My Academic Struggles

There are so many struggles I have experienced in my life. Some of them were easy to go through, others were challenging and hard, but still got through it. Some of the hardest struggles that I overcame with my family was literacy and poverty. Literacy is the ability to read or write. I was illiterate my childhood years until my country started developing to build schools, hospitals and etc. That’s when I started to read and to write the alphabets. Education has changed my life. It has given me knowledge and hope so I can achieve my aspirations in the future. If it wasn’t for education, I wouldn’t have been who I am today. Education is the key to success. It opens doors for people from different backgrounds. Without education, there’s no knowledge …show more content…
Resources such as library, books, computer, and electricity. We also did not have enough teachers in school that could teach us so we could gain knowledge. It was hard to learn. Due to that, I had to force myself to learn because I had just my mom to support me and my mom didn’t even know how to write. There was only one school in my town. The name of the school was Great Emmanuel international school. This school was about 4(four) miles away from my house. We didn’t have a bus or a car so I had to wake up very early in the morning like 4 o’clock to go to school. I had to do that every day so I could get education and be literate. One night, my dad called to tell us that we are coming to America. I was very happy and surprised because this was what I have dreamed all …show more content…
I was trying to fit in to the environment. I could not speak English in school as I could today because I was not fluent. Every time I spoke, it was a little hard for people to understand. Some people were even laughing at my English. I started school here(America) as a 9th grader. I did not go to middle school because of my age. My mom and sister couldn’t understand or speak English either so I had to work really hard and help them while learning it. My freshman year was not going the way I wanted it to go.