Revision: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 that concerns English. Because my parents don’t know English, they only work 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 two Charlie cards in the subway station. So I rode my bike to the subway station, and then found the conductor. I told him that I wanted to buy two Charlie cards for one month. So he taught me how to operate. I finished it and back home. After a month, my father called me again, so I went to the subway station and I found the conductor again because I forgot how to operate it. He told me I can’t put the $100 into the machine. So 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, I can now buy the Charlie card by myself. But also, when I have a sudden problem, I must think out a method to solve it independently.

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 also 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 China. In America, in the physics or chemistry classes, the students do the labs by themselves. But in China, I didn’t have that experience. We just watched the teacher do the lab. Then we reported what we saw. 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 on the test.

In China, if the students want to have an independent life, it is only in college. Because they must go to another city for 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 things for my parents which they did for me in China. Independence seems to be usual to the American, but it is an experience for the Chinese. So I am very happy to be independent at this time.