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Journey to America

Life is a beautiful journey but it is not always easy for everyone, as everyone individual has to take his own special journey. It is either a good journey or a journey full of sadness and sorrow; however, everyone should see the positive side in his or her life to live with happiness and optimism. As we say in my country, “A person who doesn’t enjoy his life will have a short life “. My journey of America has just been started and there is still long way to go, however, in this essay I have illustrated the ridiculous and difficult moments of my short American journey. My journey of America started soon after graduation from high school, as from next day of my graduation I started thinking of my future that I would have a bright future or a bad future, which would make me, suffer. After high school, I applied for Kuwait University of engineering, and I was accepted. Nevertheless, when I started the quarter at my new university in Kuwait, I had a feeling from inside that this was not my destiny; it was not going to work out for me.

Therefore, I applied to the scholarship program, got the opportunity to study in America, primarily because of my excellent GPA that helps me in studying abroad. After getting the opportunity of studying abroad, I was extremely happy because I got the opportunity of discovering the new phase of my life, and learn the ways of leading life without the help of close ones. However, I was sad because I have to leave my love ones particularly (family and friends), and leave the place where I spent the most beautiful moments of my childhood growing up, thus, I knew that this journey would not be easy, and would be full of challenges that I have to overcome on my own.

Now for completion of my education I had to choose the state that is known of providing excellent education. My father asked his friend, who studied in the United States of America before, and he recommended that I study in California as it is the biggest state of the United States of America with numerous touring places, and well known universities that have changed the life style of uncountable students. After gathering necessary information, I booked my ticket and finally arrived to America.

I was strangled with numerous problems soon after lending in America but out of several issues the primary issue was inability of speaking English language. I was not able to speak English but fortunately, for me in the airport there were lot of Arabic people who helped me in getting through the airport procedure and it took two weeks before I was able to understand Native Americans. The second difficulty that I came across during my first night in USA was that I could not sleep because I would usually see my mother and father every night before I went to sleep and say good night to them by kissing their hands to show a kind of respect for them.

Not having them near frightened me, caused many problems for me and made me think going back to Kuwait. The other effect on me that this journey had was making me able to depend on myself, which changed my life style a lot and made me think ten times before attempting to do anything. This journey has truly made me a very wise man and I now think twice before doing something.

However, now I am able to overcome these difficulties, except sometimes I feel what they call “homesickness". Homesickness is the feeling of missing being at home and anyone who has recently moved, or who is on vacation (especially away from family) may feel it. It is very normal to experience homesickness for many people; homesickness can lead to some great advantages in their new situations and for others, it can become very rough. In general, though, homesickness is something everyone experiences from time to time and is a good motivator for change. I personally think that it has helped me a lot by encouraging me to work even harder to compensate for missing my family so much. Whenever I feel lonely, I take out my books and study to alleviate my feeling of homesickness.

On the other hand, until now, I have learned a lot from these difficult experiences of my journey and my learning process will continue until my journey is not completed. Some of the positive lessons I learned are, firstly I learned the skills of completing my task like (cooking, buying groceries, I learned the importance of time, and others) on my own, and learned that I do not need to depend on others for the accomplishment of my daily task.

Moreover, after these experiences has made me stronger, has increase my confidence, and has reduced my fear of things, further, I know give hundred percent for the completion of my task, and never surrender because if by surrendering I would not be able to accomplish my goals. In addition to this, my friends and my family are the biggest motivation for me as they have always encouraged me, inspired me, during conversation, and the most positive thing of this journey was interaction with new friends that are facing similar situation.

Thus in the end I would like to conclude that during this short journey I have so far come across with numerous difficulties and problems, but these problems are start up cost of my bright future. Moreover, during the course of this journey I learned the importance self-awareness, this journey has increased by knowledge, increased my confidence.