Personal Narrative: My Personal Challenges

My personal challenges

My early childhood memories are composed of different experiences, the heaven of motherly love and the hell of a terrible challenge. At the age of 11, for the first time in my life I boarded an airplane in Beijing and went to Hungary, of all places. I still remember the first words that came out of my mouth: “I want to go home!”. Although the country is small, it taught me the big picture of who I am, what I like and who I am likely going to be.

Standing in front of the diamond shaped mirror, I seem to catch sight of the scars that cover my body. These scars are all deeply imprinted in my memory. I attended a public Hungarian elementary school during my first year abroad. I was self-abased about my ability to speak

It 's my belief that English is the most important language in the world, therefore I enrolled in American International School of Budapest for my further education. I quickly regretted the decision. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn 't get ahead. IB HL Physics became one of the biggest challenges I couldn 't cope with. No matter how many hours I spent studying or how much help I asked for from my teacher and classmates, my test scores remained low. Then, at one point, my teacher suggested that I should drop from the IB program. This brought out something within me I didn 't realized was there. I knew, without ant doubt, that I just can 't quit, no matter what. So I doubled my efforts and applied different strategies. I paid attention to all the small details, from taking good notes to understanding well the concepts, from correcting the quizzes to asking more questions. Gradually I improved. This was another invaluable lesson: when faced with failure, I will not volunteer to be a loser. When faced with a challenge, working long hours is not enough, you need to be creative and explore different solutions. I also realized that physics, as well as other subjects where one plus one is always automatically two, is not something I will pursue further. I like studying problems from different perspectives and coming up with unorthodox solutions. I think business and entrepreneurship are where my potential can be fully