195 Na (China, Age 15): English

                                                         Na’s Memoir

                                                              China,15

China,one of the oldest country in the world,and that’s where my home at. When I was in China,I live in a village that’s pretty much connect to the city,if we want to go to the city and buy something,we can just walk for 5 min and arrives. The land behind our village was undeveloped mountain and forest. In China almost every students need to spend extra time in study,like go to school on sunday or do a lot of extra work. When I was 2nd grade,my father came to New York,my father always need to go to other city for he’s work,so I’m not surprise for him just disappear for few weeks and come back after,but this time he disappear for too long ti/me,when I ask about it,my mother just tell me he went very far away. She think I’m too young for all of this and at that age,I wasn’t like to think,so I’m not asking for more.

            When I was 5th grade,my mom begin to tell me how good U.S are,how good school in U.S are,and I get attract by the second one. She said the school in U.S only count late when arrive school after eight or nine,in China we need to arrive school at seven and half or you will count late. She also said school in U.S finish at two or three,in China,school finish at almost five. After all that,she tell me my father was in New York and we will be there soon. She said we decide go to NY because we have a lot of relatives already in NY,and they said it’s better than in China. When I hear that,I’m a little sad and scare because I like to living in China and the only language I have is Chinese.In China we have English class but I never get seriouse on it because I think it’s useless. I’m living in China!What’s point of learning English?My English teacher get very mad because that,she talk to my parent a lot of time,but when I talk about why should I learn English,they can’t give a rational reason.

            When I finish 6th grade,which is the elementary school in China,we move to U.S,it’s not difficult but it’s boring,we took plane to Beijing and take another plane to NY,but it’s painful.Almost 14 hours,I just sit on plane and have nothing to do and I fell a little dizzy. Only thing I can do is look the cloud outside.There’s a little TV behind each site but I don’t feel like to use it.

            After 14 hours of torture,we arrive New York. My father get us back to our home in New York and all the thing I want was sleep,After I sleep enough,I wanna go out and take a breath of the air in U.S,when I was out,I think I was in a dream:I’m still in China. There’re Chinese walking around,a lot ot shop/store with Chinese. After I back to home my parents tell me here is 8AV,there’re a lot of Chinese like to group near 8AV.

            I came here during summer,so I can normally go to school.After all the procedures,I meet my first school at New York,it’s a small school with only one playground,when I got in my class,it’s full Chinese,I was nervous about my English but there”s nothing to worried about.I meet a lot of new friends there and they are very nice. How school in U.S work is different in China,in China we just sit in one classroom and wait for teachers to came in,but in U.S,we switch with teachers,teachers sit on classroom wait for us.

            In 9th grade,a lot of people from different high school came to our class and talk about their school. I have a lot of friends is pretty new to New York and have not much knowlogy about it,so mine as well just choose one school from them.