Mysteries Behind Foreign Schools

Mysteries Behind Foreign Schools

I was born in Brazil and actually naturalized as a Brazilian, but I will never forget my roots as a person of Chinese ancestry. I have spent most of my life in Brazil and never went anywhere else besides immigrating to United States for a better education. As a Chinese born Brazilian, my parents always encouraged me to learn my native language, which is Chinese. As an adolescent school is where I spent most of my time, not studying but socializing with my friends. After immigrating to the United States, I realized that schools in Brazil were not that outstanding compared to the great schools in the United States. Also it was not easy to adapt a new culture and changes in the United States.

English was the biggest struggle when I started to attend school in the United States. For my first year of school in this new country, I felt that my whole life changed into a mystery world because I had to explore every little thing with a dictionary in my backpack while in class. I was often quiet the whole time at school and rarely understood the point of what my teacher was talking about, like I did not know what I had for homework. Since no one spoke Portuguese, I was forced to use Chinese since no one spoke Portuguese in Chicago because I had Chinese classmates, and that are the only way I can communicate with them. For that reason, now I can speak fluently with Chinese people using my second language Chinese.

In addition, socializing with new people at school in the United States was not quite as similar as in Brazil. Basically when I was in Brazil, ninety nine percent of my friends were Brazilian, and I barely had contact with Chinese people in school because there were not many Chinese as I had expected in Brazil. But Brazilians were more open and energized in soccer all the time, most of them spent more time in playing soccer than in school. In the United States students were completely the opposite, school was the number one position in their heart because without education they can not do anything in this country and it was easy to socialize with new people because the most important thing is this country is team work, so they are willing to meet new people each day.

Furthermore, the entertainment after school in the United States was not as I had expected it to be. In Brazil people did not care about school that much, all they wanted is to be a soccer player star since Brazil is known as the best soccer country in the world. Weekends is what all Brazilians expect for watching the soccer game either on television or live, and that is what I did when I was in Brazil. However, in the United States, I realized that neither Chinese nor American people like soccer at all, but they liked football and basketball instead. Therefore ping pong was one of the sports in common that I still can play it in the United States.

My families are the ones who brought me on this mysterious adventure in a new world. After immigrating to the United States, I realized that this place was a right choice for me, and I finally got used to this new country. United States gave me an entire new life after adapting in Schools and learning this new culture. I am extremely thankful for my parents for giving me the opportunity to learn this new culture and three completely different languages- Portuguese, Chinese and English, and this can give me a great future life in the United States.