Personal Narrative: How France Changed My Life

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Three years ago something happened to me which changed my life. In 2012 I was living in France , in the country in a small village of about 260 people. I was not really hanging out with my friends because they were all living far away from me. I used to go to a boarding school where we were only 300 students, the girls and the boys were separate, any electronic things were prohibited ( phone , ipod , computer … ) , the lights were shut down around ten pm. During our free periods we had to study and do our homework. When I came here my whole life changed. There are 2500 students in my high school and thousands people in the town of Scarsdale. I developed a new way to work and to do my homework.. The biggest problem that I faced was the language, and the subsequent inability to make friend.I did not know any English before I came here.

When I came first, I had no friends and I am the type of person who hates being alone. It has been very hard for me to make friends here, I …show more content…

I did not want to accept that now I was living in America. I tried to go back to France and to get into the French American school of New York but my parents forced me to wait util next year to make the decision between staying here or going back to France. I fought with my parents about it everyday. At the end of my freshman year I went to a meeting with the French American school of New York and they offered me a place in their school and I also got a place in my old school. But at that time I was starting to make friends and I did not want to change school again, so I decided to give it more time. At the beginning of my sophomore year I decided to accept the fact that I was living here in America and that i would stay at SHS and since I made that decision my life completely