XD

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.

From a familiar environment to a diverse foreign country, I had to adapt to a whole new way of living. My usual friends had no longer my company, freeways no longer consisted of only two lanes, and going to school was no longer within walking distance. Receiving my education in English was a huge obstacle as I was still learning the language, but it also taught me to push myself harder when it needed. When I first started school, i was reticent to participate in class because I could not understand what the teacher or the classmates were saying. Acknowledge the fact that I was a new member of a completely different and a multifarious community, I felt the need to stand out as a Chinese American and was determined to expand my knowledge beyond the English language.

I was thirteen years old want the news of my immigrating to the United States reached me. Since I immigrating to the United States, I knew my life would be different from my parents who have been spending more than 3 decades in China. Both of my parents had only up to high school education and my father is barely know how to speak English. My mother, who is learning English right now with twice as much of pressure compare to her work. My father is a regular worker who have barely earn enough money to support our family needed. Both of my parents needed to go to work that is far from our home, they send my younger brother and I to live with my aunt. I chose to live with my aunt because she can help me with daily homework and take care of her four ABC children, which known as American-born Chinese, so that I can communicate with them in order to improve my oral skill.

As I grew older, I began to understand the tremendous importance of seizing all my opportunities and pursuing a good education; this is related to my dream and the aspiration in my life. I like to help people and I can build a really good relationship between people. I became interested in dentistry because of my family history, one third of my family members have teeth problem, such as I broke my front left tooth in accident while I was playing with my brother in the playground. My grandmothers are both have missing teeth because they did not have enough Calcium and other reasons.  I understand suffering pain is the most terrible thing ever, so I would like to help people to fix their problem and I became interested in dentistry.

I want to make my parents proud and accomplish what they could not. I want to be able to provide for my own family in the future. Education is unquestionably important to me; it has instilled an efficient work ethic in me, as I constantly try me best in everything I do. I appreciate being given the opportunity to be in a diverse country. I will take this past with me and continue on with my education to make my father, my mother, my grandma, and my own family in their future very proud.