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Dalal AL Mohsen

In this reflection essay, I will write about my thesis paper, the difficulty that I face during thesis 1 and thing 2, the experience I did, and what I learn from this experience. The first difficult that I had was choosing the topic, I was very confused which topic is the best. I was thinking about a lot of topics such as, teachers, classroom, leaders, and students. Than one day, I saw a YouTube video about South Korean students; how they motivated and they had the best education in the world. So, I cam with the idea of my topic which is Student Motivation in Saudi Arabia and South Korean students. Also, My personal reason for choose this topic is that the perceptions some people have of Saudi Students is that they are lazy with poor attitudes toward education even though, our government spends a lot of money to improve education. When compared to other countries our educational system is not rated high. However, I am one of 110 thousand Saudi students studying in the US. We are interested and motivated to gain knowledge even if it means studying abroad and away from our country and families. So, I looking in this topic to know if what I heard was true. The reason of comparing Saudi Arabia to South Korea is that South Korea is always rated very high in international rankings. Also. South Korea’s government spends a lot of money on education. The second difficult that I face was finding resources for both countries. I had difficult time to find articles have the same topic and same student’s level to compere. Also, It was very hard to find articles about Saudi Arabia students and most of them were about Second Lange female students. I did not have many options to looked for or compered. Also, some articles were disagree in some point and the information were different. I took a long time when I stated to write to organize my thought and my understanding from these articles. First, I read each article than summary and collect the important information. Writing and organize the paper was very challenging for me and I think with out your help I could not do it. Most of the time I felt sad and want to give up grammar and word choices was hard. Also, the refrensise and situation was very hard. Present in front group of people was the second difficult that I had. I do not use to speak and speech so, I take long time and practice many time to learn how to present well. I did the practice in the camped first time and there were many areas need improve like voice level, self-confidence, and eye contact because when I was practicing the presentation, I was very anxious and embarrassed. I was needed to emphasize some important words, speak more loudly, slowly and clearly. I was needed to practice more and more to pronounce the word correctly, make more eye contact. However, after practicing, I did better in the presentation. I did well in eye contact and voice level. Even though, I was very nervous and I read very fast. And, I was not expected the questions, which I had so, I did not understand and did not know what to say. Presenting in Mobil was the best experience that I have. There were many people I do not know and I was very sacred .How ever, now I am very happy to have this experience and I am proud of my self.