436 M.J. (China, Age16): English

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M.J

Age 16, china

 ‘I am proud to be a chinese’

I was came from the world most popular country China, is in Asia, the population is 1.35 billions.I was born in Fujian, China, it is a big and beautiful city. People in here speak mandarin, in here people are friendly, at afternoon most of the people are in home, but at night there will be a lot of people in the street, at street there are many delicious food, its pretty good. I was lived with my grandmother, grandfather, sister and my mother, my father go to United States when I was 6 years old. I was lived in city, but when holiday come we go back to our home town. We eat together, my grandmother was very good chef. After the holiday we go back to the city. In China I wake up  in 6am and I go to school in 7am, in school the teacher are very scary, they will hit you if you do bad things, if you don’t do homework they will hit you too.

I have a lot of friends in china, after school we going to somewhere to play we played card game and we doing homework together, at the holidays we played tennis at the park. In China we know a lot of places. Me and my sister was lived with my grand father, and grandfather, my mother was lived with my grandpa and grandma, she come to see us in the holiday, she take us to McDonald and KFC, some time she take us to shoping.

In Chinese New Year there are many fun things, me and my friend were going to store and buy fireworks, and we play at the night, at night after I finished the dinner with my family, then I go to the park and play fireworks with my friend its very beautiful, then we go home, I sit down with my family, we watch Chinese New Year show together. At night its very hard to get into sleep, theres many people play firework whole night, its like a thunder, its very loud, so I played card with my friend and watched cartoons all night long.

At the summer, school is almost over, we have to take test, the test is very hard, if we failed we have to stay one more year, I remember that I got 75, if you got 60 you pass the test, the most important part was the essay, each year the essay will be different. When the school is over, the teacher give us a lot of homework they give us a book, and theirs many question in the book, is about 20 page, multiple choice and essay, you have to write about what did you do in the summer.

In 2009, my mother tell tell me and my sister that we going to United States in september, one day she take us to the hospital to take shout, in September me and my family were in the airport, and I sawed my mother cried, I was missed my friend. It is my first time to take airplane in the airplane I look out the windows I sawed cloud everything is white, I was scared. In Beijing airport we wait about two hour to take the plane to US I was so excited, in the plane it was very boring ,almost 13 hour.

We in US in the afternoon we got out the airplane, then we line up, then they take all the chinese to a room, after three hour we get out and take our package, I was so excited, when we go out my father take us to home, at the night I can’t get in to sleep, so I play wake up and play my computer. After two weeks my mother take me to school called Ps.94, in the class I was very nervous is hard to understand what they saying, I was lucky that  their some chinese in my class. In home my mom take to mcdonald it was my first time to ate cheeseburger it tasted like nothing, but its good.

After two month my mom take us to North Carolina, there's no chinese people in the class all they speak is english. At home all I do is homework and play computer, it’s very boring, so I started play basketball with other people  they were very pretty at it, and they teach me how to play, and started play every after school. After almost two years we go back to New York, my mom take me to middle school, I was 7th grade at that time, in my class theirs many chinese in the class only one student is from another country, is hard to learn english at that time and I forgot all the things that I learned in the North Carolina.

I like to stay in here now because I have a lot of friend and the school was not difficult. In here it does not cost a lot of money to buy things, I want to go to the college after I finish the high school, and find a good job.