college essay:Change and Challenge

When the earth turns around the sun, time passes and life on earth grows.

In my life, until eight months ago, I didn’t know what independence was and what it felt like. Eight months ago, I was still in china. In china my parents would do anything and everything for me. When my family came to America, I felt independent for the first time. In eight months, I became an independent person from a child under my parents’ shelter. In my family, it is my duty to do anything which concerned about English. Because my parents don’t know English, ever only a little, so they only worked in Chinatown.

Through the eight months lived in America, I found that independence was the most important thing. One day, my father called me to buy tow Charlie card in the subway station. So I ride mi bike to the subway station, then found out the conductor. I told him that I wanted buy two Charlie card for one month. So he did some operation and taught me how to operate. Then I finished it and back home. After a month, my father called me again, so I went to the subway station, and I found out the conductor again, because I forgot how to operate it. I just saw once last month and never operated, so I can’t remember. When he operated and asked me put the money into the machine, he told me I can’t put the par value of 100 into the machine. So I thought a method. I went to the CVS and used the $100 to buy a phone card, so I got the change. I went back to the subway station, and finished my job. After that time, I can buy the Charlie card by myself. Not only the first time I went to buy the card need the brave and independent, but also when you had the sudden problem, you must think out a method to solve it independent.

When I came to high school, I found an interesting thing. It was the people in the high school are more like adults more than teenagers. The students in high school were taller than in china. In America, students in high school work part time jobs after school, but in china, it is impossible. Because in china, the students in high school have a lot of school work to do, so they don’t have much time to do the other things. Parents don’t let their children to do much other things expect study.

I also found the teaching in America is different from Chinese. In America, the physics or chemistry class is the student can do the labs by themselves. But in china, I didn’t have that experience. We just see the teacher doing in the lab room. Then we report what we can see or what we can smell. In America, we often have many projects to do by ourselves. So we must search for knowledge in library or online. But this is also impossible in china, because the teachers only see what you got in the test.

In china, if the students want to have a life independent only in college. Because they must go to the other city for their college, so they have an independent life. I am a lucky person for came to the America. So I can become an independent person so fast, and now I can do anything by myself. Sometimes I do something to my parents which like what they did to me in china. I felt was the father and my parents were my children when I helped them to do something. Independent, it seems to very usual to the American, but it is an expensive experience for the Chinese. So I am very happy to independent at this time.