A Learning Experience Analysis

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Writing is one of my worst fears, especially in English. I am sitting in front of a computer right now and my mind is blank, I don't know what to write. I thought about letting my son who is in college help me write this essay, but he was strongly opposed to it, he wanted me to take this as a learning experience. I've convinced myself that this is my first step into my dream, I must write this essay myself and learn from it.

April 1993 was the first time I've ever been on a plane. I took a flight from Guangxi, China into the Big Apple, New York City, I was supposed to board a later plane that would arrive into Boston, however I missed that plane. Fortunately, I was accompanied by my uncle who let me stay at his house in New York. The next day,
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America was a shock to me, I missed the family and friends that I've left behind in China. The next day, my sister brought me into an admissions office to register for high school. I had to take an admissions test that comprised of math and English. I understood most of the math portion of the test, however once it came to the English section, my mind gave in. I sat there struggling to formulate a word let alone a sentence. The teacher that was proctoring the exam later asked me if I can write the 26 English letters, I couldn't. I could only write about 15 letters and that was it. As a result, I was put into an English as a second or foreign language (ESL) class. The class itself was very diverse with students from every country you could imagine. Everyone there in the class seemed to already English except for me. I felt like a nobody and I felt dumb, I didn't know a single word in English, everything in the English language looked like hieroglyphics. I put a lot of my time and dedication into school, my first step was learning the 26 letters of the English Alphabet. From there on, I began putting these alphabets together to form simple three-letter