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Personal Essay On My Personal Experience

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Have you ever gone through a personal experience that has impacted your life? A personal experience relates to the private aspects of a person 's life. In Everyone’s life there’s become an up come of a personal experience. However, my personal experience that had a major impact on my life was, moving from Panama to the United States. Not only was moving from Panama to the United States an experience, learning another language was too. Also, attending a school with an unfamiliar environment played a huge role on my experience. The first challenge of my new experience was moving to the United States from Panama. I believe this was a new experience because I got to explore a variety of new things. The area in Panama compared to the United States …show more content…

With not knowing any English and being in an unknown environment of people therefore, I struggled with high school. My first year of high school I attended a public school. This was a huge change because I attended a private school back in Panama. The private schools in Panama are different than what they are here in Virginia. For Instance, in Panama the dress code is different from here. Panama private schools wore uniforms that insist on wearing a skirt, t-shirt, long socks, and black dress shoes. While here in the United States you can wear appropriate clothing. It took approximately 9 months for me to be comfortable enough to hold conversation with other individual’s. While being the age of 16 I believe that took a deep challenge when it came to learning English. This is so because, usually learning a new language becomes much easier when learned at a younger age. Being taught a certain way on how to speak Spanish vs English really throws a toll of confusion on you. The difference between Spanish and English is that Spanish has nouns that uses gender, special character letters, sounds to be made, and sentence structure can be made different. Overall while going to high school my first year of moving to America I grew a tendency to learn English in a certain amount of

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